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BRS’ deputy floor leader threatened to stall the next Assembly sitting and “lay siege” to the Secretariat if what he calls genuine private lands aren’t taken off the Section 22A prohibited list. The Congress government has yet to explain the list or the numbers behind it.
Telangana BJP chief N. Ramchander Rao will sit on a two‑day hunger strike from August 24 over fee‑reimbursement arrears. The protest is certain; the numbers he throws aren’t.
Title glimpse out. Chiranjeevi is K. Satyam at an aqua unit, keys, a magnet and a lot of guns follow. The makers want Sankranthi 2027 — on paper for now.
NCWA-XI ran out on June 30. Telangana’s miners are covered by it. Unions say the next wage board hasn’t even been formed. The BJP-led Centre is very busy not answering.
Two Hyderabad-area senior citizens allegedly moved ₹1.576 crore after callers posed as Mumbai cops, the Data Protection Board and RBI ‘verifiers’. Real law enforcement does not arrest you on video — and there’s no such thing as a digital arrest.
The Padma Shri awardee who began with L. V. Prasad’s Shavukaru (1950) and worked across five industries died in Chennai on August 21, according to Nadigar Sangam president Nasser.
Telangana High Court’s interim stay covers disbursements under eight GOs for Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak. The bench kept the brake on and asked the state’s Finance wing to bring the actual numbers; a BC Welfare affidavit even mis-cited the Constitution and had to be fixed. The schemes aren’t scrapped — the money is paused till the next hearing.
A minister’s daughter questioned A Revanth Reddy and staked claim to Parkal; the Congress answered by hauling up the minister. The ticket fight is wide open. The discipline isn’t.
Statewide auto strike from midnight as unions press for a welfare board, ₹12,000 support and insurance. Hyderabad march today. Minister says a board is “being set up” and promises ₹1.5 lakh for retrofits — drivers say promises need dates, not posts.
TGEJAC set August 27 protests and a September 10 mahadharna over EHS, PRC, DA and pensions. BRS has now backed them. The BJP-led Centre is nowhere, and the Congress government running Telangana still hasn’t published the basics that would calm this down.
Two workers died when a seven-storey illegal build in Anjaiah Nagar, Gachibowli, fell on August 22. Civic records cited in reports say Town Planning had warned the site on June 17 — and still did not stop it.
A minister’s daughter taunts the Chief Minister, the party serves a notice to the mother, MLAs demand her exit, and the TPCC says it’ll meet again. Telangana gets the spectacle; decisions can wait.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand take India’s first women’s doubles World Championships medal since 2011. Not the first ever — the record still remembers Jwala–Ashwini.
Five straight days of Karnataka’s Assembly in limbo over Congress minister B. Nagendra’s reinduction — while drought, water and money Karnataka says it needs from Delhi wait their turn.
Trade says Ravi Teja’s Irumudi raced past $125,000 in North America pre-sales before its August 21 release — with earlier $50k and $25k snapshots doing the rounds a day apart. The ‘best-ever overseas pre-sales’ claim remains just that: a claim.
Yash’s ‘Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups’ is listed to hit theatres worldwide on August 26. Advance ticketing opened August 21, say the makers — but the breathless 12,000-screens talk is still a claim, not a count.
Title and glimpse land on his birthday; makers eye January 13, 2027. The promo introduces him as Supervisor Satyam — and someone with a past.
Jagadish Reddy alleges Andhra Pradesh siphoned Krishna water through Pothireddypadu; cites ‘floodwater-only’ rule and asks what the BJP-led Centre’s KRMB was watching.
Sri Venkateswara Creations says it has AP–Telangana rights to Yash’s Toxic for ₹120 crore. The screen-count war everyone’s whispering about? Still a whisper.
Polytechnic students push back on the Congress government’s SHAKTI/YISU plan; a Suryapet clip shows girls ring‑fencing a protester as police back off. KTR backs the agitation, the policy still doesn’t have answers on ECET and diplomas.