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Long power cut around Jajmau

 Recently, Jajmau residents faced a long power cut. It was quite intolerable. Some residents were reportedly sheltered at their relatives' residences in nearby localities. It was definitely a harrowing experience, undoubtedly. People, anyhow, tolerated the worst situation. Such a long-duration power failure in the main localities of the Jajmau area left hapless residents, old ladies, young mothers, and others leaving their homes for relatives' homes, where power supply continued without any disruption.  A totally different scene erupted over a little longer power disruption in Jajmau. There was no clear-cut information about the restoration of the power supply. The residents honestly endured the unsatisfactory situation with the support of an inverter up to 07 a.m.  Certain families moved to their relatives' places to beat the heat.  Even the political leaders kept on asking for the exact timing of the restoration of the normal electricity supply. It was only possibl...

Tees Maar Khan

Had Nizam of Hyderabad not hunted thirty tigers, this title would not associated with him. It was said to be just a title of bravery. As history goes, the Nizam got this very title after hunting as many as 30 tigers in an elongated period of ten years. In the ideal of his flawless shot, the title was given to him.

About 140-year-old this proverb Tees Maar Khan is most often reiterated. Since Mir Mehboob Ali Khan, the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad had hunted thirty tigers, this title was bestowed upon him. 

He set up camp in the forests between 1880 and 1890, killing thirty tigers in the process. 

As a result, Mir Mehboob Ali was known as Tees Maar Khan. Despite being a hunter; he was also a poet. He wrote numerous poems in Telugu and Urdu. In addition to Urdu and Telugu, he spoke Persian fluently.

After him, his grandson Azam Jah, in the year 1935 surpassed him by killing as many as 35 leopards in just 33 days. 

Again, around 300 tigers had been killed by British military officer Colonel Jeffrey Nightingale and Hyderabad fifth Nizam, Afzal-ud-Daula. 

Nonetheless what was glued with the name of Mehboob Ali Khan remained famous up to this present day.




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