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Mint
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Tragic death! Groom dies of heart attack minutes after wedding ritual in Karnataka's Bagalkot
In a tragic incident, a groom in Karnataka's Bagalkote district collapsed and died moments after tying the knot, reported Udayavani. According to the report, the incident took place in Jamkhandi town of Bagalkot on Saturday afternoon, when Praveen and Pooja were getting married at Nandikeshwar Kalyana Mantapa. Praveen, son of Shreesha Kurani from Kumharahalli village, suddenly suffered a severe heart attack when he was preparing to climb the wedding stage to greet guests. He was a noted cyclist and had also served as the secretary of the local cycling association. Earlier, the wedding began as a festive affair, with relatives and friends from both families united to celebrate Praveen and Pooja's union. All the rituals, including the tying of the sacred knot, were completed in the morning. But before the reception could begin, Praveen collapsed near the stage, leaving the entire gathering in shock. Praveen was about to participate in the traditional Aarthi ceremony, and he complained of uneasiness and collapsed, added the report. He was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, but was declared dead on arrival. Later, the doctors confirmed that Praveen died due to a massive heart attack. Following the incident, the entire families of both the bride and groom were inconsolable as the wedding venue turned into a scene of mourning. In another incident, as dance videos of wedding guests often go viral on social media, a groom's carriage has gone viral on the internet. According to the video, the groom's carriage has an AC installed and has been fitted in it with Jugaad. The video has garnered over 2.3 million views and has been viewed more than 2 million times so far. Along with this, the users have liked this video so much that more than 44 thousand users have liked it. At the same time, there is a flood of comments on this video.
Time of India
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Sivakarthikeyan visits Keezhadi museum with family amid busy film schedule
Sivakarthikeyan, one of Tamil cinema 's most beloved and bankable stars, recently made headlines not for a film release, but for a thoughtful gesture of visiting the historic Keezhadi Museum with his family. Known for his charming screen presence and family-friendly entertainers, Sivakarthikeyan took time off his busy schedule to explore Tamil Nadu 's ancient roots, winning praise from fans and cultural enthusiasts alike. Exploring 2,600 years of history at Keezhadi Located in the Sivaganga district, the Keezhadi Museum houses over 13,000 artifacts dating back more than 2,600 years. These include pottery, ornaments, iron tools, and other remnants of early Tamil civilization. Sivakarthikeyan, accompanied by his wife Aarthi and daughter, toured the museum with genuine interest. Co-director Ajay guided the family through the exhibits, explaining the cultural significance of the discoveries. The actor's curiosity and respect for Tamil heritage were evident throughout the visit. Fans and tourists flock to meet Sivakarthikeyan by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Maximize Your $200 Investment with AI-Powered Market Insights! News Portal Learn More Undo His surprise appearance caused a stir among fellow visitors, who eagerly lined up for selfies and photos. Sivakarthikeyan interacted warmly with fans, adding a personal touch to the cultural outing. The visit not only highlighted his deep-rooted connection to Tamil culture but also showed a grounded, relatable side of the superstar. His engagement in heritage education subtly encouraged fans to value and explore their own cultural history. Balancing stardom with cultural awareness On the professional front, Sivakarthikeyan is currently busy with two high-profile films ' Madharasi ', directed by A.R. Murugadoss and set for release on September 5, and ' Parasakthi ', directed by Sudha Kongara . His last film 'Amaran' grossed over ₹300 crore, solidifying his position in the top tier of South Indian cinema. With his ability to juggle stardom and cultural consciousness, Sivakarthikeyan continues to be a role model both on and off screen.
India.com
29-04-2025
- Business
- India.com
Data & AI's Relentless Rise
Cloud economics, real-time analytics, and generative models have expanded the remit of software engineers far beyond feature delivery. Today's practitioners must secure petabytes against privacy laws one week and build a large-language-model pilot the next. Within that cross-pressure of scale and speed sits a role that few universities even imagined fifteen years ago: the end-to-end data and AI engineer who can translate compliance rules, business metrics, and algorithmic research into systems that never blink. That landscape forms the backdrop for Aarthi Anbalagan's journey—a journey that began in Tamil Nadu lecture halls and now influences the telemetry pipelines inside one of the world's most influential technology companies. Milestones that Signaled an Indian Talent on the Move Aarthi's Indian academic record hinted at her trajectory early: a Summa Cum Laude engineering degree at Anna University, Chennai, India, with the then-rare distinction of Best Outgoing Student , followed by a 'Magna Cum Laude' master's in computer science at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. While peers prepared for campus interviews, she was already co-authoring eye-tracking research and winning the prestigious CRA-W Grad Cohort Scholarship, an honor awarded to fewer than five percent of applicants worldwide. Her professional innings mirrors that rarity. At Nokia Networks she re-factored 3G HSUPA scheduling code—a portion of telecom firmware where milliseconds mean dropped calls. Switching to GE Healthcare, she shepherded the Patient-Data-Management module of a next-generation mammography system from concept to US FDA 510(k) clearance, picking up an Engineering Excellence Award in a regulated domain where such approvals are counted, not assumed. 