Analysis
Hyderabad’s illegal-building boom still lacks a citywide count
GHMC has procedures, courts have recorded deviations and ACB cases have been reported. The grander corruption claim remains mostly a claim.
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GHMC’s ₹6.92 crore billing glitch had 78 invoices
GHMC says it recovered ₹6.84 crore after duplicate and excess payments were identified. The remaining ₹8.36 lakh was still awaiting credit to its General Fund.
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Tolichowki SI’s Rs 10,000 shortcut ends in ACB trap
The Telangana ACB arrested R. Pandu Naik after alleging he accepted money over a family dispute and promised police favours.
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Court: HYDRAA is not above court orders
The Telangana High Court held that HYDRAA officials breached a restraint order in the Lothukunta land dispute and asked the Chief Secretary to relieve Commissioner A.V. Ranganath. Whether the state acted remains unclear.
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HC leaves former OSD without arrest shield
The Telangana High Court declined interim protection for N. Sumanth in a Jubilee Hills assault case. The allegations remain unproven; the paperwork is still playing hide-and-seek.
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Congress schedules six days of protest over KCR
Revanth Reddy wants KCR out as Leader of the Opposition before the Telangana Assembly session. The accounting claims remain his claims, not audited records.
Analysis
Revanth opened the bridge; KCR got the chants
The Moosarambagh bridge is real, Rs 52 crore and partly open. The slogan story is still doing its rounds on one report.
Analysis
Hyderabad scholar wins Harvard award; ‘only recipient’ awaits Harvard
Shreeya Sai Lakkapragada, a 2026 Wellesley graduate from Hyderabad, has been identified by Dexterity Global as a recipient of Harvard’s Louis and Ida Tatelman Award. Harvard confirms the award exists, but its public material does not name her or confirm the ‘only student’ claim.
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Four months ‘arrested’ on video, ₹64 lakh gone
A 71-year-old Hyderabad resident and his wife allegedly lost ₹64 lakh after fraudsters posing as police officials invoked the Pahalgam investigation and threatened them with fabricated criminal cases.
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AIMIM expelled Baig. The resignation is missing.
The party ordered Telangana MLC Mirza Rahmath Baig to quit, but the Council chair reportedly has no resignation letter. The video controversy remains unverified.
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Inorbit crash: 150 kmph claim still needs proof
Police have identified the driver and registered a case, but the exact speed and several key details remain pending.
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AIMIM expels Baig; Council seat stays put
The party demanded his resignation. Baig says he will not quit, leaving the Legislative Council with a political standoff and several unanswered questions.
Analysis
Azamabad land: ₹500 crore claim, ₹87 crore price
BRS leader T. Harish Rao has asked Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to stop an alleged transfer involving Telangana Oilfed land. The transaction itself is not independently established in the records reviewed.
Analysis
NALSAR row gets constitutional footnotes
Two Supreme Court judges made remarks on dissent, professional independence and institutional accountability at NLU Delhi events amid the fallout from the NALSAR–Bar Council dispute. The speeches did not publicly name the Hyderabad university.
Analysis
GHMC approved ₹11,460 crore, then split itself
The budget was cleared on January 31. The three-corporation reorganisation arrived 11 days later, carrying questions the paperwork has not answered.
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Nagarjuna skips Hyderabad; King100 gets the birthday spotlight
Annapurna Studios asked fans not to visit Nagarjuna’s residence on August 29. The birthday plan instead arrived as a title glimpse, because even kings can outsource the queue.
Analysis
Musi land acquisition reaches the instruction stage
The Telangana government wants officials to speed up acquisition. The map, money and rehabilitation plan are still waiting for instructions.
Analysis
Section 22-A mess gets two protest dates
The Telangana BJP wants a white paper on private properties listed as prohibited, while the Congress government admits errors and promises corrections. The alleged mega-scam remains, for now, a political number without a ledger.
Analysis
BJP finds ‘lakhs of crores’ before finding the land
The Section 22-A dispute is real. The BJP’s spectacular valuation is still waiting for a land list, an acreage figure and some arithmetic.
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7,340 flats, one lottery, several start dates
The Telangana Housing Board’s CURE-area draw is under way, but the public record is less tidy than the housing plan.