Asin’s Duplicate Causing Confusion

The hot Malayalam beauty Asin is technically supposed to be in Mumbai but then she is being spotted in the southern circuit quite frequently. How is that happening? Well, it is not Asin but the Tamil actress Poorna who has a very strong resemblance to Asin and is already being called as Asin look alike.

Though Poorna is not against with the comparison she says that she has got used to taking it in her stride. However, she maintains that she would like to have her own identity and would appreciate if people recognize her for her own looks and performances. 

Poorna said that she appreciates Asin for her acting, sense of style etc and wants to tell her that she loves her movies. For now, there is an ample amount of confusion happening to the regular people who are seeing Poorna outside and mistaking her to be Asin. 

Genelia Saved Bollywood Hero!!!

Well, if you think that the bubbly beauty Genelia is fit only for girl next door and chirpy roles, perhaps this should change your mind. The slender beauty is a gutsy girl as well and this was the talk that generated after the incident that happened during the shooting of her Bollywood movie. This is ‘Chance Pe Dance’ and Genny is pairing up with Shahid Kapoor in this. As part of the scene, she was said to be riding with hero Shahid Kapoor on the pillion and had to go through several turns. This was attached to a towing truck and it seems that Shahid was urging the truck to move faster which led to the scooty also going faster. However, one such turned proved nasty and the side wheels were up in air. Thankfully, Genny managed to balance the speed and get the bike into normalcy. The shot came out well, Shahid breathed a sigh of relief and Genny became the hero of the day.

Property prices slump in 'Cyberabad'

"BEST BARGAIN: Plots measuring 200 square yards each and worth Rs 6 lakh at Shamshabad airport area are up for sale for Rs 4 lakh only. Contact Ms Nandya, Best Avenues,” reads an SMS doing the rounds in Hyderabad.

The text message reflects the grim real estate scenario in and around the cyber city. The ongoing agitation for a separate state of Telangana has crippled the sector, already hit hard in the past one year because of the global meltdown.

And since the Telangana agitation gained momentum in the last week of November, real estate transactions have come to a grinding halt in the state capital.

Builders who have completed their ventures are even ready to sell property for low profits, but buyers are preferring to wait, hoping the prices will further plummet.

“ Already, there is a drop of 20- 25 per cent in the price of flats in the last few weeks. The average cost of a flat which was around Rs 3,300 per sq ft in a fast- growing area such as Dilsukhnagar and Kukatpally has come down to Rs 2,500. Still, the buyers are waiting for the prices to fall further,” K. Vishnuvardhan Sarma of Vaishnavi Builders, which targets middle- class buyers, said.

C. Shekhar Reddy, president of AP Builders’ Forum, said the recession- hit sector had already been stagnating, as a result of which the prices already crashed.

Many real estate ventures launched in high- profile areas such as Gachibowli, Gopannapalli, Manikonda, Vattinagulapalli and Tellapur before the meltdown are either still under construction or failed to take off because of the lack of prospective buyers — mostly software professionals and entrepreneurs.

“ We had paid huge amounts as advance to landowners from whom we took the plots for building residential complexes.

But we had to stop construction midway because of the recession.

At a time when the real estate sector started showing the signs of recovery, the Telangana agitation has come as a bolt from the blue. All our activities have come to a standstill again,” a real estate developer in the Gopannapalli area said.

P. Nagaraju, chairman of the PNR group of constructions, said there were no buyers even if the builders offered the flats at low prices. “ Worse still, those who booked some of the flats are now pressuring us to return the advance amount. They are prepared to forfeit a lakh or two, but want to cancel their bookings, fearing that the property values will come down drastically in future,” Nagaraju, one of the top 10 real estate dealers in Hyderabad, said.

“ The sooner the Telangana issue is resolved, the better. We don’t mind the formation of a separate state. At least then, the real estate activity will pick up,” he said.

Interestingly, the property prices have started shooting up in the Vijayawada- Guntur area because of speculation that the belt will be made the capital of Andhra in the event of the formation of a separate Telangana.

According to reports, real estate prices in Vijayawada have gone up by 15- 20 per cent in the last month.

President of the Vijayawada Builders’ Association, Gadde Rajling, said there was a sudden increase in the sale of apartments.

“ The number of customers making inquiries about and buying new flats has shot up,” he said, adding that some buyers were even bulk- booking apartments on the outskirts of the city.

Source: mailtoday

Electronic-Media Is The Main CULPRIT

What began as a normal fast unto death for the foul mouthed KCR has now made him into a messiah for a few fanatics. All this is to separate the state of Andhra Pradesh into two and create a separate Telangana state. Barely twenty days has changed the entire scenario of Andhra Pradesh and given the rapid development, many have been trying to figure out the causes for this mess. All fingers are pointing towards one direction – the electronic media.

