Special Reports
Chinese AI tool raises fresh concerns over misuse MS Sparsha The intensifying race in artificial intelligence between the United States and China is producing remarkable advances. But it is also exposing a darker question: what happens when increasingly capable AI systems can be persuaded to cross the very safety boundaries their developers have built to…
BG Srinivas There was a time when a family had one doctor. Not a cardiologist for the heart, a nephrologist for the kidney, a neurologist for the brain, a dermatologist for the skin and an orthopaedician for the knee. There was simply the family doctor. He knew you. He knew your blood pressure, your blood…
Cleanse First, Then Vote Special Correspondent In Part I of this series, the central question was simple but uncomfortable: why has justice and meaningful reform moved so slowly in Hyderabad cricket despite years of litigation, judicial interventions, committees and repeated assurances? Part II must confront the more difficult question: what should happen now? The answer…
Vijay Gajera Is the United States deliberately weakening its own allies and confronting Russia as part of a larger strategy to contain China? Or is the world witnessing a more complicated struggle in which Washington, Moscow, Beijing and Europe are all pursuing competing interests? The answer may lie somewhere between the two extremes. But one…
Shrikant Rao With the commissioning of its landmark Rs 5,427-crore integrated iron ore project in Chhattisgarh on September 27, 2026, the state-owned National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), India’s premier public sector mining heavyweight, has unveiled a massive logistics and sustainability breakthrough that permanently alters the economics of India’s domestic steel sector. The infrastructure launch includes…
HCA and controversies appear to have become inseparable, a reality that every serious stakeholder in Telangana cricket has witnessed over the years. What makes the situation more disturbing is that repeated judicial interventions, committees, audits and investigations have not brought the expected institutional transformation. Why does the cycle continue? Money, influence, glamour and proximity to…
Shekhar Maramraju In the modern hyper-connected era, internet folklore has an uncanny ability to morph into widely accepted alternative reality. Few subjects demonstrate this phenomenon better than the legend of the TR-3B “Black Manta”—a persistent aerospace rumour and unverified conspiracy theory that completely lacks official military proof, documentation, or physical evidence. The myth recently saw…
For generations, Indian traditions such as homas and yajnas have often been dismissed in some quarters as superstition, blind faith or meaningless ritual. But what happens when something embedded in an ancient tradition is subjected to a scientific experiment and produces a measurable result? That is precisely where the conversation about havan smoke becomes interesting….
Children are a face of God. When they are young, they play with innocence, freedom and a remarkable ability to perform without carrying the burden of expectations. In cricket, particularly at the junior level, that performance should matter far more than the labels we attach to a youngster. We often hear that a particular boy…
We wish to make it yet again abundantly clear to the administrators of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) that whatever appears in the Orangenews9 Sports pages or columns concerning the Association is based on hard facts and information shared by aggrieved parties and others, particularly as no other mainstream media platform has chosen to provide…
