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From a resort to a furnace
The City of Destiny, which was once the `summer resort' of Maharajas and zamindars is reeling under severe heat wave conditions. The prolonged hot spell is making senior citizens sit up and wonder about the fate of the erstwhile summer ...
Tribute

Rajiv Gandhi (1944 - 1991): The Youngest PM
When he assumed office as the Prime Minister of India, he was faced with a four-pronged challenge: resolving the political and religious violence in Punjab and the north-east, reforming the demoralised Congress Party, re-energising the sagging ...
Personality

"It is 'Nijam', I took a risk"
All his earlier films were entertainment-based as his only ambition then was to make money. But the urge to give back something in return to society that made what he is today impelled him to take a risk and produce a film with a social ...


The saga of a lensman
"The dark little nude woman trembled in my hands, as if she was the most delicate and precious thing I had ever asked for and the foreground in front of me, was like an opaque sheet of canvas, as my eyes were moist to the brim. In my mind I was ...
Information Technology

IT is 'India Tomorrow'
The year was 1976. The Hyderabad-based International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tracts (ICRISAT), was looking for qualified computer-literates to run its key departments. A team of young men and women who applied for the jobs were ...
Music

Metro cultural round-up
Even a casual effort to unfold the subtle twists in the storyline of any `kavya' requires high scholarship. If it comes to making discerningly an unravelling sojourn of the poetic heart of the pleromatic soul involved in the `Raghuvamsam' of the ...
Eating Out

Mandarin delights
Hotel Green Park has taken the gourmets of the city for a savouring trip down the Great Wall, through a Chinese food festival that concluded on Sunday. To create an ethnic ambience the hotel's Chinese restaurant `Memories of China' was decked up ...
Showbitz

Of stunts and chase
NOWADAYS, FILM-MAKERS take great pride in talking about the chase scenes in a film rather than talk about the other departments that contribute to the success of a film. They give details about the scenes, the number of artistes participating in ...
Katrina in a Telugu flick?
HOT FAVOURITE Katrina Kaif, who is currently linked with the super brat Salman Khan, is likely to star opposite Venkatesh in Malleswari. Katrina, one of the top models has been receiving offers from Bollywood but she is all set to kick ...
Success trip
IT IS another triumph for director Teja as he is believed to have succeeded in getting superstar Rajnikanth to do his next film Rythu. Teja announced both Dhairyam starring young Nitin and Rythu simultaneously but he is keen ...
Back to films
SOUNDARYA HAS been indecisive about her film career following her marriage but news is that she has agreed to act in C. V. Reddy's Swethanagu. The film, based on Lalladevi's popular novel, will be made in Tamil and Telugu. Soundarya was ...
Accolades for Mahesh
MAHESH BABU `bug' has bitten Teja as he goes into raptures at the very mention of the former. He is heard praising Mahesh at the drop of a hat, be it his acing skills, his behaviour on the sets, his personality or his attitude. He is so ...
Trio effort
VIPUL SHAH has teamed up with Amitabh, Akshay Kumar and Paresh once again after Aankhen. Waqt - Race against Time, written by Aatish Kapadia is being produced by Manmohan Shetty. ...
Travel

Trekking expedition
The veteran athletes of the metro have proved that they can show their mettle not only in sports but also in adventure activities. A group of four veterans have participated in the trekking to `Sar Pass' in the Himalayas. They are the Veteran ...
Miscellany


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