Dressed in a white dhoti, with a bright pink tilak on his forehead, Chandu Kokre herded sheep along national highway 60, 30 km southeast of Mumbai, India's financial capital. "It doesn't matter to us," the thin 28-year-old said when asked about the Indian government's delegitimising of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes - 86 per cent of currency in circulation by value. "We don't have bills that exceed Rs 50 and Rs 100," he explained.
He ruled the industry for decades with his great comedy. Today he is not even considered for small movies. In just a year gap, the fate of Tollywood’s biggest star comedian has turned bad.
If the reports from Telugu Desam Party are to be believed, party general secretary Nara Lokesh is most likely to be promoted as the working president of the party sooner or later.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who entered his new official-cum-residential bungalow at Begumpet on Thursday, sought to defend the construction of the new complex, saying it was only for the all-round development of the state.
The demonetisation move of the Narendra Modi government has created more troubles to Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu than his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Housing prices in 42 major cities across India could drop by up to 30 per cent over 6-12 months after the demonetisation of high-value notes, wiping out over Rs. 8 lakh crore worth market value of residential properties sold and unsold by developers since 2008.
Demonetisation seems to have had a major impact on the financial strategies of many big shots in the country including cinema stars.
Two popular Telugu television channels are facing the allegations of manipulating their viewership so as to climb up the ratings data.
The Income Tax department created a big hungama by raiding the houses and offices of mining tycoon and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and serving him notices asking him to explain the details of expenditure incurred on his daughter’s wedding the other day.
The government’s decision to recall high-value banknotes two weeks ago was implemented with “monumental mismanagement” that may shave off at least 2 percentage points from India’s GDP, former prime minister Manmohan Singh told Parliament on Thursday.
Megastar Chiranjeevi is happy that the romantic duets he shot with Kajal Agarwal in Croatia and Slovenia have come out well.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s plan of forcing his party MPs to quit their posts and contest again in the by-elections on the plank of special category status is said to have been put on the backburner.
First it was Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who rushed to Delhi to discuss the fallout of demonetisation on the economy of the state.
Just months after it was commissioned, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao aka KCR, moved into the house of his dreams this morning.
Allu Arjun is teasing NTR by grabbing the directors who approached the Young Tiger. It first happened with Linguswamy and now he has done similarly with writer turned director Vakkantham Vamsi.