MS Shanker Last Sunday’s Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) AGM wasn’t a meeting—it was a reunion of rogues, a mafia-style roll call of those who have turned cricket administration into a looting syndicate. The date may have read 29 June 2025, but the stink in the hall smelled like it had been festering for decades. If…
Sangareddy (Telangana): The toll in the explosion at the Sigachi Industries’ pharma plant in Pashamylaram has risen to 35, a senior police official said on Tuesday. “Several bodies have been found under the debris while removing it. As many as 31 bodies have been extricated from the debris, while three died in the hospital while…
Birmingham: A call on premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah playing the second Test will be taken in the next 24 hours but India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate is pretty sure that his team will take the field with two spinners at Edgbaston. There is a growing clamour to include wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav in the…
Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday urged India to resume the normal functioning of the Indus Waters Treaty, which New Delhi has held in abeyance since May, saying the recent decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague showed that the agreement was still “valid and operational”. India has never recognised the proceedings at the Permanent…
United Nations: An exhibition hosted by India, highlighting the human cost of heinous terrorist acts perpetrated across the world — from the Pahalgam terror attack to 9/11 — was unveiled at the United Nations headquarters on Monday. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar inaugurated the solemn exhibition titled “The Human Cost of Terrorism”, organised by…
Dharamshala: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday called for making legislatures more efficient by managing resources, defending democracy, and adopting innovations like Artificial Intelligence (AI). Inaugurating the Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) India Region, Zone-II here, Birla urged the state legislatures to share best practices, innovations, and technology to strengthen democratic…
United Nations: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday urged the global community to unite in ensuring that terrorists face no impunity, are not treated as proxies, and that there is “no yielding to nuclear blackmail”, as he asserted that India’s response to the Pahalgam attack underlines a message of zero tolerance towards terrorism. Jaishankar,…
Preamble Hijacked: Undoing the Politics of the 42nd Amendment The words “Secular” and “Socialist” were not part of the original Constitution adopted on 26 January 1950. These were inserted later through the 42nd Constitutional Amendment during the Emergency in 1976—an authoritarian period under Indira Gandhi’s rule. Today, there is a growing chorus among jurists, constitutional…
The wise, bold, and penetrating analysis of the son of Vayu touched the silent chords of Rama’s heart, stirring deep admiration for such practical and congenial discernment regarding Vibhishana. Fully convinced and inwardly pleased by this scientific study of past, present, and future, Rama found the counsel riskless and advantageous for the grand endeavour of…
Dashabhuja Ganapati Temple is in Rayadurgam, a historic town in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh. It is situated on a small hillock near the famous Rayadurg Fort. The temple’s presiding deity is Lord Ganesha in a rare and majestic form known as Dashabhuja Ganapati, which means “Ten-Armed Ganapati”. Unlike the usual four-armed form of Ganesha, here…
