From directors to film-stars, no one was immune to the terror posed by the Dubai-based gangster.
Back in the 1990s, Bollywood was nothing like the sanitised, studio-controlled, corporate-financed industry it is today. Tinsel town had its moguls and its mandarins who, along with Mumbai’s realty players, controlled incredible sums of black money. So it was only natural that when Salem decided to go beyond the construction business, it would be to the veritable gold mine of Bollywood.
The first target would be Subhash Ghai, one of the reigning maharajas of superstardom. Ghai’s cash registers had been ringing and coffers overflowing ever since his 1993 box office superhit Khalnayak, starring Salem’s now-on, now-off friend Sanjay Dutt. The director’s stock had soared so much that he could even sign Shah Rukh Khan for a film.
Best cities 2014: Post-bifurcation, Hyderabad is regaining its place as a big player on the realty scene
When Rajesh Nathani, 25, bought his two bedroom apartment in Hyderabad, price was not the only consideration. For the workforce planning analyst at GE Money, it's the 'priceless conveniences' that matter more. His top-floor home, in a five-storeyed 10-apartment block, is neither a typical high-rise in a packed locality nor an expensive one. At Kompally in north Hyderabad, it is far away from his workplace in west Hyderabad's Madhapur, where most IT firms operate out of impressive buildings.
The conduct of election of members to the Medical Council of India in 2013 and its subsequent actions over the past year have underlined the brazen corruption in the regulatory body. Developments in the health ministry raise doubts over whether these issues will be tackled at all.
The removal of Dr Harshvardhan from the helm of the health ministry may merely be to give him more room to focus on the Delhi assembly election campaign for the BJP, but there appears to be an apprehension in several quarters that the shift, whether intentionally or otherwise, will be a setback to the attempts to free the medical sector from corruption.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pulled off a diplomatic heist; or shall we call it a diplomatic coup?
The man is known for thinking out of the box and stunning his friends and rivals alike with his unconventional ideas and approach.
For somebody who has always been tied down to a state – Gujarat in this context – Modi has stunned the world once again with his unconventional diplomacy.
Obtaining information through Right to Information (RTI) just became a costly affair. An activist, who had earlier this month sought information on developmental works was left flummoxed after the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewage Board (HMWS&SB), in their reply , asked him to pay a whopping Rs 32,470 for providing the demanded statistics.
In a series of five questions, a social activist Mohammed Abdul Akram of Yugantar (NGO) sought data on the number of completed and pending projects in Moghalpura, and the budgeted amount earmarked for each.He had also requested information on the list of borewells sanctioned from 2009 to 2014, apart from requesting details on the number of sanctioned bore-wells which were yet to be dug.
In view of the US prez Barack Obama's visit to India and other important IndoUS deliberations in Hyderabad, US intelligence is seriously concerned on security issues in Hyderabad.
At a time of heightened security concerns following an abduction attempt on a top pharma executive and arrest of a terror accused in the city , the US Bureau of Diplomatic Security's (BDS) warning to its citizens on rising crimes, attacks on women and poor response of the city police assumes significance.
You must have heard a lot of stories about Taj Mahal built by Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. While giving birth to her fourteenth child, Mumtaz Mahal had died in Burhanpur. For six months she was buried here and later Shah Jahan took her body t Agra, where she was buried in Taj Mahal.
Actually, there is a secret behind why Taj Mahal was built in Agra, which people don't know about.
Today we will tell the secret behind construction of Taj Mahal.
And they came together once again. The superstars of Bollywood Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan once again met and had a gala time at Salman’s sister Arpita’s reception bash in Mumbai. Both the Khans not just came together, they even seemed to have struck a friend chord.
Looking dapper, both Shah Rukh and Salman mingled, joked and gave plenty of candid moments to shutterbugs to capture. Clad in a black suit paired with black shirt, Shah Rukh looked like his handsome self even as the brother of the bride Salman dressed in a midnight blue shirt looked quite a sight himself.
