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33 new COVID19 cases take AP tally to 2051, death toll increases to 46
VIJAYAWADA: The number of COVID-19 cases linked to the Koyembedu Market in Chennai continues to be on a rise in the state. Out of 33 new cases reported in the last 24 hours by Tuesday morning, 20 of them were of those who visited the Koyembedu market.
According to the media bulletin issued by the State Command Control Room (Health) on Tuesday morning, with 33 new cases, the total number of positive cases in the state increased to 2051, while one more person succumbing to the virus in Krishna district, the number of casualties increased to 46.
On the brighter side, the number of discharged in the state continues to be more than the new cases reported and crossed the 1000 mark. It now stands at 1056. Till Tuesday morning in the last 24 hours, 58 people were discharged after their recovery. A record of 10,730 samples were tested between 9 a.m. on Monday and 9 a.m on Tuesday.
Among the 33 new cases, 10 cases were from Chittoor district and all of them were reported to have visited the Koyembedu market. Now the total number of cases in the district increased to 131. Similarly, 9 new cases reported in Nellore and one case reported in East Godavari were linked to Koyembedu Market in Chennai. The tally of those districts increased to 111 and 47 respectively.
Nine new cases in Kurnool took the count of positive cases in the district to 584 and 4 new cases in Krishna district took the total number of cases in the district to 346.
Out of 58 people discharged, 35 are from Krishna district, Kurnool -17, Anantapur – 3, Kadapa – 1, Srikakulam – 1, and West Godavari – 1.
Bigg Boss 4 Review Meeting: Key Decision Taken?
One of the most awaited reality show is none other than Bigg Boss. Ever since its arrival into Telugu circuits, the show became quite successful too and the second season has got highest TRP’s due to Kaushal and co’s crazy antics inside the house. So when is Bigg Boss 4 going to turn up on TV?
Apparently, with the lockdown restrictions, social distancing norms and other things in place, definitely Bigg Boss makers will not be risking to keep 15-20 contestants in a closed place for the sake of the show. Even if they do, any legal petition from anyone would push them into trouble. So in these turbulent times, they have to take a key decision, regarding which a review meeting is said to have got held recently.
Talk is coming out that like Wimbledon and IPL, even Bigg Boss is also called off for this year, as things are not even 1% favourable for the show to run. Though some celebs have already agreed to enter the house after getting Covid-19 tests done, and Nagarjuna likely to return as the host, the show’s producers are said to have taken a decision to call it off this year.
Anyway, another final decision will be taken regarding this decision after the Central government announces lockdown exit plan and how new rules will be enforced when it comes to TV and Cinema production.
Ram to His Fans: Hold Back Celebrations
Ram Pothineni turns a year older on May 15. His fans have already been trending the birthday hashtag on social media.
But during this lockdown period, all stars are requesting their fans not to indulge in any activity on the streets or public places.
Ram Charan, Allu Arjun, and other popular stars who had celebrated their birthdays during this quarantine period made an appeal to their fans not to indulge in any celebrations.
Ram Pothineni now wrote a letter to his fans asking to hold back celebrations this time.
“To my dearest fans, I know how much you love me & I feel blessed to see you all celebrate my birthday every year. However I’d like you all to know that I love you all too & I’d want you all to hold back the celebrations this year,” he wrote.
He also said that the best birthday they would give to him is staying at their home.
“The safety of You & Your loved ones is of utmost importance to me & I’d like to see you all come out of this stronger than before. I shall consider this my birthday gift from all of you. Thank you all for your love.. #RAPO,” he concluded.
The ‘iSmart Shankar’ star wrapped up his work for “RED” but the film’s release has been put on hold due to lockdown. Post this crisis, he will not announce the release date of “RED” but also sign new movies.
Opposition leaders condemn KCR’s Rythu Bandhu remark
HYDERABAD: Opposition leaders on Monday criticized Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for saying Rythu Bandhu amounts should not be given to those who do not follow the Telangana government’s instructions on sowing seeds.
At an all-party meeting, CPI State secretary Chada Venkatreddy, TPCC working president Ponnam Prabhakar, AICC secretary SA Sampath Kumar, TJS president Prof M Kodandaram, Telangana Inti Party president Cheruku Sudhakar and senior TDP leader P Saibaba, asked the government to file a review petition in the Supreme Court on GO 3.
The apex court had abolished GO 3, which preserves the rights of tribals allowing only locals to work as government teachers. The leaders also condemned the attitude of the State government for not opposing the AP government’s decision to enhance the capacity of the Pothireddypadu project. Meanwhile, BJP State general secretary G Premender Reddy alleged that the government failed to resolve farmers’ issues.
