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The Great HCA Election Circus

By Vinay Rao Every few years, Hyderabad cricket produces a spectacle that rivals anything seen on the field — the HCA elections. The current season promises to be one of the most entertaining yet. It began with a sudden enthusiasm to conduct elections. Normally, such an important exercise would involve careful thought and a serious…

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PM Modi to inaugurate, lay foundation stones of projects worth Rs 33,500 crore in Delhi today

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of development projects worth around Rs 33,500 crore, including two new Delhi Metro corridors, giving a major boost to the national capital’s infrastructure. The prime minister will also address a gathering on the occasion. Before the programme, Modi will visit…

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Nari Shakti: From Promise to Policy

On the eve of International Women’s Day, India finds itself at an important crossroads in the journey toward gender equality. For decades, women’s empowerment remained a powerful slogan in political speeches, campaign manifestos, and policy declarations. Yet, meaningful representation of women in India’s legislative bodies remained limited. Despite forming nearly half of the country’s population,…

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The summoning of Indra, Soma, Sacrifice, and the Vedic quest for Cosmic harmony

Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao In the dawn-lit silence of Vedic antiquity, when sacred fires rose like luminous pillars between earth and heaven, the sages invoked Indra in the solemn cadence of the Gayatri Mantra. Their grammar was not merely linguistic precision; it was reverence embodied. Each syllable was weighed against Sruti—the eternal revelation—where sound itself was…

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