Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay launched the expansion of the breakfast scheme for school students. Vijay launched the scheme at a school here and served students food and also ate with them. Later, he visited classrooms and interacted with students. About 15.30 lakh additional students, in classes six to eight, studying in…
New Delhi: Realty firm Embassy Developments has agreed to sell a luxury residential tower in Mumbai to Angel One CMD Dinesh Thakkar for Rs 711 crore, marking one of the largest housing deals in the country. The tower has a total carpet area of 63,000 sq ft. In a regulatory filing on Tuesday, the company…
United Nations: India has co-sponsored an inaugural multilateralism summit at the UN “at a time when the global order is under stress”, as New Delhi asserted that more participative deliberations and transparent decision-making are overdue. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday co-chaired the first-ever ‘Partners for Multilateralism, International Law, Peace & Prosperity (P4M)’ Summit…
Special Correspondent On 24 April 2026, the Telangana High Court reconfirmed Justice (Retd.) P. Naveen Rao as the Single Member Committee overseeing the Hyderabad Cricket Association, and did more than renew a tenure — it sharpened one. The Court defined an eight-point scope of authority, directed the Apex Council to work in coordination with the…
The tragic death of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode is yet another reminder of how quickly a campus tragedy can become a battleground of competing narratives. Wakode was reportedly caught using a mobile phone during a mid-semester examination on September 18. Hours later, he was found dead. His family subsequently alleged caste-based discrimination and mental…
New Delhi: Faculty members at IIT-Delhi on Monday came out in support of IIT-Bombay professor Suryanarayana Doolla, who has been removed as the dean of administrative affairs after protests by students and political activists over the suicide of a 22-year-old student, saying he was only discharging his duties. Sahil Wakode, a second-year BTech student in…
Orangenews9 is pleased to introduce a new series of articles devoted to the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most profound spiritual and philosophical texts of Sanatana Dharma. This initiative follows the overwhelming response from readers to our earlier articles exploring the spiritual traditions of Sanatana Dharma, presented by learned Vedic scholars and writers such as…
M Jaishree The creation of the universe is an unseen transition and a continuous process of peaceful growth. What appears to the human eye as stillness is, in reality, an immeasurable movement. The cosmos performs its immense duty silently, without announcement, without fatigue and without waiting for an external reminder or command. From the movement…
MS Sparsha Before the dotcom bubble burst and erased billions of dollars in paper wealth, a Hubballi-born entrepreneur had already become a central figure in one of the most spectacular public-market debuts in telecommunications history. But the more remarkable part of Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande’s story is what he did after the bubble burst. An alumnus…
Former Vice-President Hamid Ansari has every democratic right to express his political and ideological views. But when a former occupant of one of Bharat’s highest Constitutional offices describes Hindu right-wing communalism as the greater danger to the nation, he cannot expect the statement to pass without scrutiny. At the A.G. Noorani Memorial Lecture, Ansari invoked…
