Give Time To control price Rise Venkaiah Naidu

Give Time To control price Rise Venkaiah Naidu

Under attack over rising prices, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday that a one-month-old government which is yet to take policy decisions cannot be held responsible for price rise.
With the Budget Session starting on stormy note due to disruptions by Opposition on the issue of price rise and rail fare hike, the Parliamentary Affairs Minister said the government was ready to discuss all issues including price rise but under appropriate rules.
“You cannot make a one-month government responsible for all this price hike and all. We have not taken any new policy decision. ...You have the problem of monsoon, you have the problem of the wrong economic policies of the earlier government,” Mr. Naidu told reporters outside the Parliament here.
Claiming that the government was playing a proactive role to bring down the prices, Mr. Naidu said the Minister of Consumer Affairs had called a meeting which was attended by the Finance Minister as well.
He said the Home Ministry has taken an initiative by ordering a massive crackdown against hoarding of essential commodities including onion and potatoes in Delhi and has also given instructions to other states about what should be done.
On Opposition’s demand for a discussion on the issues of price rise of rail fare hike under an adjournment motion, Naidu said the government is ready to discuss everything, including price rise, depending on the rule and also admissibility of the same by the presiding officer.
“In the Rajya Sabha we said we are ready for discussion, discussion started.... In Lok Sabha also, I stood up and said government is ready for discussion, what rules and all, that is the jurisdiction of the presiding officer of the House.”
“Now as the question hour time is over, we should take it up immediately. Congress should be ready for debate, I don’t know why they are hesitating,” he said.
On a question related to statements by Congress leaders that the party may take the legal route if it is not given the position of Leader of Opposition, Mr. Naidu said “the Constitution is there and every route is open to everybody

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IT Deputy Commission​er Held on Graft Charges

                                              IT Deputy commission​er Held on Graft charges



The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested a Deputy Commissioner of Income-Tax Department at Tirupati for allegedly receiving Rs.3 lakh in bribe to forgo additional tax liabilities on two doctors.
According to the CBI, the I-T officer had demanded Rs.5 lakh from the chartered accountant of the doctors to close the cases against them. He was allegedly receiving the first instalment of Rs.3 lakh at his office when a CBI team nabbed him red-handed

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KCR lays out plans For Telangana Development

KCR lays out plans For Telangana Development

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao today stressed on a "bottoms-up" approach of planning in Telangana State and said he was in no hurry to show visible development for another one or two months. 
At a meeting with a large number of officials from every district at the MCR-HRD Institute here on Monday, Mr. Rao said he aimed at a development strategy that was in the context of Telangana State and tuned to its needs. The administration of the State which was in the context of a combined State till recently will be "reinvented and reoriented" in the changed circumstances. 
In his two and a half hour long speech, Mr. Rao set out his priorities in various sectors, including irrigation, power and welfare, where he identified several lapses in the combined State. 
In irrigation, he said Telangana suffered badly as it lost about 200 tmc ft water storage in minor irrigation sector due to destruction of tanks. A storage of 265 tmc ft in the tanks was guaranteed by Bachawat tribunal in Krishna and Godavari basins but the availability now was only 65 tmc ft. He asked irrigation officials to rejuvenate all the tanks on a war footing. 
The Itchampally project across Godavari in Karimnagar district will be constructed and the inter-State project on Lower Penganga taken up with Maharashtra, he added. 
Mr. Rao said the government was committed to the crop loan waiver over which the Cabinet will take a view in its next meeting. The Collectors will be asked to unearth scams in housing which were deep rooted. A random survey in 593 villages detected misuse of Rs. 235 crore with records being cooked up to show sanction of houses but no beneficiaries. 
The Chief Minister announced the expansion of his Cabinet by month end and the setting up of a State Advisory Council with experts from various walks of life to aid and guide the government. He also said there will be no acquisition of land for special economic zones as 2.20 lakh acres available with the government will be used for industrialisation. 
Mr. Rao came down heavily on illegal constructions in Hyderabad and said the government had identified 58,000 of them recently. All of them will be regulated. In addition to the international airport at Shamshabad, he said the city will have two more at Shamirpet and Ghatkesar. He asked officials to stop reclaiming land on the banks of Tank Bund and Musi. 