Rana’s Marriage With Miheeka In December
Curtains are down now for many rumours. There have been many interviews where this tall handsome actor faced questions relating to his marriage and gossips relating to the same in websites.
The most eligible bachelor of Tollywood, Rana Daggubati is getting married this December. He has tweeted a picture of him with the girl little while ago.
The bride is the gorgeous Miheeka Bajaj, the daughter of Bunty Bajaj who runs Krsala Jewellers.
The wedding is going to happen in the month of December.
Rana is now busy on the projects Virataparvam, Aranya and Hiranya Kasapa.
Industry colleagues and fans immediately flooded the post with congratulatory messages.
Actress Samantha Akkineni commented: “Dead… died”
Anil Kapoor wrote: “Congratulations my Hyderabad son. I am so happy. The best thing to happen to both of you.”
Tamannaah Bhatia and Kiara Advani shared “congratulations”.
Sushanth A commented: “Wow! Congratulations brother!”
Kriti Kharbanda commented: “So so so happy for you Rana! Congratulations.”
Miheeka Bajaj is an event planner, who owns the Dew Drop Design Studio in Mumbai.
While fans are super happy for the couple, they are also curious to learn whether a wedding is on the cards anytime soon!
AP ministers spend night in gas-leak affected villages
Four Andhra Pradesh Ministers and two MPs of the ruling YSR Congress Party spent Monday night in villages affected by gas leak from LG Polymers India factory to instill confidence among the villagers who returned to their homes four days after the disaster.
Ministers Avanthi Srinivas, Botsa Satyanarayana, Dharmana Krishnadas, K. Kanna Babu, and MPs Vijayasai Reddy and MVV Satyanarayana stayed in the five villages near the chemical plant, interacted with the villagers, and tried to reassure them on their safety.
Vijayasai Reddy, who spent the night outside a house in Venkatapuram, said the effort proved that the government was not merely paying compensation but also wanted to instill confidence among people affected by the gas leak.
Twelve people were killed and over 400 taken ill following leak of styrene gas from the chemical plant on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam in the early hours of May 7.
About 10,000 people from these villages were evacuated and kept in rehabilitation camps in the city. They started returning on Monday evening after the government declared the villages safe for living.
On the direction of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Ministers and MPs spent the night in the villages to instill confidence among the people.
Tourism minister Avanthi Srinivas, who spent the night at a house in Padmanabhanagar, went around in the village on Tuesday morning and interacted with villagers to know their problems.
The Minister claimed that normalcy has returned to the village. Agriculture Minister K. Kannababu said the villagers spent a peaceful night after four days.
The ministers announced that health camps will be conducted in all villages in the next 100 days to monitor the health of the villagers.
Vijaya Sai Reddy assured the people that the villages will be developed as green and safe zone. The government will arrange food for the villagers, provide 25 tonnes of fodder for the cattle and ensure every possible help till the situation completely returns to normal.
They said volunteers will take up enumeration from Tuesday for payment of compensation. The government has announced a compensation of Rs 10,000 each to the people in affected villages.
The Ministers on Monday presented documents to eight out of 12 bereaved families relating to payment of ex gratia of Rs 1 crore each. The payment for remaining cases will be made in a day or two.
As per the announcement made by the Chief Minister, those hospitalised for serious ailments would get Rs 10 lakh each and others admitted would receive Rs 1 lakh each. The entire cost of hospitalization will be borne by the government.
Sai Reddy back in action in Vizag!
YSR Congress party general secretary and parliamentary party leader V Vijay Sai Reddy, who has been avoiding coming to Visakhapatnam ever since the poisonous gas leakage from LG Polymers Ltd took place claiming the lives of 12 persons on May 7, is back in action.
Vijay Sai Reddy, who tried to come to Visakhapatnam along with chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on the fateful day in helicopter, was asked to get down by the chief minister from his car. In his place, Jagan took health minister Alla Nani along with him Visakhapatnam.
This led to a lot of speculations in the media stating that all is not well between him and Jagan and that the latter expressed unhappiness over the way Sai Reddy allegedly mishandled the Coronavirus situation in Visakhapatnam.
For the next four days, Sai Reddy was nowhere to be seen in the port city, at a time when everybody thought he would be in the centre stage of relief operations.
Everybody thought the MP was forced to stay out the works, which were entrusted to a group of ministers led by agriculture minister K Kanna Babu.
