Telephone and restaurant bills, airline tickets and visits to beauty parlours will turn dearer from June 1, when the 0.5 per cent Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC) kicks in.

It will apply to all taxable services, and CENVAT (central value added tax) credit will be available to service providers on the cess paid on input services, the Finance Ministry has said. However, the input credit on the Krishi Kalyan Cess can only be used for discharge of the KKC liability.

Unlike other top directors who have done movies with relatively small heroes at one point or the other Trivikram Srinivas made his debut as director with a well known actor of those times Tarun on a big banner like Sravanthi Movies.

BJP high command is planning to nominate Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu to Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh through TDP quota. However the anti-TDP and anti-Naidu group in BJP are not at all happy with this decision of the high command and see that benefiting TDP.

Center is in favor of giving Railway Zone to AP and are planning to announce it just before the GVMC elections.

Is an overzealous Allu Arjun causing others in his camp and opposite camp anxious of him? Going by the way the summer has panned out Allu Arjun has surely become a cause of anxiousness everywhere.

Definitely proud of the way we played this season, said the RCB captain.

Virat Kohli was dignity personified in defeat but did admit that he did not feel good finishing second best as he termed his and AB de Villiers dismissal as the “big blow” in their defeat at the hands of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL final.

After fifty one days of intense battle we finally have the winners of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2016 - Sunrisers Hyderabad. Just like in 2009, the team from Hyderabad had the better of the team from Bengaluru in the summit clash.

Sunrisers' eight-run victory on Sunday (May 29) happened to the second lowest in terms of margin of runs in an IPL final after the six-run difference between the finalists in 2009.