It is an open secret that the flurry of news channels that are currently around has created a rat race and the urge to get maximum TRP ratings has dumped ethics and the ideal role of a media channel into the drain. Right now, it is all about ad revenues, sensations and breaking news. Unfortunately, it is the people and the viewers who become victims of this. The news channels have been glorifying every single thing and running the same news again and again creating a psychological influence on the viewers.

Their over-action has been prompting even the silent people to cause some noise so that they can fall in the camera lens. It can be recalled during the burning of buses and damaging incident that not one face was showing anguish. Instead, they were laughing and making merry out of this anarchy.

To add to the woes, the channels interview such mindless wimps making them heroes. One major blunder as per many viewers is the forum being conducted by HMTV titled ‘Dasa Disa’.  It is very clear that the HMTV is pro- Telangana and they are doing whatever they can to spread the T-word. Ironically, when one of the Rayalaseema leader Chandrasekhara Reddy stated clearly that the cause for this ‘Disa’ to the state is also media, the head of the channel says ‘thank you’. This goes to show the kind of people who are sitting in the media desks and corrupting the minds of the people.

It is a shame we have to see such things in our lives and if the e-media continues their rampage solely for money then the day is not far when they will have to shut down their shops.

JAC threatens to stall Andhra travellers

The Joint Action Committee of students on Sunday threatened to stall the return of lakhs of non-Telangana people who leave Hyderabad for their respective places in Andhra and Rayalaseema for the Sankranti festival, if the Centre does not take a positive stand on Telangana state formation at the January 5 meeting.

“Nearly 30 lakh people go to their native places in Andhra for the Sankranti festival. If the Centre does not grant separate statehood for Telangana, they will not come back to Hyderabad. We will stop entry of all the transport facilities into Hyderabad. It is going to be a war in Hyderabad,” the JAC leaders warned.

The JAC leaders also called for “Rail Roko” on January 5 and stop all trains leaving from and coming to Hyderabad. “We will fight like Gujjars and stall the transport facilities by all means, unless the Telangana is granted,” they said.

'Vidyarthi Garjana' Or 'Naxal Garjana'?

A big mass gathering happened at Osmania University in the name of ‘Telangana Vidyarthi Garjana’. But people watching the show on small screens opined that it is sounding like ‘Naxal Garjana’ than ‘Vidyarthi Garjana’. The artistes sang songs on dais with dances showing ‘Gaddarisms’. Vimalakka is one of the main singers in the show. ‘Akka’ in general refers to naxalite, as many opined.

A man with female tone shouted from dais stating:

• We would smash the party offices be it NTR Bhavan, Gandhi Bhavan or anything if anyone talks against Telangana
• We will not allow the Andhra population return to Hyderabad once they go to their places for Sankranthi Holidays.
• We have battered Nagam on the other day just for the reason he praised Chandrababu (remember! KCR tried to manipulate that on the same day stating that students didn’t hit him but some goondas)
• JP should change his route to walk on Telangana land
• Chandrababu should take Telangana stand to see his yellow flag here
• If anyone tries to disturb Telangana students and their movement, he will see his last minutes
• The students who lost lives in movement should be given Rs 10 lakh each as they are ‘martyrs and amara veerulu’!!!

“The way the speakers shouting from Vidyarthi Garjana are sounding like Naxal Garjana. The state is becoming prey for Naxals”, saying public.

Adding to this KCR from his TRS office said, “As court asked politicians to stay away from that gathering we stayed back. But Rosiah’s government didn’t allow more than 1 lakh students those tried to come from different corners of Telangana districts. That is injustice caused”.

Channel provokes students against Naidu

A private television channel on Sunday instigated Telangana students against Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu by giving a scrolling, saying Naidu had taken a decision in favour of Samaikyandhra (united Andhra Pradesh). The scrolling appeared at a time when the Telangana students were celebrating the massive “Vidyarthi Garjana” (roar of students) at the Osmania University campus. Within minutes, the information was passed on to the leaders of Joint Action Committee of students, who came down heavily on the TDP president for ditching the Telangana. They threatened to demolish the TDP in Hyderabad and rest of Telangana for taking such a stand. On knowing the information, Telangana TDP leaders like Nagam Janardhan Reddy and others rushed to Naidu’s residence and sought to know whether it was the correct news. Later, Nagam clarified that there was no truth in the reports and that the TDP was still committed to the cause of Telangana. A JAC leader, who was sympathetical to the TDP, also made the announcement from the OU stage, saying that the channel gave the wrong news. The channel, too, withdrew the scrolling later, before it exploded all over the Telangana!