But on Monday, the YSRC leader was back in Visakhapatnam. He had not only overseen the relief operations in the affected villages, but also slept along with the ministers in one of the villages.
Sai Reddy clarified to the reporters that he could not come to Visakhapatnam on the fateful day, because there was no place in the helicopter and he had thought the presence of health minister was more important than him at the spot.
“It was unnecessarily made an issue by the yellow media and the TDP leaders,” he said.
The MP said he had adopted Visakhapatnam and there was no question of running away from my responsibilities during crisis times.
“I will put in all my energies for the development of Visakhapatnam city,” he said.
Sai Reddy said the chief minister wants this area to be made into a safe and green zone and so, there was no need for the people to worry.
“We shall stay put in the villages to give confidence to the people and see that everybody is safe. We have brought the people here only after ensuring that there are no chemicals in the air here,” he said.
Warner is back with #RamulooRamulaa
Australian cricketer David Warner seems to have become a fan of Telugu cinema. With the TikTok videos of ‘Butta Bomma’ song and ‘Pokiri’ dialogue, Warner was all over the social media these days. And continuing this, the SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) batsman now came up with ‘Ramuloo Ramulaa’ song version of TikTok.
The official Twitter handle of SRH has shared the TikTok video of Warner’s version of ‘Ramuloo Ramulaa.’ “Hit like if you think this family should move to Hyderabad permanently,” tweeted SRH.
Grooving to the tunes of #AlaVaikunthapurramuloo again ?
Hit like if you think this family should move to Hyderabad permanently ??#RamuloRamula #OrangeArmy #SRH | @davidwarner31 pic.twitter.com/LAj1UDYqXl
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) May 12, 2020
“He and she are back again @candywarner1 thoughts?? What’s the song??,” wrote Warner with the video in his Instagram.
This is entertaining stuff from the Australian batsman who is delighting the SRH fans. For sure, he would certainly come up with more videos in the coming days.
Neha Sharma opens up about her journey being an outsider in B town
As of late, in a recent interview held on insta live chat with the extremely glamorous and underrated glam doll Neha Sharma, where she pensively addressed each one of the inquiries about her new web series, films and journey so far in Bollywood to OTT platform.
She shed light on how she has made the best of the opportunities that have been offered to her as an outsider in the business. Firstly, when questioned about how she was spending the quarantine time, she replied by saying that she was taking care of her skin, hair, learning cooking and honing skills in painting.
In a candid conversation, she explained about landing on an unexpected opportunity to star in Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, Neha Sharma said, “See, I’m not from the film business or neither do I have any family background, I’m an outsider and that’s never going to change. So, we really don’t receive many opportunities to us to feature in such wonderful roles.” she said.
Vicky Sadanha, the casting director of Tanhaji film had approached me for the role. Obviously, the main cast is always pre-decided and these people (casting directors) are on board to suggest the producer and Director that they visualise a Particular person in the required roles. Fortunately, Vicky was casting for this one, and they were looking for a typical gorgeous features of a girl for the role of Kamla Devi. So I met Om (Raut), the Director of the film, and he felt like I would fit the bill and then it pulled off.
She added saying that you have a minimal choice to opt from the roles offered to you. On the off chance, you can also make your own films or act in the picture that you create. On the contrary, you can only pick from what is given to us. So, from whatever that has been offered, I’ve picked the best ones and I hope that with more work gravitating towards me, I get to do more impressive work.
Green signal to domestic flights from May 18th
India is easing the restrictions slowly on all the sectors. After the Indian Railways restarting its operations, Central Government gave green signal for domestic flights from May 18th. A special committee appointed to check all the scenarios gave a nod for the flights operations.
Airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore will be restarting their domestic services from May 18th. Few more airports will be added to the list in near future. Officials mentioned that the necessary precautions will be taken at the airports and in the airlines.
Few more sectors apart from transportation like IT are getting relaxation from the Central Government. Few IT services companies are still considering work from home option for their employees while few companies are expanding their office buildings area to accommodate the employees who are practicing social distancing. Majority of the IT companies started their hiring activities and the economy may take a positive slope soon.
#8YearsOfGabbarSingh: That’s Power Of Powerstar Fans!
Powerstar Pawan Kalyan fans who call themselves as devotees have shown their social media stamina once again. Yesterday i.e, on May 11th, Pawan’s ‘Gabbar Singh’ has completed eight years of its theatrical release and fans have celebrated this moment on social media. Regarding the same, they have smashed all the previous records.
