High Court sends Telangana’s RTO rule back to 1994
The Telangana High Court has quashed the engineering qualification and altered vacancy cycle for a specific RTO promotion route, directing the department to use the pre-2021 rules.

Sarcasm as a Social Service. The SaaS Telangana didn’t ask for but needs.
Today's talking point
the Assembly gate clash
76 stories
The Telangana High Court has quashed the engineering qualification and altered vacancy cycle for a specific RTO promotion route, directing the department to use the pre-2021 rules.
Telangana’s electoral-roll revision is running behind its own calendar, with the CEO reported to have sought more time and the ECI yet to answer.
Telangana’s monsoon session began on September 7, with the BJP demanding a judicial inquiry into prohibited properties and the Congress offering a short discussion. The House was adjourned amid protests.
At an inspection in Suryapet, Telangana’s irrigation minister said projects should be judged by water delivered and acreage irrigated, while pledging to defend the state’s Krishna and Godavari entitlements.
The Supreme Court’s 2024–25 judiciary report records 2,29,934 pending cases in the High Court and 9,38,291 in district courts as of June 30, 2025.
The board’s three-member committee settled nothing on Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar water, while its member-secretary asked Telangana to restrain hydel releases and Andhra Pradesh to regulate Pothireddypadu withdrawals.
Telangana has promised to clear wrongly listed private land, but has not explained whether a collector’s NOC is enough to secure registration.
Konda Surekha was dropped from Telangana’s Council of Ministers with immediate effect on the Chief Minister’s advice. The constitutional sentence is clear; the political explanation is not.
Telangana’s Excise Department moved 562 officers in a major reshuffle. Allegations of ₹10 lakh advances and crores changing hands remain unverified.
A report says Telangana plans to sell 26% of TG Transco. Official records located so far do not show a cabinet decision, DRHP, PwC appointment or SEBI filing.
The Telangana High Court reportedly suspended a Single Judge’s direction to remove Commissioner A.V. Ranganath. The operative Division Bench order is not publicly available in the material reviewed.
The Telangana High Court has temporarily halted the direction to replace A.V. Ranganath, while ordering status quo over the contested Lothkunta land.
The Telangana High Court has temporarily suspended the direction to replace A.V. Ranganath. The Lothukunta land dispute remains alive.
The Telangana High Court’s interim protection covers four petitioners and specified land in Ranga Reddy district. The government must file its counters within two weeks; the project has not been stayed.
The civic body says it recovered almost the entire amount linked to 78 ERP invoices. The public record still does not say who approved the payments or which controls failed.
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.
The Congress government has announced large delivery figures in Telangana. The underlying reconciliation remains harder to find than the slogans.
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.
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.
The Telangana government’s challenge to the interim stay on Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak was listed before the High Court’s Chief Justice bench on September 1. The stay remains interim, not a scheme obituary.