Thanjavur/Chennai: The ruling TVK escalated its protest against DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin over his allegedly offensive remarks directed at a film actor, filing complaints with both the local police and the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday. A police complaint was lodged at the Thanjavur East Police Station by S Bairavi, the TVK’s Central…
New Delhi: Pullela Gopichand still remembers the disruption caused by badminton’s scoring overhaul during his playing career and as the sport gears up to embrace another “tactical shift”, the India coach believes a few players will be “wiped off”. The 15×3 system (three games of 15 points each) will replace the current 21×3 format (three…
Democracy is not weakened when questions are asked. It is weakened when questions are dismissed without answers. In a constitutional democracy, no institution—whether it wears political colours, religious robes or spiritual attire—should claim immunity from public scrutiny. If governments, corporations, NGOs and religious organizations can all be investigated whenever credible complaints arise, why should any…
Special Correspondent In what is being viewed as a significant step towards decentralising cricket development across Telangana, the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) has constituted a District Cricket Infrastructure Development Committee (DCIDC) with former HCA Secretary T. Sheshnarayan as its Chairman. The development assumes significance in the backdrop of proceedings initiated by the Telangana Cricket Association…
New Delhi: Social media giant Meta is learnt to have told a parliamentary committee on Monday that it is ready to apologise for the brief restriction on a post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook, as a section of members demanded legal action and sought fixing of accountability. At a meeting of the department-related…
Bengaluru/Chennai: Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Monday said the state government will respond to neighbouring Tamil Nadu’s approach to the Supreme Court on the Cauvery issue, as per legal advice. The Tamil Nadu government on Monday moved the Supreme Court over the Cauvery dispute with Karnataka, saying the quantum allocated to it by the…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday slammed the BJP over its poor performance in the recent by-polls, asserting that this marks the beginning of change. Calling it a combined result of the youth’s unity and outrage stemming from various other issues, he said, “Even the BJP’s safest and most traditional seats will no…
New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Nabin on Monday accepted the people’s mandate in three assembly bypolls, saying the party will conduct a “thorough introspection” of the election results in Bankipur and Datia seats in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh respectively and work tirelessly to further strengthen their trust with renewed energy. This came after the BJP…
Questions over institutional representation, financial transactions and governance demand credible answers T Shesh Narayan For nearly eight years after the Hon’ble Supreme Court ushered in sweeping governance reforms in Indian cricket through its landmark judgment in the BCCI constitutional reforms, one fundamental question continues to haunt the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA): Who is responsible for…
The biggest casualty of selective activism is credibility. The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which rode to national prominence by championing the cause of students during the NEET-UG paper leak controversy, now finds itself trapped by an uncomfortable question of its own making: Does its outrage stop where Congress governments begin? For months, CJP projected itself…
