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Time of India
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Singing contestkicks off on amelodious note
Lucknow: The much-anticipated LCWW Singing Contest 2025 commenced on Sunday with an impressive online inaugural session, marking the beginning of the fourth consecutive annual singing extravaganza organized by Lucknow Connection Worldwide (LCWW). The contest, which follows a hybrid model, will be conducted weekly in the online format, culminating in a grand offline finale in Lucknow in Nov. Over 60 talented contestants, including Lucknowites from across India and abroad, are competing in what promises to be a memorable musical journey. The inaugural episode was anchored by Rahul Pandey and Aiman Javed Farooqui. Singers Rashi Srivastava, Aman Azam, Neetu Srivastava, and Kumar Gaurav performed on the occasion. "Music connects hearts across borders, and this contest is our way of keeping the soul of Lucknow alive in every corner of the world where our members reside," founder of LCWW Sunil Misra said. Senior administrator Shoaib Quraishi said, "This platform not only celebrates musical talent but also strengthens the emotional bond that unites Lucknowites globally." Winners of the contest will be awarded cash prizes of over Rs 50,000.
The Hindu
01-07-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests inspects Visakhapatnam zoo
Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Rahul Pandey visited the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park here on Tuesday. He has enquired about the developmental activities undergoing in the zoo and appreciated the overall maintenance and management of the zoo. During the visit, Conservator of Forests, Visakhapatnam, Mohammad Diwan Mydeen, and Curator of the IGZP G. Mangamma have briefed him on various developmental initiatives undergoing at the zoo, its flora and fauna and upcoming projects aimed at enhancing visitor experience and conservation efforts along with animal enrichment. Mr Rahul Pandey has also visited the ongoing construction works at Squirrel Monkey, Birds of Prey & Duck aviary. He directed the officials to make more efforts on beautification and maintenance of animal enclosures to enhance the visitors' viewing experience. He also instructed to prepare a detailed estimation report for the renovation or repairs for the required enclosures in every section separately especially Zoo Aquarium, Jungle cats enclosure, Sloth bear enclosure & Red necked wallabies enclosure to get them completed through CSR funds.
Time of India
02-05-2025
- Time of India
Man thrashed after biker on wrong side rams car in Noida
Noida: A man was allegedly struck with a helmet during a road rage in Sector 64 after a motorcycle travelling in the wrong direction collided with his car on Thursday morning. The accused was later arrested. The altercation occurred while Rahul Pandey and his wife Nishta Ojha, residents of Sector 16B, were commuting to work in their car when their vehicle was hit by a motorcycle bearing Uttar Pradesh licence plates. You Can Also Check: Noida AQI | Weather in Noida | Bank Holidays in Noida | Public Holidays in Noida Pandey allegedly began to question the biker, Vishal Chaudhary, who hurled abuses at him. The dispute escalated, and Chaudhary allegedly threatened to kill him. He then repeatedly hit Pandey on the head with his helmet, causing the latter to suffer injuries. Ojha took Pandey to the hospital for treatment and filed a police complaint. A case was registered under BNS sections 281 (rash driving), 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and 351(2) (criminal intimidation). tnn
Business Insider
26-04-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Networking the right way can help make your own luck in your career, says this former Meta engineer
Rahul Pandey, former staff engineer at Meta, credits much of his career trajectory to good fortune. But you can still make your own luck — at least in part. "You can manufacture luck in the sense of being curious about the people and the opportunities around you," Pandey said on an episode of " The Developing Dev" podcast. Pandey's path through tech started right out of college, when he joined a startup run by one of his former professors at Stanford. From there, he bounced from Pinterest to Meta, where he eventually climbed to staff engineer before leaving to start Taro, a YC-backed startup that offers career coaching to software engineers. To line up those kinds of opportunities takes a degree of luck, Pandey acknowledged. But they're more likely to come if you develop a network — and do it by being genuine, he said. By reaching out on the basis of real curiosity and making sure you have something to share, you can avoid making a cold reach-out feel clinical. "Me doing a lot of the job hops in my career have come from just, again, being kind of in the know on — what are the people doing that I respect?" he said. "And so I think that can be a repeatable algorithm or repeatable process that's not dependent on luck. Just change your approach to networking or talking to people, and that's a really good way to manufacture luck." If your conversations feel stilted, Pandey suggests evaluating whether there's an equal balance of give-and-take. "I