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Salman Khan takes up a fight with Bunty Walia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="storydiv" id="storydiv" style="display: block;"><div class="Normal" style="text-align: justify;"> July 2008, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Salman-Khan">Salman Khan</a> fought at a birthday party. Three years later, history repeats itself. This time, however it wasn't his girlfriend's birthday, nor did he fight with his close friend. 
 
 On Thursday night, at Maanyata Dutt's birthday bash, the Dabangg man had yet another fight. This time however, it wasn't with any other Khan but filmmaker Bunty Walia. 
 
 <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay-Dutt">Sanjay Dutt</a> threw a lavish birthday party for his wife Maanyata and invited all his close friends home, which needless to say, included both Salman and Bunty. 
 
 According to sources from the party, Salman, who walked in well past midnight, went straight to Bunty and started arguing with him. Within no time, the fight became ugly. Before it could come to fisticuffs, Dutt's business manager and close friend <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dharam-Oberoi">Dharam Oberoi</a> intervened and took Walia away. 
 
 A source told Mumbai Mirror, "Sanju held the party to bring in his wife Maanyata's birthday. He had invited all his close friends including Ameesha Patel, Neha Uberoi, Fardeen Khan, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Zayed-Khan">Zayed Khan</a>, Ashish Chowdhury and many others. 
 
 Filmmakers <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/David-Dhawan">David Dhawan</a>, Indra Kumar and Rajkumar Santoshi were also present. Salman Khan walked in to the party around 2 am, well past midnight. On reaching, he greeted everyone and then bumped into Bunty Walia. Salman was already in high spirits. On seeing Bunty, he started arguing with the filmmaker. 
 
 After some time, the argument got so loud that despite the music playing at the party, all people could hear were Salman and Bunty. 
 
 They started abusing each other. Had it not been for Dharam Oberoi's intervention, who knows what would have happened. Dharam separated the two and took Bunty away. Had he not intervened at the right time, the fight would have become physical." 
 
 "Sanjay Dutt, the host of the party had incidentally, gone down at that time to drop <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Fardeen-Khan">Fardeen Khan</a> and his wife to their car. He was nowhere to be seen when all this happened. 
 
 In fact, Walia was heard telling one of the guests, that since he did not want to create a scene, he would rather leave. When Bunty was leaving, he bumped into Sanju who was coming in after dropping Fardeen," added the source. 
 
 Needless to say, Sanju who is known as one of Salman Khan's closest friends in the industry, did not take much time to realise that something was wrong. 
 
 "Dutt chose to keep quiet about the incident. In fact, after that he partied with Salman and the rest of the guests till the wee hours of the morning," said the source. 
 
 Salman Khan and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bunty-Walia">Bunty Walia</a>, it seems have been on not-so-good terms for a while now. A source informed, "Bunty Walia and Salman's brother <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sohail-Khan">Sohail Khan</a> were business partners at one point in time. 
 
 However, after Bunty and Sohail went their separate ways, all has not been well between the Khan clan and Bunty. In fact, Salman and Bunty had got into a fight before as well." 
 
 Bunty Walia, Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan did not reply to our text messages. </div></div></div>

Salman Khan takes up a fight with Bunty Walia

July 2008, Salman Khan fought at a birthday party. Three years later, history repeats itself. This time, however it wasn't his girl...

Mahindra Satyam defers salary hike, incites fears of lay-off

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVP5L3-HFJWYJfoLYqkugpdOwANOLVK1_D7ZYTFhLJKFZ_ZISugdf4yOMFO7bCT7xYTWDibXAXzkLXE9d-TwWjNRn5R3epGgOJU68bM1y-2nl_hoRd7BrW7X-Nm5mP6bCT0H7W8Y90Uw/s1600/thumb.cms+SATYAM+TOLLYANDHRA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVP5L3-HFJWYJfoLYqkugpdOwANOLVK1_D7ZYTFhLJKFZ_ZISugdf4yOMFO7bCT7xYTWDibXAXzkLXE9d-TwWjNRn5R3epGgOJU68bM1y-2nl_hoRd7BrW7X-Nm5mP6bCT0H7W8Y90Uw/s320/thumb.cms+SATYAM+TOLLYANDHRA.jpg" width="247" /></a></div> 
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS4zUcSdhtoXS6N94tibhYy_mTVRulsV0giWQwwT6L1ra6fX3B7f6glXRu85SSGRAQjqLEdy0AcKWbIic8nCQM8J5gMKXRyL3G5UbD5KWhqjwZJYKp0anZj1zIB2d8BdO9LYMMfxGRoAg/s1600/Mahindra-Satyam_0+TOLLYANDHRA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS4zUcSdhtoXS6N94tibhYy_mTVRulsV0giWQwwT6L1ra6fX3B7f6glXRu85SSGRAQjqLEdy0AcKWbIic8nCQM8J5gMKXRyL3G5UbD5KWhqjwZJYKp0anZj1zIB2d8BdO9LYMMfxGRoAg/s320/Mahindra-Satyam_0+TOLLYANDHRA.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>HYDERABAD: Software services firm Mahindra Satyam has decided to defer salary increment to employees till October, instead of giving them out in the June quarter as is customary in most IT firms. The company intends to send out letters communicating the revised salaries by September and give the increments effective October 1, according to an e-mail sent to employees by Hari T, chief people officer. 
 
"We have still some ground to cover on the operating efficiencies and our business units are working overtime to ensure that we can reach industry norms," the e-mail said. The company's decision has not gone down well with employees. Mahindra Satyam's peers, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro have already revised salaries. 
 
According to the e-mailed letter, individual letters reflecting performance ratings and promotions (where applicable) will be communicated to employees on July 31. "We have walked together towards a destination that we know would make us all feel very proud. While we had many choices in front of us, we had collectively chosen to sign-up on one overarching objective - to take Mahindra Satyam on the growth path once again," the letter added. 
 
It also pointed out that multiple initiatives were underway to get Satyam back to its high performance trajectory and the interim time delay and subsequent margin improvement plans will be to the benefit of the associate, unit and the organisation in the long run. 
 
"One possible reason they may be doing this is because they could be expecting some upward revision in pricing from existing clients which may off-set the impact of the wage hike. Had the hikes been given in the current quarter, their margins would have taken a hit," said a Chennai based IT analyst working with a domestic brokerage firm. He said the wage hike could erode the company's margins by about 350 basis points. 
 
Employees, however, were not pacified and some feared another round of lay-offs. "We are afraid the company may lay off another 2,000 people. We cannot even apply anywhere else as we are yet to receive the pay revision letter," said an employee. "It is an effort to show good revenues and high EBITDA margins. Once wage hikes are given the operating profit margins may come down to about 7% from the present 13%. This will be major problem for a company whose margins are considerably lower than its peers. Besides our billing rates are lower than others in the industry," added another. 
 
 After taking over scam hit Satyam Computer Services in April 2009, Tech Mahindra had taken up a major restructuring. The staff strength of the company had come down from 44,000 people in FY09 to about 27,000 in FY10. 
 
In an FAQs to the employees, the management said "Our continuing efforts to balance our revenues and expenses has been a daunting task and we need to finalize these margin expansion plans and implement across the organisation and hence the time required." </div>

Mahindra Satyam defers salary hike, incites fears of lay-off

HYDERABAD: Software services firm Mahindra Satyam has decided to defer salary increment to em...