Senthil Kumar, like most of the team that worked on Eega, hasn’t spent enough time with his family in the last few months. On Friday, he took his family to watch the buzz unfold in a single screen theatre in Kukatpally to see how the audience reacts to the project and came away humbled by the response. Besides technical wizardry, he is glad that people have made an emotional connect with the fly. “It was one of the toughest films I’ve shot,” he says.

Will the Indian shooters ride on the momentum and finish with a rich haul of medals in London? From silver in Athens to gold in Beijing, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Abhinav Bindra had lifted Indian sports to lofty standards on the Olympic stage.While Bindra regained the hunger to compete and qualified for his fourth Olympics, after sitting idly on the twin peaks as the world and Olympic champion, Rathore could not get a berth for his third Olympics despite shooting a world record 148 out of 150 in double trap in the Asian clay championship this year.

Actor Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao also known as Junior NTR has categorically refuted allegations that he was behind the political machinations of his close associate and TDP MLA from Gudivada, Kodali Srivenkateswara Rao alias Nani.

The MLA was suspended for ‘anti-party activities’ minutes after he met YSR Congress honorary president, Vijayalakshmi at her Banjara Hills residence on Monday. In a blow to the party on a day when it is holding its extended executive meeting, Mr. Nani is likely to join the YSR Congress and expected to meet Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy at the Chanchalguda prison later in the day.

These counselling sessions have provided an opportunity for Eamcet qualified students and their parents to interact with senior academicians, who presented their views on different streams of Engineering, Pharmacy, Medicine, Dental Sciences, Biotechnology and other allied subjects.