Sarcasm as a Social Service. The SaaS Telangana didn’t ask for but needs.
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Two workers are dead. The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation has suspended its Circle 50 Town Planning Building Officer for “failing to stop” an unauthorised seven-storey build in Anjaiah Nagar. The files on what enforcement actually happened are the part that matter now.
Hyderabad’s drains get Rs 50 crore on paper this year. Allegations say bills outran brooms; the documents that would prove it are not yet public.
BRS will mark 1,000 days of the Congress-run Telangana government with a week-long, ground-up campaign from September 2 — taking the ‘guarantees’ ledger to every village and ward, and asking where the delivery is.
BRS’ deputy floor leader threatened to stall the next Assembly sitting and “lay siege” to the Secretariat if what he calls genuine private lands aren’t taken off the Section 22A prohibited list. The Congress government has yet to explain the list or the numbers behind it.
Telangana BJP chief N. Ramchander Rao will sit on a two‑day hunger strike from August 24 over fee‑reimbursement arrears. The protest is certain; the numbers he throws aren’t.
NCWA-XI ran out on June 30. Telangana’s miners are covered by it. Unions say the next wage board hasn’t even been formed. The BJP-led Centre is very busy not answering.
Two Hyderabad-area senior citizens allegedly moved ₹1.576 crore after callers posed as Mumbai cops, the Data Protection Board and RBI ‘verifiers’. Real law enforcement does not arrest you on video — and there’s no such thing as a digital arrest.
Telangana High Court’s interim stay covers disbursements under eight GOs for Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak. The bench kept the brake on and asked the state’s Finance wing to bring the actual numbers; a BC Welfare affidavit even mis-cited the Constitution and had to be fixed. The schemes aren’t scrapped — the money is paused till the next hearing.
A minister’s daughter questioned A Revanth Reddy and staked claim to Parkal; the Congress answered by hauling up the minister. The ticket fight is wide open. The discipline isn’t.
Statewide auto strike from midnight as unions press for a welfare board, ₹12,000 support and insurance. Hyderabad march today. Minister says a board is “being set up” and promises ₹1.5 lakh for retrofits — drivers say promises need dates, not posts.
TGEJAC set August 27 protests and a September 10 mahadharna over EHS, PRC, DA and pensions. BRS has now backed them. The BJP-led Centre is nowhere, and the Congress government running Telangana still hasn’t published the basics that would calm this down.
Two workers died when a seven-storey illegal build in Anjaiah Nagar, Gachibowli, fell on August 22. Civic records cited in reports say Town Planning had warned the site on June 17 — and still did not stop it.
A minister’s daughter taunts the Chief Minister, the party serves a notice to the mother, MLAs demand her exit, and the TPCC says it’ll meet again. Telangana gets the spectacle; decisions can wait.
Jagadish Reddy alleges Andhra Pradesh siphoned Krishna water through Pothireddypadu; cites ‘floodwater-only’ rule and asks what the BJP-led Centre’s KRMB was watching.
Two workers died when a seven-storey under-construction building collapsed in Anjaiah Nagar on August 22. Rescue teams recovered the bodies; nearby buildings were damaged. Officials say a town-planning officer has been suspended and a police case registered against people linked to the site. The exact casualty list and FIR details are still not on the record.