What started 14 years ago in a corner of the KBR Park now resonates with sounds of victory through the simple act of laughing. Welcome to the Laughing Club, where age is not determined by numbers The early morning rays of the sun shine bright on the trees in the KBR park, giving the leaves [...]
Thanks to the rapid pace of urbanisation, the city’s rockscapes are endangered But thankfully, there are still some citizens who care enough for them Neha Alluri feedback@postnoon.com The Deccan Plateau, stretching over the entire Indian peninsula, is made of grey granite, one of the oldest and hardest rock formations in the world. Steaming lava cools, [...]
New Delhi: Mahindra Satyam today said its shareholders have approved the merger of the firm with its parent company Tech Mahindra. “The shareholders of both Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam have unanimously approved the scheme of amalgamation and merger of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Venturbay Consultants, C&S System Technologies, CanvasM Technologies and Mahindra Logisoft Business Solutions [...]
A brilliant treat for ardent foodies, Khan Saab does more than just impress. It leaves a lasting impression even after you have long left its carpeted floors Before this, I firmly believed that money can’t buy happiness. But my visit to Khan Saab had me re-thinking about that statement. It’s true! Nothing works better on [...]
Mumbai: Chief Economic Adviser Kaushik Basu has warned that if the Eurozone breaks up finally, it will hit India in the face as the country is unlikely to have the strength to overcome that crisis. “If Europe does slip into a crisis, it is going to be a very difficult time. There is no escaping from that. [...]
Actress Tannishtha Chatterjee, who has earlier worked with Abhay Deol, has now teamed with his elder cousin Sunny for her first commercial Hindi film I Love New Year. And she is all praise for the actor. “Abhay chooses his films a little differently from Sunny. Sunny is a far more mainstream star in a different [...]
Hyderabad: The CBI, which is probing the corruption charges against YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, today continued to question him as part of his two-day custodial interrogation that will end this evening. CBI officials, who took custody of the Kadapa MP from the Chanchalguda Central prison, where he is under judicial custody till June 11, are [...]
Kim Kardashian has bought boyfriend Kanye West a $750,000 car, it has been revealed. West, currently on the Watch the Throne tour of the UK and Ireland with Jay-Z, celebrated his 35th birthday on June 8. TMZ reports that Kardashian purchased the Otis singer a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 in LA. According to friends close [...]
Nagarjuna’s upcoming film Shirdi Sai is in the last stages of principal shooting. After donning the avatars of Annamayya and Sri Ramadasu, Nagarjuna and K Raghavendra Rao are teaming up once again for a biopic on Shirdi Saibaba. MM Keeravani is composing the music. Recently, K Raghavendra Rao and MM Keeravani went to Mantralayam and [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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