Bhopal: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday named Mahesh Kewat as its third candidate for the election to three Rajya Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh. Kewat, chairman of the Fishermen Welfare Board, will contest against Congress’ Meenakshi Natarajan for the third seat. Earlier, on Saturday, the two other BJP candidates, Tarun Chugh and Rajneesh…
New York: Police are offering a USD 20,000 reward for information leading to arrest in the killing of a 28-year-old Indian man in Philadelphia who was shot dead after delivering pizza to a vacant home. Anshul Kuncha, who hailed from Hyderabad, was shot in the back of the head and killed around 12:30 am Friday…
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday outlined a collaborative blueprint for making India into a developed country by 2047, emphasising that economic development needs to be inclusive. Addressing an event of the Maheshwari community here, Birla emphasised that entrepreneurship and nation-building must progress hand in hand to ensure that economic growth is…
Special Correspondent One of the greatest satisfactions in journalism comes not from breaking a story, but from seeing uncomfortable truths eventually acknowledged by those who once remained silent. For years, this e-paper has consistently highlighted the deep-rooted problems plaguing the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) — corruption, nepotism, favouritism, conflict of interest, manipulation of cricketing opportunities,…
Why Central Banks Still Need Both Gold and Treasuries M Radha Madhavi The global reserve landscape is undergoing a subtle but significant transformation, according to a recent analysis by the research team at Invictus Finserv LLP. The study points to the latest reserve data released by the European Central Bank (ECB), which shows gold accounting…
There was a time when Indian cricket treated spin bowling as an art form rather than a mere method of taking wickets. The ball did not simply travel from one end of the pitch to the other; it danced, drifted, dipped, teased and deceived. The spinner was not merely a bowler but a craftsman, a…
For years, anyone questioning Wikipedia’s neutrality was dismissed as paranoid, partisan, or simply unable to accept inconvenient facts. Wikipedia marketed itself as the world’s most trusted encyclopedia — a noble experiment where thousands of volunteers collaborated to create a repository of human knowledge free from political influence. That illusion is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain….
Days before Saturday’s protest, the Cockroach Janta Party’s online ecosystem was predicting nothing short of a political earthquake. Thousands of self-described ‘cockroaches’ were expected to descend upon Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and shake the foundations of the Modi government. Some enthusiasts spoke of crowds in the thousands. Others hinted at lakhs. Delhi is prepared for a…
Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao The sage Puruchhepa, in the refined cadence of the Antyesti chandas of the Rigveda, raises a solemn and luminous prayer to Pushan, the gentle yet vigilant solar deity whose presence pervades both the earthly pathways and the unseen realms beyond. In this sacred invocation, the seer contemplates a divinity who is not…
The formidable and cunning demon Alambusha confronted the youthful hero Abhimanyu upon the battlefield. Both warriors fought with relentless vigor, discharging volleys of arrows that struck one another with fierce precision. Their bodies bled from countless wounds, yet they stood unwavering, resembling crimson coral mountains rising proudly from the sea. Perceiving the growing power of…
