The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Pleasure for one, pain for the other?

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Pleasure for one, pain for the other?

Tough with offenders tactful with law-abiding citizens, that is what Hyderabad Kotwal Balwinder Singh is.

His answer to a journalist's question about breath-analyser tests being conducted by the police these days amply proves this.

When the police are determined to curb drunken driving, why permit people to bars and drink is the question. But Mr. Singh says there is a legal way one can escape the embarrassing test.

If two friends wish to party, let one enjoy the drinks and the other keep off.

When the party is over, the person who has not drunk can drive the friend back home!

What if a person wants to go to the bar alone? "It is even more simple. Take an auto-rickshaw or taxi to reach home," says a smiling Mr. Singh.

The storm over the platinum jubilee celebrations of the Telugu film industry is refusing to blow over.

The roar of dissent is only getting louder by the day despite Padma Bhushan Chiranjeevi and Padma Sri Mohan Babu apparently calling a truce.

In the epicentre of the storm, fans went on the rampage. Aggrieved sections of the industryare slowly but steadily coming out against them.

The Small Producers' Forum and the Film Employees' Federation have aired their resentment apart from several film stars over the manner in which the celebrations were held. A section of them have gone ahead demanding the cost of the celebrations be made public.

The highhanded behaviour of the organising committee chairman K.S. Rama Rao towards journalists too came in for stringent criticism with journalists' unions questioning his locus standi. Will it be the storm in a teacup or a tsunami in the making?

At times, even politicians have to speak the bitter truth and that is what HUDA Chairman D. Sudheer Reddy did the other day at a meeting to celebrate World Wetlands Day on the Necklace Road, on the shore of Hussainsagar lake.

Drawing attention to the highly-polluted state of Hussain Sagar lake due to inflow of industrial effluents and untreated domestic sewage for several decades, he said the once drinking water source was not even safe for aquatic life.

He went on to add that it would be better if people stopped coming for morning walks to the lake as the pollutants would hang on in the air.

While the remark did amuse the audience, the HUDA Chairman, however, brought hope with his announcement that the much- awaited mega Hussainsagar lake improvement programme would be grounded next month.

Discrepancies in air traffic do not only cause problems to common passengers, they can even pull down an entire event. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Art of Living) was to deliver the 2nd Mahatma Gandhi endowment lecture at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy on Saturday at 5.30 p.m.First, the function got delayed by an hour.

The Press was waiting. Organisers announced that the guest's aircraft had not received clearance for take-off from Tirupati.

The mediapersons waited still, and then it was informed that the function would begin only at 8.30 p.m!

Marri Ramu,

K.V.S. Madhav, M.L.Melly Maitreyi

and Shubhra Tandon

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