IIT-Hyderabad student bags Rs 1.2-crore package with Google
HYDERABAD: Sneha Reddy, who graduated from IIT-Hyderabad this year, has bagged a whopping Rs 1.2-crore pay package (per annum) from Google, the highest received by a student in the IIT-H’s history since it was established in 2008.
The highest package was offered to a student until May was Rs 40 lakh and the average package stood at Rs 11.5 lakh.
Sneha Reddy, who has been selected for Google Intelligence project, had received the medal under ‘Excellence in Academics and Co-curricular activities’ from President Ram Nath Kovind.
The Computer Science Graduate from IIT Hyderabad, who has got four gold medals, completed four rounds of online test which Google conducted recently and finally got the opportunity. She was due to visit the US for the final round, but as she was unable to go there, Google did the final round also for her through online on the basis of her excellence in previous rounds.
Surprisingly, the topper of her batch, Ibrahim Dalal, has bagged Rs 35 lakh (per annum_ package. Dalal too has received the medal for scoring best CGPA this year.
A native of Vikarabad, Sneha Reddy's father Sudhakar works in a software firm in Hyderabad. IIT faculty were all praise for the student, who made the institution proud. Sneha Reddy said that IIT-Hyderabad has encouraged its students towards experiments and "helped her a lot getting selected for Google's project".
courtesy : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
