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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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Publish the list. All of it.

BRS asks for a sitting-judge probe, a white paper and the full Section 22A list. The Congress government admits errors — then asks everyone to trust the fix they won’t publish.

Politics

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Red light for Telangana, green for Gujarat

MEA blocks Revanth Reddy’s US leg citing an ‘inappropriate’ programme. A tentative Zohran Mamdani meet drew BJP heat. Telangana’s pitch to investors can wait; Delhi’s gatekeeping did not.

Politics

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Congress bundles five files, waves one flag

At Gandhi Bhavan, Congress MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy said the BJP and BRS are “blocking Telangana’s development”. The paperwork says something duller: proposals pending at the BJP-led Centre, tenders moving on Musi, and big semiconductor approvals sited — very specifically — in Gujarat and Assam. That is not one conspiracy; it is five different dossiers and a press line tying them together.

Reality

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GO 97 gets a deadline

Harish Rao gives the Congress government till September 7 to scrap GO 97 or face a Secretariat protest with polytechnic students. The state says nothing is being privatised; students aren’t buying it.

Politics

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41% ‘prohibited’? Show the book

Revenue Minister Ponguleti says 1.017 crore acres sit on the 22-A prohibited list in Telangana — about 41% of total land. Errors are admitted, fixes promised. The BJP and Congress can trade lines; Telangana needs the ledger.

Government

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Banakacherla “done deal”? Show the paper

A claim doing the rounds says Telangana’s Congress government has okayed Andhra’s Polavaram–Banakacherla link and will sign an MoU in September. The public record shows objections, not approval. The BJP-led Centre hasn’t cleared it either.

Politics

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US leg blocked, UK okayed

Congress says BJP and BRS are stalling Telangana. The record shows one thing clearly: the BJP‑led Centre nixed the Chief Minister’s US leg while clearing the UK one — and won’t say more than “not appropriate to the office.” The rest of Congress’s list needs documents, not decibels.

RealityHyderabad

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Fish video, proof missing

A clip of fish being cooked near a Congress-linked welcome in the Ayodhya region turned into a BJP morality play. The evidence for “Ajay Rai ate fish” is still where it started: nowhere on record.

Reality

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Kaleshwaram: Centre points, state must drive

CWC and NDSA told the Telangana High Court that day‑to‑day operating calls on Kaleshwaram sit with the state’s dam‑safety wing and project authority. Translation: Delhi’s agencies will advise; Hyderabad must decide — and live with it.

Infrastructure

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Musi gets another meeting, not tenders

CM Revanth told officials to speed up land acquisition, draft a land‑pooling policy and “invite Phase‑2 tenders at the earliest.” On the public record today: instructions. The deliverables — policy on paper, acquisition notices, uploaded tenders — are still missing.

InfrastructureHyderabad

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MEA says “not appropriate”. For whom?

The BJP-led Centre blocked the US leg of Telangana CM Revanth Reddy’s outreach, muttered something about “appropriateness”, and left Telangana’s education-and-investment pitch on the tarmac. The itinerary to Harvard–MIT was apparently too much; Oxford in London was fine. Funny where “protocol” gets strict.

Politics

News

Irumudi storms weekend. Auditors on leave

Trade reports put Ravi Teja’s latest at ₹50.30 crore India net and ₹71.87 crore worldwide in three days. The records are big; the receipts are, as usual, off-stage.

Cinema

News

BK Unit lands in Telugu, Sept 4

Nivin Pauly’s Bethlehem Kudumba Unit reaches AP–Telangana screens in Telugu on September 4; makers say “worldwide” release. Tamil version arrives the same day.

The Outside World

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Congress ‘strict action’: lots of fog, no fire

TPCC’s disciplinary panel hands a sealed report on Konda Surekha and G. Chinna Reddy to its chief, promises “strict action”, and punts the decision to Delhi. Telangana is asked to wait while the high command thinks about it.

Politics

News

Two apps, zero urea

Rajanna Sircilla farmers queued for hours as app-based booking stalled. Telangana’s own app exists, the Centre’s app exists — neither helped on the day.

Agriculture