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Time of India
01-05-2025
- Science
- Time of India
Akshara Saini tops Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali in ICSE Class X exams, but Pranshu Kumar shows how to trump adversity with 99.2%
1 2 3 4 5 6 Chandigarh: Students from across Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali delivered stellar performances in ICSE Class X results declared on Wednesday. The top spot was bagged by Akshara Saini of Little Flower Convent School , Panchkula, who scored 99.4%. Five others followed closely with 99.2%, tying for the 2nd rank. While Akshara came up with a steller performance, Pranshu Kumar from Col VR Mohan DAV Public School, Derabassi, became the example of how hard work trumps everything. Pranshu (16), who took one of the second spots in the tricity, comes from a modest background. His father, Deepak Kumar, works a labour job at a private company in Saidpura, while his mother is a lady guard. "My parents fulfilled all my needs. The school supported me with free textbooks, sample papers, and even a scholarship," he said. Pranshu hopes to pursue non-medical and crack the JEE in 2027. Meanwhile, Akshara (15) credited her success to consistency and long-term planning. "My father used to teach me. Science is my favourite subject," she said. She aims to pursue engineering at IIT-Bombay. Her father, Pradeep Saini, is a superintendent engineer with the Haryana electricity board, while her mother, Jaswinder, is a homemaker. The family lives in Panchkula and hails from a village in Ambala. Akshara also enjoys drawing, poetry, and playing table tennis. Others who scored 99.2% were Ramya Bansal and Aasma Sri Garg from Strawberry Fields High School, Chandigarh; Arshnoor Singh from Yadavindra Public School, Mohali; and Atuleya Malhotra from St Stephen's School, Sector 45, Chandigarh.
Washington Post
29-01-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Pranshu Verma named Bureau Chief in New Delhi
We're very happy to announce Pranshu Verma will become our next bureau chief in New Delhi, with responsibility for covering India, the world's largest democracy and an essential story for The Washington Post. In his nearly three years here, Pranshu has demonstrated the drive, initiative and quick-study skills that will be needed to master such a challenging assignment. He has already excelled in covering one infinitely complex story – artificial intelligence – using rigorous reporting to pioneer a beat on the impact of technology on ordinary people's lives. In India he will prioritize stories that feel most relevant to our readers, with a focus on India's complicated relationship with the United States and the world as Prime Minister Narendra Modi flexes his muscles as a global power broker. As a member of Business's tech enterprise team, Pranshu has written memorably about humans who fall in love with chatbots and how ISIS and Neo Nazis have used AI to recruit and disseminate material. His reporting on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI triggered Congressional inquiries into safety testing and employment practices at the company. Over the past year, he has helped to shape and deliver The Post's 'Power Grab' series, tracking how the AI boom is increasing the need for data centers and having a profound impact on the environment. A natural collaborator, Pranshu was also a key contributor to International's 'Rising India, Toxic Tech' series, a standout body of work anchored by Gerry Shih that focused on India's use of social media for authoritarian ends – and which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. Pranshu joined The Post in March of 2022, having previously covered transportation and the State Department at The New York Times; technology at The Boston Globe; and Philadelphia prisons and New Jersey politics at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware, with a bachelor's degree in finance, and earned a master's at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. In addition to covering India, Pranshu will be responsible for covering some neighboring countries, including Sri Lanka and Nepal, working in close collaboration with India correspondent Karishma Mehrotra and reporter/researcher Anant Gupta. He starts work April 1.
