Allu Arjun's engagement

Tollywood heartthrob Allu Arjun got engaged to Sneha Reddy on November 26, 2010 at bride’s residence Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad, India. Chiranjeevi the superstar, his wife Surekha and son Ram Charan Teja were the major attractions except the bride and groom themselves.
According to the reports, Arjun’s family members, close friends and several politicians and several star from Tollywood Mohan Babu, Nagarujna, Shriya Saran, Ravi Teja, Rana Daggubati ,Raghavendra Rao Kodandarami Reddy, Kaikala Sathyanarayana Venu Madhav, Srikanth, Producer C.Kalyanand other celebs were present at Allu Arjun's engagement.

Reddy is the daughter of Sankar Reddy who is a Gen Sec of Science College of Engineering in Hyderabad. Sneha completed her MS in Computer Sciences in US. Sneha wore conventional pink nine-yard sari and Allu Arjun was in Silky pearl white traditional dress. Marriage ceremony will be held in February 2011.

India Eye win in jaipur

Young Virat Kohli will be the cynosure of all eyes as a new-look India seek to continue the team's dominating run at home in the current calendar when they take on New Zealand in the second one-dayer here on Wednesday.

In the absence of the creme de la creme of Indian cricket, the dashing right-hander from Delhi gave enough indication of why he is the one to look for in future with a match-winning century in the opening match in Guwahati.

With regular stars such as skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh being rested for the first two one-dayers, Kohli stole the limelight with a fine hundred that paved the way for India's 40-run win in the series opener

The young Kohli, going through a dream run having scored two back-to-back tons in Ranji Trophy apart from his second successive ODI century, would be keen to bat the way he has been doing of late at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium on Wednesday.

India have a good record at this venue winning six out of 10 matches, the last being a humdinger against South Africa in February when the hosts won by one run.

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800 vehicles seized and 2 Held

HYDERABAD: Police have arrested two persons and recovered 80 vehicles from their possession.

In the first case, 38-year-old Hari Koti Lenin Babu was arrested on Monday for stealing vehicles. They recovered 75 two wheelers from his possession.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Hyderabad police commissioner A K Khan said Hari Koti Lenin Babu used to steal two-wheelers and park them at parking places in the city. Lenin Babu, a native of Vijayawada, came to the city in search of livelihood. Based on his confession, the CCS police have recovered 20 stolen two wheelers. During the investigation, 55 abandoned two-wheelers were also recovered from the parking lot at MGBS.

Khan said Lenin Babu used to carry a bunch of duplicate keys and steal two-wheelers, particularly Hero Honda motorcycles as it was easy to open their lock with a duplicate key, from parking lots in the city. After committing the offence, he used to keep the stolen vehicles at parking lots at MGBS, JBS & railway stations. Later, he would sell them at throw-away prices, the CP added. more

Spurt in applications seeking Occupancy Certificate

HYDERABAD: There is a spurt in applications seeking occupancy certificate (OC). As many as 183 building owners/builders have obtained OC from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) so far this year. On the contrary, only 10 OCs were issued last year. Prior to that only two builders had taken OC from the GHMC.

Four years after the mortgage rule came into force for building permissions and occupancy certificate made mandatory for release of mortgaged portion with the GHMC, builders/owners are queuing up before the corporation for getting their mortgaged portion released.

In 2010, 322 builders have applied for OC after completing buildings, while 183 buildings were inspected and issued certificates. Another 107 applications were rejected and 12 builders were asked to provide some information. Interestingly, 86 buildings got OC in West Zone, which comprises areas like Kukatpally, Serilingampally 1 & 2 and Qutubullapur.

"Most buildings which were permitted after 2007 are getting completed now and applying for OC for release of the mortgaged portion. The other reason is any building permitted has to be completed within three years," as told by GHMC additional commissioner (Planning) K Rajendra Prasad.more