Analysis
Trade maths is not a mandate
Awarapan 2 “hits” ₹100 crore on paper, Batwara 1947 “loses big” — on the same paper. The figures travel fast; the caveats don’t. Telangana’s viewers deserve the number and its author in the same sentence.
Archive
Stories that have aged off the front pages. Still here, still readable — just no longer the news of the day.
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Mahakali tees up Aug 24 tease
Prasanth Varma lines up the next PVCU reveal; cast trickles out on the record, hype races ahead. As usual, the Centre didn’t build this — Tollywood did.
Analysis
₹8.11 lakh crore, show the math
The BJP-led Centre audits. The Congress government in Telangana advertises. One of those has a table; the other has a slogan.
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Hyderabad’s ghee check, 36 tonnes paused
H-FAST and Food Safety hit 130 units in one day. Lab results now decide how much of that “ghee” was actually ghee — a sentence that shouldn’t need saying in 2026.
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HC to govt: wages, not excuses
Telangana High Court on 4 August told the state to put full facts on record on delayed minimum-wage revision for 73 employments, and listed it for 20 August. What happened on 20 August isn’t on the record yet — and until it is, the noise stays noise.
Analysis
Parkal ticket, Delhi scissors
Congress’s Telangana unit reportedly hauls up its own minister over her daughter’s Parkal challenge — while the Chief Minister it serves hasn’t answered the charge she laid at his door.
Analysis
22A errors, 30% asks — answer this
Harish Rao alleges 30% ‘commission’ to clear 22A bans; the Congress government in Telangana admits private owners were hit by errors, promises fixes. The numbers and the paper trail are the test — not another assurance.
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AYUSH strike hits day 17. File still missing
Warangal’s AYUSH house surgeons and PGs want the stipend parity a Telangana High Court already said exists on paper. The Congress government has yet to show the paper.
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CMR ‘defaults’ flagged; paperwork missing
A report claims 3.72 lakh MT paddy diverted by 89 mills. The math inside the same report doesn’t add up, and no public file backs the totals yet.
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GO 97 meets students. Clarification blinks.
Polytechnic students hit the streets over GO 97; the Congress-run Telangana government says lateral entry, fees and scholarships remain unchanged — but has yet to publish the order that would settle it.
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Dandupalli waits. Paperwork doesn’t
A field report says “around 45 houses” in Dandupalli rely on stream water, kerosene lamps and a cot for an ambulance. Official records first disagree on the district. Then go silent.
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Village fans at war, motion poster out
Panasapalli Fans Association is pitched as a village story about rival cinema fan clubs. Two reports say the makers dropped a motion poster on August 18. That’s the confirmed part.
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Hushar Pittalu lands a Charlotte screen
A small Telugu film gets listed for a five‑day run at AMC Concord Mills 24. No hype, just a booking the diaspora can actually point to.
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Dulquer’s I’m Game shifts to Sep 3
The makers say the delay is to go wider — Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada — moving out of the Onam rush to a September 3 worldwide date.
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Mahakali first look on Aug 24
Prasanth Varma’s PVCU returns with a first glimpse teased for August 24. Hyderabad is where this universe keeps getting built; Delhi can keep its sermonising, we’ll take the films.
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Chennai Love Story hits OTT in 28 days
Cinema Express says Kiran Abbavaram’s Telugu romance lands on SonyLIV on August 21, in five languages. The makers had opened it in theatres on July 24. Official SonyLIV confirmation wasn’t found in the record reviewed.
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Polytechnics under YISU? Students detained
BRSV protests Congress plan to fold polytechnic colleges into the skills ‘ecosystem’; police pick them up, paperwork still missing.
Analysis
ED review: bench first, answers later
The Supreme Court will list review pleas against its 2022 PMLA verdict. For now, it’s about which bench hears them — not the merits. Telangana has watched the BJP-led Centre use the ED freely; a real review would finally test that playbook.
Analysis
Congress scolds, daughter rebels
TPCC says it has sought minister Konda Surekha’s explanation after her daughter Konda Sushmita’s public swipe at Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy in Parkal. The allegations she lobbed remain unverified; the Congress-led government is yet to address a single particular.
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Telangana skater aims at Bormio
A Hyderabad teen is reported to have booked a lane for the ISU Short Track Junior World Cup. The schedule is official; the “first Indian girl” claim isn’t — yet.