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Four drops, one day, your weekend
July 31 put four new titles on Telugu OTT — one official, two trade-confirmed, one from a tracker. Here’s what’s actually live and what’s merely “set to”.
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Stories that have aged off the front pages. Still here, still readable — just no longer the news of the day.
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‘Collapsed’ Kaleshwaram, now doing the heavy lift
Reverse-pumping to SRSP is running through the very link the BJP–Congress chorus wrote off. The paperwork and the water both say hello.
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Muskaan XII: 6,307 kids, police say
Telangana Police say Operation Muskaan-XII rescued 6,307 children statewide. The month-long MHA-driven drive traces missing kids and pulls child labourers out of work; the full breakup and outcomes aren’t published yet.
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Godavari prep is real. Today’s level? Unclear.
Bhadradri Kothagudem’s flood manual is ready; the gauge reading that triggers it is not on record. Collector Ankit is in office. The rest needs numbers, not slogans.
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Court said merit. TDP heard applause
Andhra’s TDP says Mega DSC-2025 was court‑cleared. The High Court’s actual order? Fix your selections by merit — not by box‑ticked preferences.
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Youth back Congress, data on leave
Revanth Reddy told his party bosses that Telangana’s youth are with Congress, have “completely” left the BRS, and won’t go near the BJP. The evidence stayed in Delhi too.
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Two deadlines, one day. Telangana showed up
Final-phase TG EAPCET registration and Phase-II Inter admissions both landed on July 31. The schedules are clear; the portals less so. Telangana’s students did their part on the clock — a concept Delhi’s parties remember only at election time.
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ECI sets dates. Rumours set the rest
SIR-2026 is on; draft rolls were due July 31 and claims run till August 30, per the Election Commission’s own schedule. District-wise “1.5 lakh deletions” in Nirmal–Adilabad are a single-report projection with unnamed “officials” and no public document behind it.
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From fever to Glasgow gold
Jaismine Lamboria beat defending champion Michaela Walsh to win India’s women’s 57kg Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow — a month after saying she was hospitalised with high fever and had missed the Czech camp.
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First gag yourselves, KTR tells Congress
At a Hyderabad seminar, K. T. Rama Rao said the Congress government is racing to legislate ‘hate speech’ while its own leaders keep testing the microphone. The bill is real and in committee; the censorship claims are his — and the Nalla Balu court record backs the free-speech warning more than the government’s sales pitch.
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Collegium reasons go missing. Judges notice.
Justice Ujjal Bhuyan reportedly asked why recent collegium appointment notes say who, not why. The Court’s own PDFs back the first half of that sentence.
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Mythri’s 418 promised July 31. Did it open?
The Prashanth Neel-presented Telugu horror was announced for a July 31, 2026 theatrical release. The posts are on record; the screenings aren’t — yet.
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Three Telugu drops, two days
Aha, Netflix and ZEE5 line up Telugu titles for July 30–31. Early access fine print included.
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Phase II waits, others glide
Hyderabad’s Metro takeover is done. Phase II is still sitting with the BJP-led Centre, while Bengaluru, Chennai, Jaipur and others got Cabinet nods with dates and kilometre counts attached.
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Ten in the ring. Your move, Glasgow
Day 10 at Glasgow 2026 puts 10 Indian boxers into Commonwealth Games finals. First Indian action is at 2:30 pm IST, with the boxing finals block running from 3:30 pm IST. The numbers come from NDTV’s live blog; the Games run July 23–Aug 2 per Commonwealth Sport.
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Pathirage pips Neeraj; Delhi spin waits
NDTV reports Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage took Commonwealth Games javelin gold with 89.75m, ahead of India’s Neeraj Chopra (85.83m) and Yashvir Singh (85.41m). The official Glasgow 2026 results page isn’t serving the sheet yet; the sport did run on the programme.
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HC asks: check Malakpet CCTV
A report says the Telangana High Court told Hyderabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar to examine Malakpet PS CCTV for a 24-hour window after a goldsmith alleged custodial violence. The allegation is his; the order is yet to be seen on court pages.
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Six dates, zero box-office math
eTimes lists six Telugu titles on July 30–31. That proves schedules, not ticket buyers. Summer’s slump, per an exhibitor, is a separate story — and not audited.
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87 shops, two days, bring a DD
Hyderabad district put 87 vacant commercial shops in 2BHK colonies up for open auction on July 31 and August 1. The notice has the addresses, sizes and upset prices. What it doesn’t have, yet, is how any of it ended.
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Roll first, drama later
ECI’s revised SIR calendar puts Telangana’s draft rolls on August 10. Parties can posture all week; the actual claims window hasn’t opened yet.