Sarcasm as a Social Service. The SaaS Telangana didn’t ask for but needs.
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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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The High Court criticised the HYDRAA commissioner for repeatedly violating judicial orders in a property dispute, comparing his conduct to that of a habitual offender and demanding an unconditional apology.
The Union minister and Telangana BJP chief acknowledged the cancelled medical entrance was botched — while defending the government's handling and turning the fire on Revanth Reddy. His arrest count does not match the one on the record.
Speaking at a BRSV protest over the Delhi student crackdown, BRS working president KT Rama Rao accused the Chief Minister of deflecting from the NEET-UG paper leak row by attacking BRS. Revanth Reddy has not put his original allegation, or a response, on the record.
Kadiyam Srihari joins the Agriculture Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister in urging Telangana farmers to switch to less thirsty crops this kharif, as an El Niño-driven rainfall deficit hits reservoirs and groundwater. The MLA delivering the message won his seat on a BRS ticket before joining Congress.
The Ashada Bonalu festival opened at Golconda on July 16 with the state government reporting its arrangements complete and Rs 20 crore sanctioned. A newspaper owned by the BRS says contractors are unpaid since December and tenders were never floated in most zones — a claim no independent outlet has carried.
The pre-release record is real if you read the footnotes: it is BookMyShow, it is overwhelmingly Tamil, and the two outlets calling it a hat-trick cannot agree which three films are in it.
The Rajasthan fast bowler earned a first India cap against Zimbabwe on the back of a breakout IPL 2026 and a domestic season as the country's leading T20 wicket-taker. The story behind him is an elder brother who stepped away from the game.
Todd Greenberg told a BBC podcast the idea was 'open for consideration' — which is a long way from a fixture, and neither of the two boards who would have to agree has said a word.
Shreyas Iyer's first win as India's T20I captain arrives at the seventh attempt, powered by a 15-year-old's world-record 18-ball fifty.
Police in Rajanna-Sircilla have registered a case after a 25-year-old was found hanged at home, with a note — written on the electoral-roll enumeration form — holding the Prime Minister responsible. The note has been sent for forensic examination and no cause has been established.
Students at the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule girls' residential school in Mancherial fell ill after a Wednesday meal. The cause is not yet established.
A Telangana High Court judge, hearing a contempt case against HYDRAA, dictated an order to deploy ten Army personnel to a disputed Lothkunta property and detain any official who entered it — before deferring it the same afternoon on the Advocate General's assurance.
A single Telugu-language report says the Andhra Pradesh government told the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal it diverts Krishna water because the Penna basin isn't enough — and proposed locking Telangana at 24%. The claim is worth examining; the sourcing is worth flagging first.