Pratheek

Unlike most young athletes eager to emulate big names in their discipline, Karnataka badminton player Sai pratheek Krishna Prasad idolizes Roger Federer.

Today’s column features pratheek and Tina Thomas, founders of a comic startup in Kochi

Unheralded Indian men's doubles pair of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Sai pratheek K moved into the second round even as majority of their compatriots suffered defeats at the German Open badminton tournament on Wednesday.

Mushtifund Aryaan Higher Secondary School’s pratheek Rebello, who has already cracked many national entrance tests, passed the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) with 660 marks the best-known score from Goa earning him an all-India rank of 189.

A young girl, Soumya pratheek, did a brave job when she along with two other social activists, Rachel Morgan and Manish Swarnkar, did a sting operation on some of the girls forced into prostitution at Forbesganj in Araria district last fortnight.

After beating the previous best scores held by Goans in various national entrance exams, Panaji-teenager pratheek Rebello has now outdone the earlier record at BITSAT. He has scored 426 out of 450. Raunak Sarkhardande had scored 411 in 2008, which remained unbeaten for nine years.

Naivedya Amarnani, a student of Mushtifund Aryaan Higher Secondary School, Cujira, has attained a score of 426 out of 450 at the BITSAT. Naivedya’s classmate (also from the same school), Deep Desai, is close behind with a score of 425.

Abhishek Yeligar weighed in with his experience to battle past Ayush R Shetty in the men’s singles final at the State badminton ch- ampionships here on Friday.

The young men's doubles pair of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Sai pratheek progressed to the second round with a straight game win on a disappointing day for Indian shuttlers at the Thailand Open Super 300. Ishaan and Sai ousted USA's Vinson Chiu and Joshua Yuan 21-18 21-12 in the opening round.

Two children met a watery grave in a river near Karvalu at Alevoor gram panchayat on Saturday.Police said that pratheek Nayak,8, and Karthik Nayak, 6, were missing since Saturday.

Four of a family, fell sick due to food poisoning at Jeppu Bappal in the city on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, the family, including Aravinda Rao,52, wife Prabhavathi,45, and sons Sourabh,20, and pratheek,18, went to sleep after having dinner.

The film is directed by debutant TS Satyajith

Vasco resident Rubiya Shaikh has bettered the best-known score from Goa at NEET(UG), results for which were announced on Friday, scoring 675 out of 720. The student of Cujira-based Mushtifund Aryaan higher secondary school has now set her sights on joining one of the top-ranked medical colleges in Delhi.

Aakarshi Kashyap and Priyanshu Rajawat are set to be picked for the upcoming Commonwealth Games and Asian Games respectively after emerging as winners in women's and men's singles at Badminton Association of India's (BAI) selection trials on Wednesday.

Kiran George will challenge Priyanshu Rajawat for the top spot in men's singles, while Aakarshi Kashyap will clash with Ashmita Chaliha to decide the women's singles winner in the BAI's national selection trials on Wednesday.

pratheek Rebello topped the batch with 98.33% for the Class X exam of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE).

After being ranked within the first 100 at IITJEE (Advance), pratheek Rebello has now cracked the entrance test to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with a rank of 86. Rebello, however, already has his mind set on pursuing engineering in the electrical stream at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.