it was a night of celebrations good food and great music as the fourth edition of times business awards was held amidst much fanfare at the novotel hyderabad convention centre recently upping the glam quotient at the awards night were bollywood diva swara bhasker and mana baahubali star rana daggubati telangana state finance minister etela rajender and maud principal secretary to telangana arvind kumar also graced the event as chief guests pioneers from the citys real estate and retail sector were honoured in a glittering ceremony everyone who works hard deserves to be recognised for their work especially if they are an outsider like me times has taken a great initiative to recognise everybody who is doing good work especially here in telangana which is a young and emerging state said swara bhaskar agreeing rana daggubati attributed the growth of hyderabad into a major metropolitan city to the vision of the realty sector 25 years ago there were just rocks in this city because of people like you and your businesses that this city is what it is today im happy to see times awards recognise your efforts and my hearty congratulations to all the winners rana said the awards ceremony which was superbly hosted by tv host and rj pallavi walia raj was followed by a rocking performance from the deccan project who enthralled the audience while standup comedian avinash agarwal left the guests in splits with his spontaneous quips avi dance troop also rocked the dance floor with a memorable performance ending the night on a high