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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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CPM keeps protesting, officials promised proceedings, and the numbers don’t match. The BJP-led Centre has nothing to do with delivering Telangana’s housing, and the Congress running Nalgonda still needs to show its homework.
A calendar had Telugu cine Twitter braced for a seven-film pile‑up on August 14. The actual list looks thinner — and the data behind it, thinner still.
Vishwanath & Sons released on August 14 with a Telugu version listed. Bilingual bravado can wait for an actual confirmation.
Vishwanath & Sons was sold as a Tamil–Telugu outing. The director now says they shot only in Tamil and dubbed the Telugu — a familiar gap between marketing and what reached Telangana screens.
Maiden Test ton on debut tour, unbeaten 131 at Galle; India coach credits back-foot prep. Rahul retired hurt; Sri Lanka lean on a debutant’s effort without reward.
BRS says Andhra asked KRMB to cap Telangana at 30 tmcft and claims Telangana’s Congress government nodded along. The letters aren’t public. The reservoirs are.
June said Rs 441.23 crore was pending. Two days later the agriculture minister said every rupee was paid. August brought fresh claims of a miss. Paper trail from the Congress government in Telangana: still missing.
A Reddit user claims $46,483 in advance for Yash’s Telugu ‘Toxic’ US premieres; one Jacksonville theatre lists Aug 25 shows. The film’s worldwide date is Aug 26. Everything else needs an adult in the room — ideally the distributor.
A trade report claims Vishwanath & Sons opened bigger in the Telugu states than in Tamil Nadu. No audited numbers yet — just the claim, and a Day 2 catch‑up in TN.
The Supreme Court isn’t buying years of “consultations” on junk-food labels. It told the Union and FSSAI to consider clear front-of-pack warnings and come back with something real — not another meeting note.
Telangana’s own record says the internship isn’t a tuition year. Private colleges trying a fifth-year bill have a problem — with the law, not just with students.
Telugu screens got a mid-August pile-up: three titles dated for August 14 and one landing today, August 15. The numbers spin can wait; the dates are on the record.
On July 15, BRS MLA Vemula Prashanth Reddy set August 15 as the cutoff for four Bheemgal projects. The Congress government of Telangana has yet to publicly say what, if anything, it did by then.
Hyderabad tells the KRMB to apply its 71:29 formula to water now in Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar — which, by that math, leaves Andhra Pradesh nothing from the present pool.
A Telangana Congress post tried to sell “expressway collapse” in Uttar Pradesh. NHAI’s own update calls it a local surface slippage near Km 64, fixed the same day. Maths — and the record — have not joined the campaign.
Hyderabad’s NALSAR briefly had its 2026 batch frozen out of enrolment. A day later, the Bar Council of India backed off. The Supreme Court discussion that followed asked the obvious: who authorised this stunt.
The maker calls it a dream project; the listings call it August 14. Screen counts, languages and box-office miracles can arrive when the numbers do.
Delhi says Census 2027 will enumerate caste in Phase II. A “40‑question” form doing the rounds? Not in any Gazette we can find yet.
CM pitched DBT to students from 2026–27. The government’s own order says pre-2026–27 dues to colleges still have to be settled — and told the High Court it would start doing that by July 31 and August 15. The BJP-led Centre isn’t in this fight; Telangana is, and students shouldn’t be the collateral for someone else’s spin.
Annapurna Studios and EPIC Studios say Uday Chauhan’s Telugu film Pallaburusu hits cinemas today. It’s a small, locally rooted comedy about a 68‑year‑old and a toothbrush — which is already doing more for rural Telangana on screen than the BJP or Congress do between elections.