'I learned early that perfect code is necessary but not sufficient; you must show regulators, doctors, and patients why it's safe, not merely that it works,' Aarthi recalls, describing late-night FMEA(Failure Mode Effects and Analysis) sessions that bridged Bangalore, Buc, and Boston. Inside the Engineer's Playbook—Observed by the Author While certain technical specifics remain under internal disclosure policies, what emerged from verified performance records and peer feedback is a portrait of sustained, large-scale impact: Telemetry at Exabyte Scale: She led the scale-out of monitoring for a data lake that stores information for search, finance, and HR products. By dual-publishing metrics and automating control-plane provisioning, her team eliminated throttling issues due to noisy neighboring services without a single minute of customer downtime. She led the scale-out of monitoring for a data lake that stores information for search, finance, and HR products. By dual-publishing metrics and automating control-plane provisioning, her team eliminated throttling issues due to noisy neighboring services without a single minute of customer downtime. Security Intervention that Saved US $1 million: During a crypto-fraud incident, Aarthi's rapid automated solution within 24 hours, saved $1million and fed lessons into a company-wide Secure Future programme. During a crypto-fraud incident, Aarthi's rapid automated solution within 24 hours, saved $1million and fed lessons into a company-wide Secure Future programme. GDPR & EU Data Boundary Compliance: She designed a real-time EUDB data pipeline and built a BI dashboard that empowered senior leadership to make informed decisions in under 30 seconds, while her GDPR strategy saved thousands of dollars monthly, scrubbing PII data in real time. She designed a real-time EUDB data pipeline and built a BI dashboard that empowered senior leadership to make informed decisions in under 30 seconds, while her GDPR strategy saved thousands of dollars monthly, scrubbing PII data in real time. OpenTelemetry Adoption: Re-writing a proprietary logging framework into an open standard removed latent vulnerabilities and earned her a 'Kudo' award, a peer-nominated honor granted to fewer engineers annually. Re-writing a proprietary logging framework into an open standard removed latent vulnerabilities and earned her a 'Kudo' award, a peer-nominated honor granted to fewer engineers annually. AI-Driven Incident Management: Her Auto-Triage system, now dispatching more than half of weekly tickets automatically, blends AI/ML and Jupyter-based notebooks. Interns she mentored extended the pattern, signaling a multiplier effect. 'When an on-call rotation costs three hours of human sleep, automation isn't a luxury; it's empathy in action,' she tells me, matter-of-fact rather than boastful. That empathy extends to community leadership. An IEEE Senior Member, Aarthi edits a monthly AI-Learning newsletter and currently chairs the AI Champs program across the company's storage organization. Hackathon podiums—*Honorable mention in Hack For Africa project in 2018, Camp Copilot MVP in 2025—*underline sustained peer recognition. Performance tuning a retention executor yielded a 100-fold speed-up for the largest customers; symlink design for Data Lake Gen2 migration let customers shift workloads seamlessly, without having to do any manual. 'My metric of success is the backlog I erase for teams I'll never meet. If my systems keep running even if I disappear tomorrow–that's reliability done right,' she quips, echoing a pragmatism many platform engineers aspire to yet rarely articulate. Lessons for India's Emerging Data Leaders Aarthi's story resonates for Indian readers for two reasons. First, she evidences that depth in foundational domains—compiler-grade C#, scheduling algorithms, or healthcare compliance—remains a passport to the AI frontier. Second, her academic accolades from Chennai to Providence, USA show that tier-two city graduates can scale global walls when they pair conceptual clarity with visibility in professional societies. For graduates eyeing the swelling AI ecosystem at home, the takeaway is to blend domain context with open-source fluency. Whether you're tuning Spark clusters in Hyderabad or auditing PII flow for a fintech in Bengaluru, investing in telemetry and security literacy widens your perspective. Aarthi's trajectory—from winning a state-level governor's medal to supervising exabyte scale telemetry—demonstrates how Indian diligence can influence cloud architectures used by hundreds of millions. The data revolution is neither Silicon Valley's nor Bengaluru's alone; it thrives wherever engineers treat observability, ethics, and automation as a single thread. Aarthi Anbalagan simply reminds us that the thread can start in an Anna University lab and, with rigor and generosity, loop back to strengthen India's own digital fabric.
The Hindu
25-04-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
16-year-old girl undergoes robot-assisted heart surgery at Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital
It was a few months before her Class 12 Board Examination that 16-year-old Aarthi (name changed) was diagnosed with atrial septal defect (ASD), after she complained of dizziness and fatigue. Days after the exam ended, the girl underwent robot-assisted ASD closure surgery at the Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital (TNGMSSH), Omandurar Estate, and is now back on her feet, eagerly looking forward to her exam results. TNGMSSH surgeons said this was the first time a robot-assisted surgery for ASD closure had been done in the government sector in India. 'Till now, we have been performing beating heart surgeries robotically,' Meenakshi Sundaram, Head, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, TNGMSSH, said. Aarthi was raised by a single mother, who works at a roadside pushcart eatery. She was diagnosed with ASD at a private hospital. 'There, they said she should undergo the surgery at the earliest and that it will cost more than ₹3.5 lakh,' her mother, who gets a daily wage of ₹400, said. They approached TNGMSSH in January, where doctors examined Aarthi and told her to come after board exam ended. She wanted her surgery done during the holidays and was keen on returning to normal activity at the earliest, so as not affect her studies. Doctors said this was a congenital heart defect, and the symptoms could show up later in life as was the case with Aarthi. With TNGMSSH having a robotic surgery centre, doctors performed a robot-assisted ASD closure surgery on her on April 3. She was fit for discharge on the fourth day after the operation, Dr. Meenakshi Sundaram said. Robot-assisted surgery has its benefits, he said, adding that the surgery was done through a 5-cm incision on the chest. It provides faster recovery, shorter hospital stay, and patients do not have scars. In private hospitals, open surgery for ASD closure would have cost around ₹5 lakh, while robot-assisted surgery would cost ₹15 lakh to ₹20 lakh, he said, adding: 'Here, the procedure was covered under the Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme.' Around 100 patients with cancer and over 60 patients with cardiac ailments have benefitted from robotic surgery at TNGMSSH so far, a press release said. Apart from Dr. Meenakshi Sundaram, the surgical team comprised Abinayavalavan and Ezhilan from the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Kumar, Head, Department of Anaesthesiology, and Deepthi and Kalaivani from the department.
