The recent Delhi trial court verdict acquitting 23 accused — including former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, and BRS MLC K. Kavitha — in the controversial excise policy case is not just a legal development. It is a political earthquake. And it comes at a time when the country is preparing for…
Special Correspondent Serious concerns over the security of Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy have been raised by senior BJP leader Marri Shashidhar Reddy, who has formally written to the state Director-General of Police and marked a copy to the Union Home Ministry, flagging what he describes as alarming security lapses. At the centre of…
Special Correspondent The administrative turbulence within the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) has taken yet another complicated turn, raising serious questions about governance standards, procedural propriety, and institutional credibility. What began as high-profile arrests over alleged financial irregularities has now evolved into a wider debate over due process, political influence, and internal power struggles. Arrests Without…
Special Correspondent If parliamentary conventions carried constitutional immunity, Indian politics would be far less noisy—and far more convenient for those who mistake designation for distinction. Unfortunately for such assumptions, the Indian Constitution is refreshingly blunt on one crucial point: it does not recognise the office of the Leader of the Opposition at all. Not by…
Special Correspondent Parliament has once again been paralysed—not over economic distress or a national security failure, but over selective leaks and political interpretations attributed to an unpublished memoir of former Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane. The Congress-led Opposition’s decision to stall the Budget Session over unverified claims marks yet another low in its increasingly…
MS Shanker Parliament is often described as the temple of democracy. Temples, by definition, are places where fear has no role—only order, dignity, and constitutional sanctity do. That is precisely why an extraordinary statement by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla during the Budget Session deserves serious national debate, not silence. The Speaker publicly acknowledged that…
At a time when the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) finds itself under an unforgiving public spotlight, its leadership insists a quiet but consequential course correction is underway. The past year has been marked by extraordinary turbulence—the arrest of the President, Secretary, and Treasurer, and the emergence of a truncated Apex Council forced to function under…
For Washington’s strategic planners, the temptation to view Iran through the same prism as Venezuela—or even Iraq—would be a dangerous miscalculation. Iran is not a collapsing petro-state with fractured institutions and limited military reach. It is a hardened, battle-tested regional power with layered air defences, a vast missile arsenal, and powerful allies who have a…
Orangenews9’s engagement with the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) has been guided by a singular and consistent principle: to present verified facts in their proper context and to uphold the role of journalism as a public trust, not a personal crusade. Our reporting is neither directed at individuals nor motivated by personal grievance. It is rooted…
Special Correspondent The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) yet again finds itself at the centre of a storm—one that, according to parents, players, and long-time observers of the game in Telangana, has moved well beyond isolated lapses and into what they describe as a pattern of systemic decay. What was meant to be a moment of…
