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Ring rail atop Kailasagiri
Trains run through hill ranges, but ever been on one that's mountain-borne forever? In about 15 months, Vizagites will have this luxury of traversing on a ring rail track atop Kailasagiri, which is set to lend this spine-tingling experience, ...
Tribute
His was a purposeful life
The life of a city gets embellished by the wise and far-sighted people residing in it and those in higher echelons with a deep concern for toning up its socio-economic and cultural environment. That way Vizag has been lucky to boast of a pageant ...


Vice Admiral R.D. Katari: The architect of modern Indian Navy
His vision for having a strong Naval tradition of Defence led to the establishment of a fighter navy in Free India. He had designed an appropriate strategy for managing national security issues. The first Indian to become the Chief of the Naval ...
Personality
The quintessential Vizagite
"THE justice delivery system in the present economic dispensation, i.e, market economy, has become most essential, if not vital. Hence it requires regulation, both statutory and self. The challenge before the system is to inspire the respect and ...
Young talent
G.V.S.Dilip Chandra a student of Std.III was given the `Balaratna Puraskar' award for the year 2002-2003 for his excellent skill in painting, in a special function on Saturday at Kalabharati. Earlier he has bagged many prizes both at the State ...
Cuisine
A fest of fish
Fish lovers had a ball of a time at The Park Hotel, savouring exotic marine cuisine at the "Only Fish" food festival that concluded on Sunday. The food fete included traditional delights like Bommidalu pulusu, Meen molee, Doi maach, ...
Showbitz
Dream direction
LIKE ANY other aspiring director Puri Jagannath too dreamt big. And when he arrived in Hyderabad in 1989 he headed straight for Annapurna Studios to try his luck but was turned away by the security. A crestfallen Puri was on his way back, when ...
Hot star
WHILE ON Nag, another Hindi movie of his is being dubbed in Telugu for an April release. After the success of Manmadhudu, Nag's popularity is on the rise especially among the women and perhaps cashing in on the sentiment, his Hindi film ...
Bouncing back
"THE NANDI award resurrected my career,'' says Jagapathi Babu. "The award came at a time when the industry had written me off as a star. I took a short reprieve as I was keen on doing some meaningful roles. This gap was treated as the end of my ...
Title fetish
LIKE THE two letters in his name, director Teja it appears, has a fixation for two-letter titles. Almost all his titles excepting Nuvvu Nenu have two letters in Telugu. His first film Chitram, then Jayam and the recently ...
Dance act
FORMER MISS India Neha Dupia, in her first venture down south, is doing an `item' number for a film produced under Sri Durga Arts banner where she will do a jig with Tarun. But she hastens to add that she will not do only item numbers and prefers ...
New release
NANDAMURI HARIKRISHNA'S latest starrer Seethayya is ready to be released on May 28 coinciding with the birth anniversary of his father the late Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao. Harikrishna plays an upright police officer in the movie while ...
Another tome?
JAYA BACHCHAN gave a wonderful gift to hubby dear on his 60th Birthday - the book To be or not to be Amitabh Bachchan. Recently when the book was released in the United States Jaya Bachchan indicated that quite a bit of matter was ...
Southward ho
BOLLYWOOD SEEMS to be looking southwards these days. Remakes of South Indian films particularly Tamil and Telugu are slowly gaining ground in Bollywood. Saathiya, the remake of Mani Ratnam's Alai Payuthe, did rather well. While the ...
Re-living 1984
WAR AND strife inspire many an auteur. A spate of films on Kargil will be released this year. Hawayein, which recaptures Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the aftermath - the riots of 1984 on celluloid in a ...
Events
Regatta competition
The seamanship and grit and determination of the officers and sailors of the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) were on display on a sunny Saturday morning at the Eastern Fleet Jetty here. The Eastern Fleet pulling regatta, is a the highly looked ...
Entertainment
Metro Cultural round up
The Ugadi Puraskar fete, organised annually by the Vedic Seva Trust in Kalabharathi, evoked overwhelming response this year. Recital of the cine devitional songs of Ghantasala by T. Saratchandra and party, pleasantly interspersed with a few by ...
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