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Tempestuous start To Budget session

Tempestuous start To Budget session 

The Budget Session of the Lok Sabha started on a tempestuous note on Monday with members belonging to several Opposition parties storming the Well of the House protesting against inflation and hike in rail fares and prices of petrol, diesel and LPG.
Trouble started as soon as the Question Hour began, with members of the Congress, Trinamool Congress, RJD, SP, Aam Aadmi Party and the Left trooping into the Well raising the issue of prices and rail fare hike.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s repeated pleas to allow the questions to be taken up went unheeded, leading to adjournment of the House for nearly 40 minutes.
Monday was the first day of the Budget session of the new Narendra Modi Government.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) members were also in the Well opposing the ordinance on the Polavaram project.
Slogans like “achha din ayega, mahangai badhayega (good days will come, prices will rise)” and ‘roll back rail fare hike’ were heard. Members also opposed rise in prices of petrol, diesel and LPG.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was seen standing in the aisle, while his party colleagues Jyotiraditya Scindia, Deepinder Singh Hooda, K C Venugopal and several others were in the Well.
RJD’s Pappu Yadav was vociferous in his protest as was TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee and most of his party colleagues.
Bhagwant Singh Mann of AAP was also in the Well and was heard raising the plight of Indians left behind in trouble—torn Iraq.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the House during the entire period of turmoil along with his senior party and Ministerial colleagues L K Advani, Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi was also seated in the front row of the Opposition benches.
Amidst the din, the replies to questions given by Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Labour Minister Narendra Singh Tomar could not be heard.
NCP’s Supriya Sule, who was asked to raise a question on unemployment, shouted that the government’s reply was “unsatisfactory and bureaucratic

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Arima Nambi Tamil Movie Review

Arima Nambi Tamil Movie Review


Cast: Vikram Prabhu, Priya Anand, JD Chakravarthy, Lekha Washington, MS Bhaskar
Direction: Anand Shankar
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 2 hours 31 minutes
 
Synopsis: When Anamika, the girl who he is on a date with, is kidnapped, Arjun goes to the police for help and gets into a dangerous situation from where there is no escape.

Movie Review: Arima Nambi opens with a conversation in a high-end restaurant where we see Arjun Krishna (Vikram Prabhu in a role that is not so different from the one in Ivan Vera Mathiri) and his friends rating girls. 'Oh no, not again,' you cringe and fear what the rest of the film will be like. But then, we get a very nice meet-cute. Arjun sees Anamika ( Priya Anand, just adequate), a confident young girl, in the crowd and approaches her. He woos her with a song, gets her contact and a day later, the two are off on a date — drinking and talking to their hearts' content. Anamika invites Arjun to her home for a drink and everything seems cozy (it is refreshing to see a film that doesn't make a fuss over its leads drinking). And then, Anamika is kidnapped, and her kidnappers mean business. When Arjun tries to go after them, they don't think twice about shooting at him.

All these events happen in the first 20 minutes of the film and that is when you realize that you are in the hands of a confident filmmaker. First-time director Anand Shankar packs in enough background about the two characters so that we care about them. We get why Arjun, who has known Anamika only for two days, will risk his life to save her.

The first half of the film is first rate. There is a genuine thrill in these portions that keeps us on the edge of our seats. This is also when the film feels most plausible. When Arumugham, a cop who takes up the case, saves Arjun when he is about to be shot, it doesn't seem unlikely. He is a thinking cop and MS Bhaskar plays this role in a wonderful manner; we can see the wheels in his mind turning as he goes through the details of the case. Like, when Arjun tells him the details of the car in which Anamika has been kidnapped, he pauses for a beat to process the information and only then calls the control room. Similarly, when Arjun takes on his pursuers for the first time, we are not surprised as we have seen him working out at the gym in a lighter scene. What seemed like a hero-glorification shot earlier (a close-up shot of Arjun's abs) now has context.

There is a fair bit of exposition that feels unneeded. In one scene, Arjun and Arumugan are eavesdropping on the conversation between the villains and Anamika's dad and we get why the kidnap has taken place. Yet, the director makes Arjun explain this to Arumugham, who, we know, is an intelligent cop. Such spoon-feeding should not have been there in a film that is smart enough to know what it wants to be.

The plot, in fact, is all-too familiar and resembles K Bhagyaraj's 1991 comedy thriller Rudhra the most. As in that film, here, too, there is a video of a murder that the villain, a powerful politician, wants to destroy. Both the heroines are damsels in distresses requiring the help of a hero with a presence of mind. There is even a scene of the hero committing a bank robbery (though, they are tonally very different). There are cops who are in collusion with the villain. The all-important video gets destroyed in both films. Finally, even the manner in which the hero indicts the villain is similar. However, the treatment is very Hollywoodish here.

There are scenes which show that Anand Shankar is merely taking a leaf out of Hollywood thrillers. At least two sequences in the second half — a rooftop chase sequence (adapted very well) and events at a police control room (adapted a little clumsily) — are influenced by The Bourne Ultimatum. 'Why am I not getting this?' asks a character, repeating a line from the earlier film. Even a musical cue that crops up at crucial moments resembles what is known as the 'Hans Zimmer horn' sound.

