Analysis
OU’s Rs 1,000 crore exists—on paper
The Telangana government says it issued the sanction. How much reached Osmania University, and what was spent, remains undisclosed in the record reviewed.
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BCI tried disciplining NALSAR students. The Court disagreed
The Supreme Court reportedly held that bar councils cannot discipline law students before they are enrolled as advocates, after a row involving NALSAR students in Hyderabad.
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Fee dues, black badges: colleges plan September protest
Telangana’s private degree and PG colleges have announced a five-day protest over alleged pending fee-reimbursement dues. The government’s new ₹2,400-crore annual framework does not settle the old bill.
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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NEET-PG’s Jaipur power problem gets a retest
NBEMS says 2,445 candidates could not complete the exam after internal power-supply issues at two Sitapura centres; the re-exam is set for September 5.
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
BJP finds ₹15,000 crore, loses the ledger
Telangana BJP president N. Ramchander Rao began a 48-hour fast over alleged fee-reimbursement dues. The headline figure remains a political claim, not a published government calculation.
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UoH hunger strike paused, promise pending
AISA says the Vice-Chancellor will place menstrual leave at the Academic Council. The university’s own pages are silent so far.
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Group-III papers, now plates?
Photos doing the rounds claim Group-III question papers turned up as snack plates. The exam happened; the plates story rests on one report so far.
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Harish Rao gives GO 97 a date
BRS’s T Harish Rao tells the Congress-run Telangana government to withdraw GO 97 by September 7 over the polytechnic–YISU plan. The government has talked up moving ITIs and polytechnics under a new skills university since 2024; it still hasn’t shown the order students are protesting.
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GO 97 meets a barricade
Polytechnic students push back on the Congress government’s SHAKTI/YISU plan; a Suryapet clip shows girls ring‑fencing a protester as police back off. KTR backs the agitation, the policy still doesn’t have answers on ECET and diplomas.
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Polytechnic staff down tools on ‘extras’
Non-cooperation over YISU merger begins today; TP-JAC wants polytechnics kept under SBTET. Government says ECET stays; students aren’t buying oral guarantees.
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GO 97 meets the Clock Tower
A report says Nalgonda polytechnic students confronted Komatireddy Venkat Reddy over the SHAKTI merger, fearing their diplomas and ECET route could be diluted. The government says nothing changes. The order itself is still not public here.
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Polytechnic protests meet SHAKTI silence
Students across Telangana hit the streets over GO 97 and the SHAKTI–YISU rejig. The state says admissions aren’t hit; students want their diplomas and ECET path guaranteed on paper, not in vibes.
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GO 97 meets students. Clarification blinks.
Polytechnic students hit the streets over GO 97; the Congress-run Telangana government says lateral entry, fees and scholarships remain unchanged — but has yet to publish the order that would settle it.
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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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Nalgonda polytechnic students push back
Students and SFI rallied in Nalgonda against a plan the Telangana government floated in 2024 to bring polytechnics under Young India Skill University. Two years on, SBTET still runs 2026 admissions — the change, if any, isn’t on paper yet.
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MBBS is 4½ years. Stop billing 5.
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.
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Fee dues “gone”? GO says pay up
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.
Analysis
BCI freeze on NALSAR? Show us the letter
A report says the Bar Council of India told State Bar Councils to not enroll NALSAR’s 2026 grads “till further orders”. The letter isn’t public. Telangana’s lawyers-in-waiting are asked to take it on faith — from a Delhi regulator that hasn’t put the order on its own site.