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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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ASHA pay glitch? Workers say July unpaid

Union says July honorariums were ‘disbursed’ on August 3 but many ASHA workers report no credit. Demands for Rs 18,000 fixed salary and benefits are back on the table. The Congress-run state hasn’t explained the delay.

Healthcare

Analysis

Summer blockbuster season took a raincheck

April–May is when Telugu cinemas usually print money. This year, the calendar blinked. The releases came late, moved again, or headed for winter. The crowd is still waiting outside June.

Reality

Analysis

Mega DSC ‘fool proof’? The HC proof

Andhra’s TDP government swears its teacher recruitment was untouchable. The High Court had to remind it that merit beats convenience. Telangana is watching the neighbour’s ‘model’.

Reality

News

T‑Fiber to offices: plug in, don’t grandstand

Telangana’s fibre grid was built to wire up homes and government institutions. The official brief says 97,115 public offices are on the list — but the fine print on deadlines, “sole provider” status and savings needs the government order the site itself cites and hasn’t posted.

Technology

News

CMR mess is real. The audit? Show it.

Telangana has chased defaulting rice millers for years, recovered some money, and is still in court over tonnes of missing paddy. A sweeping 10–12-year audit is being talked up — but no official order is on the record yet.

Agriculture

News

Warangal’s 2,018 beds: finish line finally in sight

The Warangal Super Speciality Hospital is listed at 2,018 beds and “95% completed” in an official Telangana health presentation. The Health Minister says it will be opened to the public by end-2026. The “second-largest cancer hospital” line doing the rounds isn’t supported by the record yet.

HealthcareWarangal

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KNRUHS posts new dates. Read the PDF

Twelve theory papers postponed on July 24 have fresh dates between July 29 and August 7, per KNRUHS’s exam wing. Colleges are told to inform students and get the logistics done.

Government

Analysis

27 lakh ‘uncollectible’. Draft when?

Telangana’s voter roll clean-up has flagged roughly 27.7 lakh electors as dead, shifted, absent or duplicated, the CEO has said on record. The Election Commission’s own timetable online doesn’t match the dates local officials and reports are quoting. Pick one, gentlemen.

Politics

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Peddi’s “case study” flies economy

Hombale picked Peddi to launch its overseas distribution push. Eleven days in, the producer says overseas and Hindi markets didn’t meet expectations. The spin machines in Delhi can relax — this one needs receipts, not slogans.

The Outside World

Analysis

Dharani probes on loop, reports on mute

Committees, audits, ‘detailed studies’ — the Congress government in Telangana keeps announcing new scrutiny of Dharani and Bhu Bharathi. What it hasn’t done is publish the reports it keeps citing. When the facts are strong, you usually show them.

Reality

News

Auto drivers ask Congress to keep Rs 12k word

Karimnagar auto workers rallied to the Collectorate demanding the Congress government deliver what it put in writing for drivers: Rs 12,000 a year and a welfare board. The promise exists on paper; the government hasn’t bothered to explain the delay on the ground.

EmploymentKarimnagar

News

Court list is public; verdict isn’t

Two Sircilla election petitions against K.T. Rama Rao exist on the High Court record. A report says they were dismissed on August 4 — but the judgment isn’t on the court site yet.

Politics

News

Uyir streams Aug 4. Five languages.

Roshan Mathew’s Malayalam police procedural heads to JioHotstar on August 4, in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, per multiple reports. Telangana viewers get the Telugu track without waiting for a dubbed-afterthought window — which is rarer than it should be.

Rest of the Republic

Analysis

92 lakh forms pending. Then, silence

EC’s extended August 3 SIR deadline is over. The last published status said 92,25,211 electors hadn’t submitted forms. A post-deadline statewide count wasn’t publicly found as of August 4. The BJP and Congress are busy accusing each other; voters just want their names to show up on August 10, as promised.

Politics