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State-level warning for heavy rain today and tomorrow; thunderstorms and strong surface winds also on the IMD board.
BRS wants the lease put on ice and probed. The Congress government has not bothered to explain why a private builder gets three decades on Academy land on a BOT — or who authorised it.
From polio at two to a 9.81m season-best in Glasgow, Sharmila Dhankar wins women’s F57 shot put and writes India into Commonwealth Games para-athletics history. The medal is recorded; the rest she tells in her own words.
At a Delhi presser, K.T. Rama Rao vowed to scrap HYDRAA on “day one” if BRS returns, calling it the Congress regime’s blunt instrument. The court record has already put HYDRAA on a short leash; the budget shows it’s very much a state body.
MRDCL’s Mir Alam Tank bridge is on the books with piling kit hired and a Rs 304.36 crore tag. An inspection this week asked HMWSSB to map sewage and keep filth out of the lake. The progress numbers? Claimed in a report, not yet on an official page.
HMWSSB has announced a planned 24-hour interruption on Krishna Phase-II Ring Main-2 to shift a 1,600-mm line for Uppal Junction flyover works. Stock up; this one is on the schedule, not the rumour mill.
Hyderabad district will auction vacant commercial shops in GHMC-built 2BHK colonies on July 31 and August 1. The notice calls it Phase-II and says “as is where is.” The fine print — how many shops, where, and at what reserve — is not on the page.
A special song in Srikanth Odela’s The Paradise is being talked up. The makers haven’t said a word.
Koimoi tagged Nagabandham a “FLOP” off numbers it says are estimates it hasn’t verified. Telangana cinema can live with verdicts — audited ones, preferably.
Anonymous sympathy for students, on-record defence of the BJP-led Centre. TDP wants credit both ways — without saying it out loud.
Telugu cinema’s global ambassador gets his name etched on the Institut Lumière’s Mur des Cinéastes in Lyon, during a retrospective that screened Eega and RRR with him in the room.
Team says shoulder injury on July 27; doctors advise complete rest. No word yet on where it happened or what it means for Dragon’s dates.
Makers say Aaya Sher from The Paradise has crossed 200 million YouTube views; director Srikanth Odela thanks fans and promises a teaser “soon”. No date attached to “soon”.
Sanjay Jaju has been Telangana’s Chief Secretary since June 30. A month on, he is still waiting for an official residence, per a report — while the Housing file gathers dust.
Team says shoulder injury on July 27; doctors advise complete rest. No word yet on Dragon’s schedule — and no need for panic, they add.
The Institut Lumière hosted a Rajamouli retrospective and an RRR screening. The filmmaker says they went one further: a plaque on the Mur des Cinéastes. The institute’s public pages confirm the visit; a museum note on the plaque itself isn’t visible yet.
Haarika & Hassine drops Trivikram’s ‘Aadarsha Kutumbam’ character video; makers circle October 2 for theatres.
Kajal Aggarwal–Shreyas Talpade’s The India Story opened soft across three languages. The estimates disagree on the exact lakhs; they agree it wasn’t near a crowd.
Team statement says shoulder injury, rest prescribed. No diagnosis, no production update, no panic, they insist.
Multiple reports say Sarvesh Anil Kushare took men’s high-jump silver at Glasgow 2026 on countback after 2.25m. The official Games sheet isn’t up yet; the jump is.