Talking pointTelangana's cyclone reality check
Stories that have aged off the front pages. Still here, still readable — just no longer the news of the day.
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Hyderabad’s Women Safety Wing recorded the complainant’s statement inside the National Police Academy in a case against trainee IPS officer M. Uday Krishna Reddy. The accused later denied the charges; police say his statement will be taken, too.
Narayanpet’s government-school kids are 50-plus days into the year without new uniforms. The Congress government promised one set on day one, a second within a month. District officials now say: maybe by August 15.
Reported allegations say junior colleges used fake fire-safety certificates to get affiliation. The rule is clear; the paperwork isn’t. Students need clarity, not rumours.
Organisers say autos, cabs, lorries and app deliveries will stop statewide from Saturday. The ask is basic: minimum fares, notified rules, and the welfare board the draft bill promised on paper.
A Telugu daily reports a Telangana High Court bailable arrest warrant against senior IAS officer Sandeep Kumar Sultania in a contempt case. We have not seen the order. Here’s what’s on record, and what isn’t.
Telangana’s SIR has gaps in form returns, especially in Hyderabad’s urban belt. That supports one claim: miss the form, risk missing from the draft roll. It does not prove a six-lakh permanent purge. Bring the maths or stop selling fear.
Khairatabad MLA Danam Nagender won on a BRS ticket in 2023, then fought Secunderabad Lok Sabha on a Congress ticket. Disqualification petitions were dismissed by the Speaker in March; the fight is now in the Telangana High Court.
BRS’s T. Harish Rao wants the Congress government to either boycott an upcoming GRMB meeting or force a rewrite of its agenda, which he says targets Telangana’s Godavari clearances. The state’s on-record line has been to oppose AP’s Banakacharla link; Harish alleges a quiet surrender — a charge the Congress has not bothered to answer with documents.
The Paradise shifts from March to August; makers now say eight languages, worldwide. Announced, not audited.
Hyderabad’s app-based drivers say they’ll go indefinite from Saturday if fares, minimums and welfare rules aren’t fixed. The BJP-led Centre wrote Codes, the Congress loves photo-ops — neither set a meter that pays. Telangana passed a welfare Bill; workers want it implemented, not framed.
Telangana’s ACB says Rs 44 crore in electoral bonds linked to Greenko were bought for BRS months around the October 25, 2022 Formula E agreement — an allegation, not a verdict. The BJP-led Centre’s broken bond regime made this fog possible; the Congress would like the fog to count as proof. It doesn’t.
A report says Telangana will hand out 1.05 crore new ration cards on August 15 with the CM in Sangareddy. The government portal doesn’t show that memo, that date or that number. What is on record: this Congress government started a card drive in July 2025.
SIR is using the 2002 roll as the base. Telangana’s CEO says anomalies get notices and hearings — not instant deletions. The “over six lakh in Hyderabad” number is reported by one outlet and not backed by an official table.
Telangana HC is still assembling paperwork on BRS petitions against Congress-bound MLAs. The slow-walk began with the Speaker; the BJP cheered from the sidelines. Telangana waits.
State says it froze immigrant-visa issuances for 75 nationalities from 21 January 2026. A Telugu report claims a DC judge struck it down. The court order is not on the record yet.
A report says an ACB court okayed CM A. Revanth Reddy’s foreign trip with conditions in the cash-for-vote case. The order itself isn’t public. The dates, countries and surety terms are all from that single report, not a filed order.
Harish Rao says a GRMB agenda puts seven Telangana Godavari projects on the table and asks why the Congress CM is quiet. The BJP, for its part, is noisy on TV and missing when it counts.
Anukunta villagers marched to the Collectorate over airport land and a road they fear will vanish. The state has since sanctioned 2,009 acres and road diversions — but has yet to show the exact map to the people living on it.
Reports say Mouli Tanuj Prasanth leads a Mythri-backed crime comedy; a debutant directs. The posters are out — according to the reports.
BRS working president K T Rama Rao told cadre to prepare for a renewed people’s movement, tying farmer support, procurement and jobs to a wider pushback against the Congress government in Telangana. The Congress side has not bothered to answer the charge; its press releases talk only of disbursal totals.