do think that one of the best ways to develop a relationship with someone is not just by asking a ton of questions or asking for mentorship," he said. "A really good way to develop a relationship is say, 'Hey, here's something I've worked on which might be interesting to you.'" Pandey said the strategy of "being thoughtful about what are you sharing" makes the speaker more likely to build productive relationships. "You create gravity," he said. "People gravitate toward you because they want to get your opinion on things, too. So it's like a two-way street." When first deciding to start his career at a fledgling company, Pandey said he felt it was a high-risk, high-reward option. On the one hand, "it could go really, really well," he said; but even in the worst case, it'd be a "good story to tell." "I felt like it was almost too good of a story to pass up. I could be one of 10,000 or 20,000 engineers in Big Tech if I go join Google or Microsoft or Meta — and I had received offers at all of them," Pandey said. "But then I felt like, okay, this is a story where I had this connection, relationship with the professor. He trusts me, I trust him, and it just feels like a Silicon Valley unique story." Pandey said he used a decision-making framework of thinking of his career paths being either a one-way or a two-way door. That helped him decide between gambling on a startup or going the more traditional (and usually more secure) route of signing on with a big-name company. "Most things in your career are two-way doors, in the sense that you try it out, you learn something, you experiment, and then you can always back out," he said. "You can always decide to leave the startup and then go to Big Tech if needed, so that was one consideration.'" Another consideration: Pandey had already taken on an internship with Meta the summer before his graduation and felt like he'd already earned a level of "approval" from Big Tech. Also important, he added, was the "often overlooked" storytelling potential of the riskier route. "The narrative that you can create about what you did, why you did it, and why it's interesting — that is incredibly powerful," Pandey said. He got a lot of mileage out of being able to describe his experience as an "enterprising young engineer" who "took a bet on a startup," he added. When you're on the precipice of a big career decision, Pandey suggested it could be useful to consider what might eventually be the better story. Those opportunities, he added, are typically the ones that allow you to meet more people and take on unique responsibilities. "One of the things I tell people, on Taro or just in general when I mentor people, is that if you have a choice between A and B, and you feel like A is the one which will give you exposure to more unique opportunity, unique people, unique stories — that's a really good argument to pick option A," Pandey said, "because it just will broaden your perspective and give you that storytelling ability."
Indian Express
23-04-2025
- Indian Express
Hathras college rape case: Principal held for criminal intimidation
Nearly a month after a 54-year-old professor of a government –aided college in Hathras was arrested for raping and sexually exploiting several woman students, police on Wednesday arrest the college principal on charges of criminal intimidation and dereliction of duty. Speaking to The Indian Express, Superintendent of Police (Hathras) Chiranjeev Nath Sinha said the investigators found that several complaints of sexual exploitation by the professor were made to the principal by women students. 'But he (the college principal) threatened them, accusing them of trying to defame the college. He also threatened the students of ruining their career. He not only scolded the victims, but also drove them out of his office,' the SP said. 'No action was taken by the principal even when he was informed about the videos the accused professor shot with the students and continued to promote him. When this matter first came to light in 2023 through an application, he disregarded the UGC rules and regulations on preventing sexual harassment and made a junior lecturer from the accused professor's department the chairman of the investigation committee. So, effectively, no action could be taken against the accused professor,' the SP said. 'Despite knowing about the sexual exploitation of the victims, the accused professor was made the chief proctor so that the accused could sexually harass the girls by putting mental pressure on them and the victims could not complain to any competent authority,' read an official statement issued by Hathras police. The accused professor was arrested from Prayagraj on March 19. He was booked for rape, and under the provision of the Information Technology Act. Hathras District Magistrate Rahul Pandey had earlier said that a committee comprising the Basic Sikhsha Adhikari, the Circle Officer, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and a woman tehsildar has been formed to probe the matter. 'They are finalizing the report and the report will be submitted soon,' Pandey told The Indian Express. 'The committee members went to college and spoke to students. When we received the complaint this time, it was along with evidence and indisputable,' he added.
