President of Italy-based The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Quarraisha Abdool Karim will be the chief guest at the 13th convocation of the Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (Deemed to be University), scheduled to be held on November 25.
At a press conference on November 21 (Tuesday), university Vice-Chancellor G. Partha Saradhy Varma said that Bharat Ratna awardee and honorary Professor of the Indian Institute of Science and the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, C.N.R. Rao, JNCASR president G. U. Kulkarni and Telugu film actor and industrialist Murali Mohan will be the guests of honour.
A total of 4,465 students will receive degrees at the convocation. Of them 219 students will receive Ph.D degrees, 449 of them will receive PG degrees and 3797 of receive under-graduate degrees.