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Toxic goes NZ on Aug 26
Forum Films puts Yash’s Toxic on New Zealand and Fiji calendars in Telugu for 26 August 2026. NZ listings back it; Fiji rests on Forum’s word for now.
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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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Midnight plinth, midday protest
Narsampet municipal staff tore down a plinth built for former MLA and BRS leader Peddi Sudarshan Reddy’s statue in the middle of the night. By morning, BRS was on the road asking why permissions appear to matter only when the Congress is in office.
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Paradise–Shamirpet corridor clears Form VII
Hyderabad district has moved the Paradise–Shamirpet elevated corridor one statutory step forward with Form VII declarations. It’s land acquisition, not bulldozers — yet.
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Congress ‘opens’ TIMS, blocks the tour
BRS leaders say Hyderabad police stopped them from visiting the just-inaugurated Sanathnagar TIMS, while the gate carried a notice pausing inpatient admissions for “sanitation”. The BJP and TDP are busy elsewhere; the Congress government had time to cut a ribbon and guard a door.
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Ravi Teja’s Irumudi drops; date set
Trailer out on August 12, film listed for August 21 in Telugu and Tamil. That’s two confirmed dates without a slogan attached — already above average for the national circus.
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Awarapan 2 “₹100 crore” — by estimate
Emraan Hashmi’s sequel is being called a ₹100-crore India-net film in five days — by Sacnilk. The tracker itself warns its data are approximate. Pick your favourite number; they don’t match each other.
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Gujarat’s Rs 50.43 lakh ‘tank’ goes missing
A single report says a Bhavnagar government hospital billed for a 2.55-lakh-litre underground water tank that the Gujarat Health Minister allegedly could not find. Orders were reportedly issued to suspend two engineers and act against a Surat contractor. The records that would prove any of this are not public in the material reviewed.
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Booked on app, missing at shop
Farmers say urea they reserved on the state app isn’t turning up at dealers. Telangana opened MeeSeva booking to patch the gap; the Congress government now owes an answer for the queues, the server stumbles and the basic question from those without smartphones.
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Pallaburusu lands in US, subtitles on
Cinemark lists Telangana-backdrop Telugu film with English subtitles from Aug 18 in at least one US market. The diaspora can watch; the paperwork and politics didn’t lift a finger.
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TIMS row needs facts, not whispers
A claim did the rounds that police “foiled” a BRS visit to TIMS Sanathnagar and put leaders under house arrest. The evidence to back that up hasn’t shown up yet.
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CAG July file exists. Numbers? Wait.
The July 2026 Telangana “Accounts at a Glance” is listed on the CAG site. The comparison-year figures are solid. The shiny 2026 numbers doing the rounds aren’t verified from the PDF yet — because the PDF wouldn’t load.
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Raghi Kunta ‘third call’. Again
A tender aggregator lists a third attempt to hire repairs for the Raghi Kunta tank in Dharmareddypally, Gajwel — bids were due to open yesterday. The official eProcurement record isn’t visible yet, and nobody is saying what happened.
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Cantonment fixes promised, specifics missing
Secunderabad Cantonment’s “misc. works” tender hit its bid‑opening date. Roads and footpaths may be in line; the who, where and when are not on the record yet.
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Karimnagar market panel, Congress quarrel
A market committee in Karimnagar got new office-bearers. What it also got, per one report, is a public quarrel inside the Congress the party has not bothered to explain.
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BRS loads 119 seats. Tickets? Nice try
KCR has named constituency in-charges across all 119 Assembly segments to push a statewide digital membership drive. The work is real, the ticket gossip is just that — gossip.
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BJP discovers ‘non-serious’—ignores records
The BJP’s Telangana chief called the Congress government “non-serious” on Godavari projects. The files show inspections happened, substations were charged, and Sita Rama works and land acquisition are still moving — not abandoned. The claim is loud; the paperwork is louder.
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Schwab signs for 3.45 lakh sq ft. Hiring.
Charles Schwab’s India arm is ramping in Hyderabad with a five-floor lease in Gachibowli and active job postings. The dates-and-headcount chest‑thumping others are doing is not in the record yet.
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22-A land mess: review, don’t stonewall
Court flags misuse, portal exists, complaints pile up. Congress government promises case-by-case review; BRS turns up with lawyers and allegations. The test now is delivery, not another “we’ll look into it.”
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BRS flags ‘44 votes’ at one address
Dasoju Sravan says a Banjara Hills commercial building saw suspected voter entries rise from 19 to 44 during the Special Intensive Revision. He wants the Election Commission to audit, verify on the ground and fix it — before the Congress gets to pretend this is all routine.
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Hanamkonda ran. AFI blinked.
Indian Athletics Series–13 finished in Warangal on August 18; the results are up. The only thing still running is AFI’s venue copy.