Special Correspondent The Telangana High Court’s latest order in the Classic Cricket Club case may have brought procedural closure to the litigation, but it has hardly brought closure to the controversy surrounding the 57 Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) clubs whose voting rights and participation in General Body meetings remain under a cloud. In what many…
MS Shanker Orangenews9 greets a Prime Minister who transformed the aspirations of the ordinary Bharatiya on his 76th birthday today. Can any political leader change the way an ordinary citizen looks at his or her own possibilities? Narendra Modi’s remarkable journey from Vadnagar to the Prime Minister’s Office offers perhaps the most compelling example in…
Our Special Correspondent The controversy over the non-inclusion of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) in the draft electoral roll for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) AGM on September 18 has finally acquired some clarity—and the explanation is far more serious than the rumour mills would have us believe. The BCCI Electoral…
Science Correspondent The United States may not be preparing to plant weapons on the Moon, but there is little doubt that Washington under President Donald Trump is preparing for something much bigger: establishing American strategic superiority across the Earth-Moon system. That distinction matters. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, ratified by the United States, prohibits placing…
Special Correspondent A potentially dangerous structure has been standing for years in the heart of Hyderabad’s First Phase of Journalists’ Colony at Banjara Hills, despite a written complaint drawing the authorities’ attention to its alleged dilapidated condition as far back as 2021. The disturbing question now is not merely why the structure continues to stand,…
Special Correspondent The reported exclusion of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) from the electoral roll for the forthcoming BCCI Annual General Meeting on September 18 has added yet another layer to an institution already battling prolonged internal disputes, litigation and administrative uncertainty. Coming at a time when the HCA is struggling to present a united…
Special Correspondent The latest Telangana High Court order is significant — but perhaps not for the reasons being claimed by either side When the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) enters a courtroom, it is rarely just another legal proceeding. Given the association’s long history of disputes, competing claims, administrative controversies and interventions by courts and cricketing…
MS Shanker The removal of Konda Surekha from the Telangana Cabinet may, on the surface, appear to be a decisive assertion of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s authority over the State Congress. But beneath that show of command lies a more uncomfortable political question: has the Chief Minister actually consolidated the Congress, or merely pushed…
(…..Continued) Part I raised a straightforward but deeply uncomfortable question: how can HCA’s constitutional disqualification provisions remain effectively dormant for years when criminal cases involving serving and former office-bearers have continued through prolonged litigation? The answer may lie entirely in the normal pace of the judicial process. But there is another episode that makes it…
Special Correspondent Should a person named as an accused in a corruption case be allowed to vote in Hyderabad Cricket Association elections? Should he be permitted to contest those elections — and even win? And, having won, should he be allowed to occupy a position of authority in an institution whose own constitution contains a…
