Special Reports
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…
The Puranas, when read not merely as repositories of sacred narratives but also as historical traditions preserving dynastic memory, present a remarkable chronological framework extending from the aftermath of the Kurukshetra War to the rise of Mahapadma Nanda. The Matsya, Vayu and Brahmanda Puranas are particularly significant in this context, because the report points to…
The drone never reached Mecca. The message did. On September 15, Saudi Arabia said its air defences intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of Mecca before it entered the holy city’s restricted airspace. The Houthis denied that they had targeted Mecca. Yet the incident immediately became a powerful geopolitical story because the mere possibility…
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…
BG Srinivas The Ministry of Finance notification of 14 September 2026 has triggered a familiar cycle: alarm on social media, talk of a “UPI tax”, and a flood of AI-generated explainers dressed up as government releases. Some of what is circulating is accurate, some is not, and the actual picture deserves a sober reading. What…
Vinay Rao Here’s a question that sounds simple but isn’t: should the richest, best-run sports body in India have to follow the same rules as every other one? That’s what the Supreme Court asked BCCI on 8 September 2026. Not “you’re guilty of something.” Just: explain yourself. Why shouldn’t you and every state cricket association…
Every year, on the full-moon night of Kartik Purnima, thousands of people gather along the banks of the Mahanadi in Cuttack, Odisha, to float tiny handmade boats on the water. Made from paper, bamboo sticks, dried banana bark and pieces of cork, these little boats are more than colourful symbols of a festival. They carry…
For nearly 460 years, generations have looked at a map of the world without necessarily realising that they were looking at a mathematical compromise. The familiar world map was never designed to show the true size of countries and continents. It was created primarily to help sailors navigate. Yet a navigational tool gradually became something…
U Lakshman Rao The spectacular demonstrations of humanoid robots—running, sprinting, playing games, performing coordinated movements and even participating in sporting activities—represent an important achievement in robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. They demonstrate that machines can acquire sophisticated physical capabilities through a combination of sensors, actuators, computer vision, reinforcement learning, simulation and increasingly powerful computational…
For decades, Bharat was conditioned to believe that certain technologies were simply beyond its reach. High-end precision manufacturing was one of them. Whenever the country aspired to build sophisticated machines, the conventional wisdom was predictable: Why take the risk when Germany, Japan, or other advanced manufacturing nations could supply them? The result was not merely…
