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Wedding celebrations of Salman’s sister begin at Falaknuma
Hyderabad: The wedding celebrations of Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s sister Arpita Khan with businessman Aayush Sharma began at the Taj Falaknuma hotel here Tuesday evening.
The celebrations kicked off with the ‘baraat’ at 4.30 p.m. in the heritage hotel located in the old city area.
The ‘baraat’ included horses and two bands, one from Delhi and one from Hyderabad.
It will be followed by the ‘jaimala’ and ‘phere’. There will be party at night, where Salman and his stepmother Helen will perform. Punjabi singers Mika and Yo Yo Honey Singh will also liven up the party.
The wedding rituals are being performed as per Punjabi Hindu traditions.
Salman’s father Salim Khan, mother Salma, brothers Arbaaz, Sohail and other family members received the baraat.
Top stars from Bollywood and Tollywood, and businessmen were among the 250 guests invited for the wedding.
It was not clear which stars are attending the wedding as a thick security blanket was thrown around the hotel.
While police were managing the outer security ring, the actor’s personal guards and others were keeping a tight vigil inside the hotel.
Salman booked the entire 60-room hotel for Tuesday and Wednesday. The celebrations will conclude Wednesday with a farewell lunch.
Seven folk artists from Rajasthan and many more from Mumbai were specially flown in for Tuesday night’s party.
Hundreds of Salman fans, including young girls, gathered outside the hotel to catch a glimpse of the stars.
The fans, including some from Mumbai, mobbed the vehicles entering the hotel.
The menu for the party includes Deccani cuisine, especially Biryani and Haleem and double ka meetha.
Falaknuma is one of the most beautiful palaces of the Nizam, the ruler of erstwhile Hyderabad State.
The palace, which the Taj Group converted into a luxury hotel and opened four years ago, has 60 lavish rooms, decorated halls and a 101-seat dining hall, said to be the biggest in the world.
Its Durbar Hall, embellished with intricately carved wooden ceilings, parquet flooring, regal walnut wood furniture and handcrafted mirrors, had once hosted guests like King George V and Czar Nicholas II.
Located five km from Charminar, Falaknuma – or ‘mirror of the sky’ in Urdu – is a scorpion-shaped, all-marble palace which was once the residence of Mir Mahboob Ali Khan (1869-1911), the sixth Nizam.
It was Nawab Vaqar-ul-Umra, the Nizam’s prime minister, who built the palace in 1893. Impressed by its magnificence, the Nizam bought it for himself.
A couple of suites including the one used by the Nizam are the most expensive. The hotel charges over Rs.5 lakh a night for the Nizam suite.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
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Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
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The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
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Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
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