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GHMC’s appeals timed out, twice
Telangana High Court throws out GHMC’s writ appeals after 820 and 794 days of drift; says election duty isn’t an excuse and GHMC’s own LRS and permissions leave “little scope” for a fraud case.
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Hyderabad’s ghee check, 36 tonnes paused
H-FAST and Food Safety hit 130 units in one day. Lab results now decide how much of that “ghee” was actually ghee — a sentence that shouldn’t need saying in 2026.
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Polytechnics under YISU? Students detained
BRSV protests Congress plan to fold polytechnic colleges into the skills ‘ecosystem’; police pick them up, paperwork still missing.
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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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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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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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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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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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Chiru’s Mega158 eyes Sankranthi — reportedly
Trade says Chiranjeevi–Bobby’s #MEGA158 is lining up for Sankranthi 2027 with 40 shoot days done. The makers haven’t said so. Yet.
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Voter notices are coming. Check now
ECI’s SIR is live; Hyderabad’s exact counts are claimed in a report, not yet in an official list. The portal to answer a notice is up either way.
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SIR flags lakhs; draft, not deletions
Hyderabad’s “anomalies” stack up in the draft voter roll under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision. That’s a verification queue, not a purge — and the timeline to fix errors is on the ECI’s own calendar, not a party’s slogan.
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Urdu Academy lease pulled, says report
A report says the state has withdrawn the 30‑year lease of Urdu Academy land to a private firm through GO 23. The order itself isn’t on the public record yet.
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Annapurna, EPIC set ‘Pallaburusu’ date
Hyderabad’s Annapurna Studios and EPIC Studios announced Uday Chauhan’s Pallaburusu with an August 14 theatrical date and a toothbrush-for-scales poster. Whether it actually opened on that day is not yet on the public record.
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E-auto push: ₹200cr, 18,766 autos, big questions
Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar says a scheme to convert or replace petrol/diesel autos in Hyderabad’s CURE region with EVs has Cabinet’s nod — up to ₹1.5 lakh per auto, ₹200 crore total. The math and the paperwork will need to show up next.
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Raidurg crores, FTL still a shrug
TGIIC’s Raidurg auctions are raking in four-digit crores. The Congress government in Telangana is sprinting on monetisation while the Durgam Cheruvu FTL question it inherited remains to be notified — because the court asked the Lake Protection Committee to do it, and we’re still waiting.
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Paradise–Shamirpet land move starts. Clarity, when?
Acquisition is on record for the elevated corridor; owners want cash and a narrower road. The Congress-run state promised “transparent compensation” — the formula is still missing in action.
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Blackbaud doubles down in HITEC
Two Hyderabad leases on record, AI and product teams growing. The rest of the big claims need a source — preferably not a speech retold twice.
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Hyderabad’s “fire tax”? Show us the Gazette
A viral post says Telangana just slapped a fire tax on Hyderabad. The law allows it — but there’s no notification, no rate, no date, and no paper trail in the state’s own records.
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73 lakh ‘to be deleted’? Name them
CPI(M)’s John Wesley alleged a plan to cancel 73 lakh Telangana votes during the ongoing roll revision. The figure is unbacked by documents; the BJP-led Centre and Congress-run state are owed answers, not silence.