The film also loses some of its verve in the second half, which feels a little stretched and all over the place. And, yet, there is enough cleverness in the writing and assuredness in the execution, especially for a debut film, to make Arima Nambi stand apart from your usual action thrillers. 
 
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Ra Ra Krishnayya Telugu Movie Review

Ra Ra Krishnayya Telugu Movie Review


Cast: Sundeep Kishan, Regina Cassandra, Jagapathi Babu, Tanikella Bharani, Brahmaji, Thagubothu Ramesh, Satyam Rajesh
Direction: Mahesh P
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 2 hours 19 minutes
 
 Story: Krishna (Sundeep) is an ambitious cab driver who hopes to start his own taxi service someday. He saves his money with his boss Manikyam (Tanikella Bharani), who refuses to return Krishna his 6 lakhs. A drunk Krishna gate-crashes Manikyam's daughter, Nandu's (Regina) wedding and kidnaps her.
 
Movie Review: This movie is what they call a 'freemake' or an "unofficial remake" in Telugu cinema jargon. For the uninitiated, the above mentioned terms are used to describe films that are remakes of other films without explicitly stating to be...well, a remake. So going by the aforementioned rationale, this film is a 'freemake' of the Riteish Deshmukh - Genelia-starrer Tere Naal Love Hogaya.
The premise is simple. We have a hard working cab driver, Krishna, who is duped of his hard earned money by his cunning boss. In rather hilarious fit of drunken rage he kidnaps the boss's daughter Nandeswari aka Nandu, who by the way is only too happy. Why? Because she doesn't like the guy her dad was getting her married to. So when Kirshna realizes his folly the morning and decides to take her back to her father she blackmails him into making a ransom call to her father. The plot takes the perfunctory unexpected twists designed to be funny.
It turns out our man has a past which catches up to him. That's revealed in the flashback after the statutory interval bang. It turns out Krishha has an overbearingly loving and goofy brother Jagapathy Babu, who continues their family business of kidnapping. It's a free for all from then on.
The problem with the movie is that the gags just don't come off. Despite the over the top histrionics that Jagapathy Babu brings to his character, it all just looks too forced. Same is the case with Tanikella Bharani who flaunts a very forced Tamil accent. The comedy track involving Thagubothu Ramesh is funny in parts but largely on the expected lines. He's always playing the same drunkard act isn't he?

As for the lead pair, Regina might just have outshone Sundeep with her screen presence. While Sundeep tries hard, he still has some way to go with his comedy and acting in general. Well the music seems to have been inspired by hit numbers from all over and gives you that feeling of dejavu all through. The cinematography is decent though. 
 
 

Ranbir Kapoor Has Asked Katrina To Stay Away From Deepika

Ranbir Kapoor Has Asked Katrina To Stay Away From Deepika

It is generally believed that if you are friends with your ex, you either harbour a deep desire to get back or you are still in love with you ex-partner. So whatever it is ex never leaves you even if you move on in your life. And it seems it is one truth that Ranbir Kapoor is not able to shrug off. We hear he has asked Katrina Kaif to stay away from Deepika Padukone.
Whatever happened between Deepika and Ranbir has become a past, which both the ex-lovers have supposedly forgotten and buried. Their new-found friendship was at full display in Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani.
Their closeness raised many eyebrows but they sailed through all that. But it seems while Deepika has moved on to Ranveer Singh, Ranbir Kapoor is still finding her presence in his life a bit disturbing as he’s apparently dating Katrina.
It is heard that Ranbir will soon start shooting with Deepika for Imtiaz Ali’s film Tamaasha in Corsica and Ranbir doesn’t want Katrina on the sets.
Does he fear a catfight or does he think Deepika and Katrina will come to blows for him? Well, we just think Ranbir is just avoiding any mess in his life.

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NASA Builds worlds First Flying Observatory

NASA Builds worlds First Flying Observatory

NASA has fitted a 17-tonne telescope with an effective diameter of eight feet on a modified Boeing 747 jetliner that the US space agency is using as a flying observatory to study stars.
The infrared telescope called “Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy” (SOFIA) is mounted behind a sliding door that reveals it to the skies.
The jet can stay airborne for over 12 hours and its range is up to 6,625 nautical miles (7,624 miles).
According to NASA, “The data provided by SOFIA cannot be obtained by any other astronomical facility on the ground or in space.”
SOFIA is mobile, so it can better spot transient space events like supernovae and comets.
The telescope, built with the help from German Aerospace Centre (DLR), can easily be repaired or reprogrammed when necessary.
NASA plans SOFIA — now in Germany for its last extensive maintenance and refitting leg — to launch in 2015 which will keep flying for another 20 years, wired.com reported. 

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