HYDERABAD

Sania Mirza’s lesser-known engagement with Hyderabad’s Sohrab Mirza

Sania Mirza got engaged to her childhood friend Sohrab Mirza in July 2009 Hyderabad: Amid Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik’s separation rumours, the couple’s past relationships have been crawling back on the internet. After reports of Shoaib’s first marriage with Ayesha Siddiqui, Sania’s first engagement with her childhood friend Mohammad Sohrab Mirza is popping up online. Everything About Her First Engagement Before Shoaib Malik, the tennis star was engaged to the owner of Hyderabad‘s popular bakery chain ‘Univeral Bakers’, Sohrab Mirza. The two, who grew up together, exchanged the rings in July 2009. Sania and Sohrab were all set to make it to the aisle, but they couldn’t, as they felt ‘incompatible’. Reportedly, the couple parted ways just 6 months after…

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Telangana govt auctions open plots, flats in Hyderabad, other districts

Rajiv Swagruha flats located at Bandlaguda and Pocharam will also be sold during the auctions Hyderabad: Telangana government is conducting auctions of open plots and flats in Hyderabad and other districts to raise Rs. 2,000 crores. The plots and flats are located in three districts of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) and seven other districts of Telangana. Rajiv Swagruha flats located at Bandlaguda and Pocharam will also be sold during the auctions. Auction to continue till Nov 23 Over 450 open plots under HMDA limits and 2400 plots in other seven districts of Telangana will be available for the auction which started on November 14 and will continue till November 23. On Tuesday, the auction of 87 open plots in…

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Water supply to be disrupted in parts of Hyderabad on November 17

Hyderabad: The drinking water supply will be disrupted for 24 hours from 4 am on November 17 in some parts of east Hyderabad due to the works that will be taken up to arrest the leakages on the water pipelines located in LB Nagar and Mansoorabad. The affected areas include, Uppal, Ramanthapur, Sri Sai RTC colony, Adarsh Nagar, Venkat Sai Nagar, Sri Krishna colony, Old Peerzadiguda, Mallikarjuna Nagar (Phase I) and Bhavani Nagar colony. Water supply will also be affected at Quthbullapur, NTR Nagar basti, Vastu colony, Shiva Ganga colony and Shivamma basti. Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) in a press release requested people to use water conservatively to avoid inconvenience. source

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Hyderabad: Man jailed for making a hoax bomb call

Hyderabad: A man who made a hoax bomb threat call to the police control room was sentenced to 18 day imprisonment by the court. Mohd Akbar Khan, a resident of Santoshnagar in old city called up the PCR at around 10 p.m on Tuesday and told a bomb was kept near I S Sadan in Saidabad. The bomb Disposal and Detection Squad rushed to the spot and conducted a search for around two hours before declaring it a hoax. A case was booked at Saidabad police station under Section 182, 186 IPC and 70(b) City Police Act. The police later found the call was made from Santoshnagar and tracked down Akbar Khan. He was arrested early on Wednesday and was produced before the court. The…

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Watch: Plane bought by Hyderabad’s Pista House stuck at underpass in AP

The truck is traveling at a very slow speed to avoid damage Hyderabad: An old airplane that was bought by Hyderabad’s Pista House owner at a Kerala auction got stuck at an underpass in Bapatla district, Andhra Pradesh. The plane was being transported by road from Kochi to Hyderabad. After the incident that took place at the Korisapadu underpass, many people reached the spot to have a glimpse of the plane. Soon after receiving the information, Medarmetla police reached the spot and made an arrangement to pull the plane out of the underpass. #Flight #restaurant in #Hyderabad Pista House owner who bought an old plane at a Kerala auction. Pista House owner is converting an old plane into a restaurant in…

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Unicorn Darwinbox to add 300 people in Hyderabad, 100 in other markets

Darwinbox, Hyderabad-based HR tech platform on Monday announced plans to add 300 people in Hyderabad in about six months. This will take the headcount to 1,000 in the city from the current 700, said Rohit Chennamaneni, Darwinbox Co-founder. The company Monday moved into a new global headquarters in about 75,000 sq ft at Skootr Forest in Hitec City. This new campus will house the key product development teams. The company will look to add surveys, employee experience segments of human resources, which it is not currently doing. The company has sales teams in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the UAE, and the United States. Darwinbox is a cloud-based HR technology platform that caters to organizations’ HR needs covering recruitment, onboarding,…

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Fake certificate racket busted in Hyderabad

 The Cyberabad Special Operations Team (Madhapur) and Miyapur police have busted a fake educational racket and arrested six members of gang on Monday. The police seized 157 memos, bill books, letter pads of various universities, cash Rs. 50,000 and mobile phones from them. The arrested persons were identified as Dinesh Singh (33), Akhilesh Semwal (41), Tajinder Singh (36), Garikapati Venkata Bhaskar Satyanarayana Sharma alias Sharma (49), Geekuru Prem Kumar (29) and Singarapu Sujatha (38). Two others including Milli Goel, Director, MG University, Meghalaya and Shivani, clerk were absconding. “Sharma introduced Khaja to Akhilesh and Prem of MG University Meghalaya and submitted documents to them. Believing them, he transferred Rs.2.07 lakh and after a few days received memos for the academic…

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Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik to host a reality show together amid divorce rumours

Amid reports of divorce, Indian tennis player Sania Mirza and her husband, Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, are set to appear together on a new reality show. On Saturday night, the OTT platform ‘Urduflix’ on its Instagram handle had announced the ‘The Mirza Malik Show’ where the couple will be seen together. Sharing a poster of the show featuring the star couple, the post read, “The Mirza Malik Show very soon only on Urduflix.” However, amid rumours that the couple is soon to be separated, the announcement has confused many fans. While many felt that the news refuted the divorce rumours, others expressed their doubts as neither of the couple shared the post on their social media. “But i heard they are divorced. What about…

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Poachgate conspiracy hatched after BRS made BJP jittery

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s covert operation to purchase TRS MLAs began five-six months ago, particularly after the talk of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao launching a national party became a discussion point across the nation and with the BJP getting jittery about this. The probe by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), according to sources privy to the findings so far, has confirmed that Delhi was involved in the entire operation, with Amit Shah pulling the strings and calls by the accused in the case being traced directly to the Prime Minister’s Office. It has been found that Ramachandra Bharathi, one of the three arrested in the sting operation at the Moinabad farmhouse belonging to MLA Pilot Rohit Reddy, had directly spoken to some…

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World’s biggest pharmaceutical cluster, Telangana’s Pharma City, to be launched shortly: KTR

Hyderabad: Pharma City, the largest pharmaceutical cluster in the world in the making, has received all the required clearances and is getting ready to be launched shortly. The works on the 19,000-acre project, which will help the pharma companies achieve economies of scale, are progressing rapidly, IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao said here on Saturday. peaking at the CII Southern Regional Council meeting, he said Telangana has achieved rapid progress across sectors and it will continue to maintain the growth momentum even as it will try to explore untapped sectors. Prime Minister Narender Modi had called politicians from across the country two years ago to take feedback on what needs to be done to put India on a growth highway. “Telangana suggested the…

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