Saroja Kumari Jhuthu (born June 5, 1968) is an Indian sport shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's 25m Pistol (Pairs) with Sushma Rana at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. [1]
Bangalore Saroja Devi is an Indian actress who has acted in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi films. She acted in around 200 films over seven decades. She is known by the epithets "Abhinaya Saraswathi" in Kannada and "Kannadathu Paingili" in Tamil. She is one of the most successful actresses in the history of Indian cinema.
India was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 270-member strong contingent comprising 183 sportspersons and 77 officials. 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was the flag bearer for India.
Sushma Singh is an Indian shooter who won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, earning 1140 points, with her partner Saroja Kumari Jhuthu. She competes in the 25-meter shooting events and has held the national record for 25-metre shooting event from 2002 to 2003. She was inspired by Jaspal Rana, her older brother and a shooting champion himself, to take up the sport.
Maharaja Karni Singh ji , also known as Dr Karni Singh, was from 1950 the last Maharaja of Bikaner State to hold the title of Maharaja of Bikaner, officially, until 1971, when the privy purse and all the royal titles were abolished by the Republic of India. He was also a politician, serving as a member of the Lok Sabha for twenty-five years, from 1952 to 1977, and an international clay pigeon and skeet champion.
Rahasyam (transl. Secret) is a 1967 Indian Telugu-language swashbuckler film directed by Vedantam Raghavayya. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, B. Saroja Devi, Kanta Rao, Krishna Kumari and S. V. Ranga Rao, with music composed by Ghantasala. The film was produced by Allareddy Shankar Reddy under the Lalitha Siva Jyothi Films banner.
Saroja may refer to:
Kula Gotralu is a 1962 Indian Telugu-language drama film written and directed by K. Pratyagatma. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Krishna Kumari and music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao. Acharya Aatreya wrote the dialogues for the film. It was produced by A. V. Subba Rao under the Prasad Art Pictures banner.
The Wrestling events for the 2010 Commonwealth Games were held on Indira Gandhi Arena from 5 to 10 October 2010. Unlike other major wrestling events only one bronze medal was awarded per event.
Deepika Kumari is an Indian professional archer. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the women's individual recurve event. She also won a gold there in the women's team recurve event with Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi. She won individual gold in two of the three stages of the World Cup—one in Guatemala and another in Paris. In the process she also reclaimed the number one ranking after nine years at the Paris World Cup. Deepika won individual gold medals at the Archery World Cup Stage 1. She defeated Mexico by 5–1 in the final to win the gold in Paris.
Zamindar (transl. Landlord) is a 1966 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film directed by V. Madhusudhana Rao. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Krishna Kumari and music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao. It was produced by Tammareddy Krishna Murthy under the Ravindra Art Pictures banner. The film is loosely based on the 1963 English film Charade.
The women's recurve individual archery event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games was a competition held as part of the archery programme at the Yamuna Sports Complex in Delhi, India, from 4 October to 10 October 2010. It was the second time that the recurve individual event for women had been included in the Commonwealth Games and the first time it had been contested since the 1982 Games in Brisbane, Australia.
Babita Kumari Phogat is a former Indian professional wrestler and a politician from the state of Haryana. She is a multiple Commonwealth Games medalist, winning the gold medal in 2014 Commonwealth Games, and silver medals at 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2018 Commonwealth Games. When she won the 2014 Commonwealth gold medal, she became the second Indian women wrestler to win a Commonwealth gold after Geeta Phogat, who had won it in 2010.
Meena Kumari is an Indian shooter. She is from Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh.
Jagadeka Veeruni Katha is a 1961 Indian Telugu-language fantasy swashbuckler film produced and directed by K. V. Reddy under the Vijaya Productions banner. It stars N. T. Rama Rao, B. Saroja Devi with music composed by Pendyala Nageswara Rao.
Aatmiyulu (transl. Beloved) is a 1969 Indian Telugu-language drama film, produced by D. Madhusudhana Rao under the Saradhi Studios banner and directed by V. Madhusudhana Rao. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Vanisree, with music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao. The film was remade in Tamil as Pennin Vaazhkai (1981).
Lokaneethi is a 1952 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by R. Velappan Nair and produced by Swami Narayanan. The film stars Sathyan and B. S. Saroja. The film had musical score by V. Dakshinamoorthy.
Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai (1910–1991) was an Indian Bharatanatyam dance teacher and choreographer.
Lakshmi Saraswathi is a 1970 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by K. S. L. Swamy (Ravi) and produced by B. H. Jayanna. The film stars B. Saroja Devi, Ramesh, Sudarshan and R. Nagendra Rao in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Vijaya Bhaskar.
Pelli Kanuka is a 1960 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film, produced by and directed by C. V. Sridhar. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Krishna Kumari and B. Saroja Devi, with music composed by A. M. Rajah. The film is a remake of Sridhar's own Tamil film Kalyana Parisu (1959). It was released on 29 April 1960, and became a commercial success.
Basnayake Mudiyanselage Sugandika Manel Kumari, known as Sugandika Kumari, is a Sri Lankan cricketer who plays for the women's national cricket team. She made her One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) debut against Pakistan in January 2015.