Telangana CM Aide Guest House Row: Entrepreneur Alleges Misconduct, BJP & BRS Seek Probe

The Karnataka Food Safety and Drugs Administration has cancelled 16 drug licences and suspended eight others following a major crackdown on a spurious medicine racket operating from a farmhouse in Bidadi. Authorities seized spurious drugs and packaging machinery worth 5.05 crore rupees, revealing that low-cost medicines were being repackaged as expensive imported cancer and ICU drugs. The seized inventory includes thousands of fake vials, expired medicines, forged labels, and filling equipment. Officials have traced involved wholesalers and retailers, blocked the seized batches on the portal, and sent samples for laboratory testing.

A neurosurgeon died in a fatal road accident after his Volvo car crashed into a median and caught fire on the Suryapet-Khammam Highway in Telangana. The deceased doctor was trapped inside the vehicle after the collision and died in the blaze. CCTV visuals showed the car moving towards the left and ramming into the divider near Pillalamarri before being engulfed in flames. Passersby alerted the police, and firefighters later brought the blaze under control. A police investigation is underway to ascertain the exact circumstances and cause of the crash.

India's shooting contingent secured its third silver medal at the Asian Games 2026 through the men's 10-metre air rifle team event. The Indian trio comprising Rudranksh Patil, Himanshu Dhillon, and Parth Mane clinched the silver medal for the country. All three of India's medals at the games so far have come from the shooting ranges, highlighting the nation's continental dominance in rifle events. This achievement follows two previous silver medals won by the women's shooting squad on the opening day of the competition, which included a medal in the women's 10-metre air rifle team event and an individual silver won by Elavenil Valarivan in the women's 10-metre air rifle individual final.

A political controversy has erupted in Telangana after entrepreneur K. Shobha Reddy alleged that an individual claiming to be a close associate of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy asked her to visit a guest house to discuss business opportunities in the outdoor advertising sector. Reddy stated that the conversation was uncomfortable and questioned the transparency of official processes, clarifying that she seeks equal opportunity and dignity rather than special favours. The opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi has seized upon the claims to target Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and the state government, demanding an investigation into the intermediary's identity and control of the premises.