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Bills for houses HYDRAA broke
Sunnam Cheruvu residents say power and tax demands kept coming after 2024 demolitions. The High Court, meanwhile, keeps asking HYDRAA to first fix the lake boundary, then act.
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Congress rehired, ED still alleging
Karnataka’s Congress brought B. Nagendra back to the cabinet on 3 August. The ED’s Valmiki Corporation case against him didn’t go anywhere — except forward.
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Irumudi ‘Rs 100 crore’? Show us the sheet
Ravi Teja’s Irumudi opened on Aug 21. Trade trackers put its opening weekend near Rs 72 crore worldwide; days later the film team said it crossed Rs 100 crore. Both are claims, not audited totals.
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Mahakali drops, war cry lands
Akshaye Khanna shows up as Shukracharya; the makers circle January 8, 2027 for theatres. Nearly three minutes of Devas–Asuras and one clear fact: the villain speaks first.
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TDP’s ‘mega’ DSC took 10 months
Andhra’s TDP-led government scrapped a ready 6,100-teacher drive, promised bigger, then took nearly ten months to even notify it. Telangana teachers know this trick: cancel now, claim scale later.
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Congress throws blame, skips proof
A Congress MP says BJP and BRS are blocking Telangana’s development, even diverting semicon projects to Gujarat. The paper trail he needs to prove it is missing. We checked.
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HC flags politics, spares PwD brides
Interim stay on Kalyana Lakshmi/Shaadi Mubarak largely holds; differently‑abled brides carved out. Court asks why MLAs need to hand cheques. Congress government’s homework is still pending.
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Strike paused, promises started
Auto unions stepped back from an indefinite strike after talks with Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar. What’s delivered so far: one avoided shutdown. What’s on paper: assurances, meetings and studies the BJP-led Centre won’t lose sleep over.
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BJP’s ‘48-hour’ fast wraps in 24
Telangana BJP chief N. Ramchander Rao ended his hunger strike in Hyderabad on August 25, vowing to “lay siege” to the Secretariat if fee-reimbursement dues aren’t cleared. The Congress government has yet to publish its own arrears figure; the BJP’s number moved from ₹12,000 crore to ₹15,000 crore in two days.
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Kondagattu got a ribbon, not a site
Rs 35.19 crore was sanctioned and a foundation stone was laid in January. Eight months on, the only thing moving is the Congress–Jana Sena slanging match — and there’s still no public paper showing the work has even started, let alone been stopped.
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Tungabhadra ‘no‑indent’ charge lands. Show us the file
BRS leaders say Telangana hasn’t pressed its claim on Rajolibanda water; demand Kannepalli pumps be run. The law puts Telangana on the Tungabhadra Board. The paperwork proving who asked for what is the missing exhibit.
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Harish Rao gives GO 97 a date
BRS’s T Harish Rao tells the Congress-run Telangana government to withdraw GO 97 by September 7 over the polytechnic–YISU plan. The government has talked up moving ITIs and polytechnics under a new skills university since 2024; it still hasn’t shown the order students are protesting.
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Musi’s 21 km moves; compensation doesn’t
Boundary stones are going in from Osmansagar–Himayatsagar to Bapu Ghat. Owners are filing objections. The Congress government in Telangana talks fair pay; the paperwork still ducks the numbers.
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Soumya seals it; East Bengal through
AFC confirms the IWL champions top Group A with maximum points; AIFF says it’s back-to-back Group Stage for the first time by an Indian club.
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Bethlehem Kudumba Unit speaks Telugu next week
Girish AD’s Malayalam hit lines up a September 4 theatrical bow in dubbed Tamil and Telugu, with Future Runup Films handling Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, according to the makers’ rollout reported by Cinema Express.
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Jubilee Hills SHO saga: one order short
Reports say Inspector M. Muttu Yadav is suspended over lapses in the N. Sumanth case. The order that proves it is still missing from the record.
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US leg denied. Answers denied longer.
BRS’s RS Praveen Kumar pressed A. Revanth Reddy to show the paperwork on his cut‑short foreign tour. The BJP‑led Centre blocked the US leg; the Congress CM hasn’t produced the full itinerary either. Telangana deserves the files, not another podium.
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CM admits: BRS owns the timeline
Two separate reports quote Telangana CM A. Revanth Reddy telling his own ranks that BRS “is using social media well” and warning Congress to counter it — a tidy confession that the opposition is outworking the ruling party online.
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Hyderabad screens pick a side — allegedly
Ravi Teja’s Irumudi opened August 21 and is still pulling bookings. Yash’s Toxic lands August 26 with a big-ticket Telugu distribution deal. A report says Nizam theatres are being tilted — hard — to the newcomer. The numbers we can see, and the ones we can’t.
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Irumudi’s ‘₹75 cr’ weekend — by estimates
Ravi Teja’s new release is off to a strong start in the Telugu states. The numbers doing the rounds are trade estimates, not audited filings — which, in Indian box office land, counts as transparency.