A 19-year-old drunk driver slammed an SUV into a couple’s car on the Hyderabad-Warangal National Highway, recording a blood alcohol level eight times the legal limit. The horrific early morning crash in Peerzadiguda flipped the victim’s vehicle multiple times and triggered intense public outrage over rampant reckless driving and total disregard for road safety laws across the country.

Two government officials working on the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana 2.0 project in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on October 22, 2026. Satish Reddy, Project Officer, and Raju, Technical Officer, allegedly demanded commissions ranging from 10% to 25% from a contractor for clearing pending bills and allotting additional works under the scheme, triggering immediate outrage.

The Telangana Council of Higher Education has officially released the final-phase seat allotment results for postgraduate admissions, bringing great news to thousands of eager students and parents across the region. With thousands of seats filled across various state university programmes, candidates can now review their admission status and prepare to report to their designated institutions ahead of the upcoming deadline.

Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar announced that the upcoming Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahabubnagar Graduates MLC election is a crucial political test for Congress. A victory will cement the party’s strength in Hyderabad and set the stage for future regional dominance. Cadres have been mobilized to push voter enrollments and highlight massive government development expenditures.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi general secretary R.S. Praveen Kumar has slammed the state government for abruptly closing the investigation into the sinking piers of the Medigadda Barrage under the Kaleshwaram Project. Highlighting glaring procedural lapses, he questioned how a major infrastructure case could be written off as undetected without probing explosive detonations or gathering key forensic evidence.

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has urged citizens to back Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in upcoming general elections, framing his premiership as vital for backward class empowerment. Speaking in Hyderabad, Reddy announced a Cabinet sub-committee to evaluate the Mudiraj community’s demand for BC-A categorization, underscoring state welfare pushes and political representation for marginalized groups.

Telangana witnessed an astounding festive economic spike as liquor depot sales breached the ₹2,000-crore threshold in merely 19 days of October. Driven by intense retailer stocking ahead of Dasara on October 20, depot dispatches hit ₹2,054.51 crore, marking a 37.02% jump over 2025. Unprecedented demand also saw beer dispatches soar by nearly 41% to 30.37 lakh cases, capped by an astonishing single-day dispatch of ₹303.40 crore on October 19.

Archaeological discoveries at Mrugavani National Park in Chilkur, Telangana, have unveiled four mysterious prehistoric grooves and ochre rock art depicting hunting scenes and geometric patterns. Historian Satyanarayana Dyavanapalli suggests the deep formations may trace back to Neolithic communities from the fifth millennium BCE, prompting calls for state archaeologists to conduct extensive excavations for tools and pottery.

The proposed Godavari-Krishna-Pennar-Cauvery river-linking initiative has ignited an intense political conflict after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu sought modifications routing water through Polavaram. Telangana’s main opposition, BRS, denounced the maneuver as an outright conspiracy, demanding immediate resistance from the state government.

Marking a triumphant full circle in a career spanning more than 42 years, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh completed his final flying sortie in an Indian Air Force aircraft on October 20, 2026. Taking off from the Air Force Academy in Dundigal aboard an HJT-16 Kiran Mk-1 trainer, he shared the 55-minute flight with his very first instructor, Wing Commander V.S. Kochar (Retd).