However, the Indian duo of Venkat Gaurav Prasad and Juhi Dewangan suffered a crushing 8-21, 4-21 loss to Denmark's Mathias Thyrri and Mai Surrow, the mixed doubles first round match lasting barely 21 minutes.
The victim was 35-year-old B Prashant Reddy, Venkat's close friend and business partner.
Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth will meet compatriot HS Prannoy in his opening match, while former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap will square off against a qualifier.
Venkat got himself admitted to the Apollo Hospital soon after the shooting incident in which his business partner B Prashant Reddy died under mysterious circumstances
The actor sports a new look and plays the role of a don in the film.
Images from Sunny Leone's Tamil debut.
Nagarjuna plays an asura who gets up after a deep sleep of 1000 years and wants to fight the gods.
Curtains were wrung down on the seven-year-old case of Maoist attack on the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu with the additional sessions court in Tirupati indicting four of the 30 accused and awarded them punishment on Friday.
Jaganmohan Reddy will be sworn in as chief minister on May 30.
The Telugu film industry get together for a grand wedding.
After weeks of bargaining, discussing and protesting, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Telugu Desam Party came to a seat-sharing arrangement for the May 7 polls in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday. But will this combine be able to achieve the same feat it did in 1999, asks Vicky Nanjappa.
Bussa Krishna installed a 6-feet statue of the US president near his house and offers prayers daily.
The hit pair will come together for debutant director Chandoo Mondeti's Karthikeya.
President Ram Nath Kovind presented Padma awards to 73 individuals, some posthumously, at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday.
Vishnu Manchu comes back after a short hiatus with Dhenikaina Ready, a fun Telugu film packaged with all the entertaining staples for a family outing, says Shobha Warrier
Mahat Raghavendra chats about his Telugu debut film in this exclusive conversation.
The film is a family entertainer and also stars Hansika Motwani.
The young actor talks about his new film Lovely.
The Ranga Reddy district police has arrested two stringers of Telugu news channels on charges of raping and robbing two women in Viqarabad town.
Ranbaxy, Dr Reddy's and other Indian drug makers may cut production as overseas buyers, hurt by the credit crunch, defer export orders. The move could also lower the country's drug exports by at least 10 per cent in the year ending March 2010, industry experts say."Many of our members have been intimated by their importers to stop shipments until further notice," said Venkat Jasti, chairman, Pharmaceutical Exports Promotion Council.
Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Dr K Keshav Rao has submitted his resignation to the party high command, after the Hyderabad police filed a case of murder against his son Venkat on Monday.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, on Saturday, felicitated 2018 Commonwealth Games medallists Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu among others at Pragathi Bhavan.
Padmanabham said the government has assured him it would obtain the report of a commission on backward classes (for inclusion of the Kapus in Backward Classes), within seven months instead of nine, if possible, and allocate Rs 1,000 crore annually to Kapu (welfare) corporation from next year.
A look at Telugu releases this Christmas!
As the dust finally settles on the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections 2019 and Bharatiya Janata Party along with its NDA allies emerges as the clear winner, here is a list of who won in each of the 7 phases of elections.
Tamil film Vadacurry is a commendable effort, says S Saraswathi.
Olympic medallists P V Sindhu and Saina Nehwal made a resounding start to their women's singles campaign but it was Sameer Verma who hogged the limelight with a stunning straight-game win over Korean Son Wan Ho in men's event in the opening round of the India Super Series in New Delhi on Wednesday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
'What an irreplaceable loss to our film fraternity' Tamil film folk pay tribute to Manorama.
A digitally re-mastered print of Shiva will shortly be re-released in theatres in November.
Kerala, Andhra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are facing a severe drought this year, affecting livelihoods as well as lives.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday.
Naidu was an ABVP activist during the Emergency and was arrested and jailed.
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