Powerstar fans started their hungama from Sunday 6 PM and till Monday 6 PM, they have made more than One Crore tweets in the span of 24 hours. This is the biggest trend on a movie on Twitter till date. So far no hero and his movie had garnered 10 million tweets or comments but Powerstar fans made a total of 13.8 million impressions which is a mammoth.
But in the recent times, this sort of social media trend has become common. Moreover heroes will personally get involved in such trends and then enters heroes PROs and with the help of fake accounts, they would keep tweeting or commenting on that particular movie which once scored a blockbuster.
On the contrary, this doesn’t happen in Pawan Kalyan or Powerstar fans case. Because Pawan Kalyan hardly take about his films and so he doesn’t have proper PRO related stuff. All Pawan have is hardcore fans and when they started this trend, director Harish Shankar and producer Bandla Ganesh have encouraged them. And that’s how ‘Gabbar Singh’ was trending from Sunday evening to Morning mid-night.
That’s Powerstar fans!
Press meet ends abruptly after Trump asks Chinese-origin reporter not to ask ‘nasty questions’
NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump abruptly ended his White House news conference Monday following combative exchanges with reporters Weijia Jiang of CBS News and Kaitlan Collins of CNN.
Jiang asked Trump why he was putting so much emphasis on the amount of coronavirus tests that have been conducted in the United States.
“Why does that matter?” Jiang asked. “Why is this a global competition to you if everyday Americans are still losing their lives and we’re still seeing more cases every day?”
Trump replied that “they’re losing their lives everywhere in the world. And maybe that’s a question you should ask China. Don’t ask me. Ask China that question.”
He called for another question, and there was no immediate response.
“Sir, why are you saying that to me, specifically?” Jiang asked. Jiang, who has worked for CBS News since 2015, was born in Xiamen, China, and emigrated to the United States with her family at age 2.
Trump said he would say that to “anyone who asks a nasty question.”
“It’s not a nasty question,” Jiang said. “Why does that matter?”
Trump again asked for another question, then said, “Nah, that’s OK” and waved off CNN’s Collins when she approached the microphone.
“You pointed to me,” Collins said.
The president said, “I pointed to you and you didn’t respond.” Collins said she was giving Jiang the time to finish her questioning.
“Can I ask a question?” Collins said.
With that, Trump called an end to the news conference, held in the White House Rose Garden, and walked away.
Jiang and Collins wore masks to the news conference, as did most reporters, following the recent reports that two White House employees — an aide to Vice President Mike Pence and a valet to the president — had tested positive for the coronavirus.
KTR face huge criticism for his negligence
There is no need to threaten someone with knives or deadly weapons these days. Just a cough or sneeze is enough to scare them out. These are Corona’s days and everyone need to be careful as well as responsible. Most importantly, leaders and especially people’s representatives need to be inspirational to the common people.
This is all about Telangana IT Minister K Taraka Rama Rao who was seen suffering from cold and was regularly coughing in public. KTR went to his own constituency Sirisilla and started many textile works in Tagallapalli’s Baddelapalli. There are many people around him and KTR was seen sneezing so many times and he was constantly wiping his nose with a handkerchief.
These are COVID-19 times and the Chief Minister’s son sneezing and coughing in the public is not a small issue. More ever it isn’t rainy or winter season to catch a cold very often. He wasn’t wearing masks and was seen using his pink colour handkerchief all the time.
Now many people in social media are criticizing KTR’s negligence. There are questioning this Telangana minister about the emergency of his presence in the development works when he was suffering from the symptoms related to COVID-19. So, what is your answer KTR Garu?
Is Sai Tej going to bid good bye to Solo Life?
Young mega hero Sai Tej has made grand comeback last year with two hits in his career. Films Chitralahari and Pratiroju Pandage turned out to be successful ventures and brought in the lost market for this mega hero.
Sai Tej is currently playing lead role in the movie Solo Bratuke So Betteru which has Nabha Natesh playing the female lead role. Shooting of this film has happened at a brisk pace and makers have thought to release the movie on May 1st.
However due to lock down, theaters were shut down which means the film will have to search for new release date. Apart from this movie, Sai Tej has agreed to play lead role in Deva Katta’s direction which is a socio political thriller. Shooting of this film will kick start post lock down lift.
As per the latest buzz in the industry, Sai Tej is going to bid good bye to his solo life and will get married. Sai Tej is currently 33 years old and recently in a latest interview he said that, I promised to my mother that I will get married at the age of 34. Sai Tej will turn 34 in this October. So there are chances that he is going to enter wed lock this year.
