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Permission can’t be granted to shoot film starring Mohanlal: Periyar Tiger Reserve to Kerala HC

Kochi:  The deputy director of the Periyar Tiger Reserve on Monday told the Kerala High Court that permission cannot be granted to shoot a film starring actor Mohanlal, saying that judicial and government orders prohibit shooting commercial movies or television serials within wildlife sanctuaries, national parks or tiger reserves. The submission was made in response…

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From Pay-to-Play to Merit-to-Play – Part III

Special Correspondent The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) has spent enough time dealing with controversies, committees, allegations and administrative battles. The time has come to ask a much more fundamental question: What kind of cricketing system does Hyderabad want to build for the next generation? The answer cannot be another cosmetic administrative reform. It cannot simply…

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A journo who covered Parliament for quite long and saw seven PMs from the Press Gallery

I wish to briefly introduce my erstwhile senior colleague in one of the leading English dailies in Hyderabad, Deccan Chronicle, who is not only a prolific writer, but also revered as an upright journalist holding professional ethics and morals. That’s P.A. Rama Rao. He sent me this article, and I consider it my privilege to…

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Columnist-M.S.Shanker

BJP’s New Nari Shakti

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s new national team under president Nitin Nabin is more than a routine organisational reshuffle. Read carefully, it is a political statement: the BJP is putting women, experienced political hands and organisationally tested leaders closer to the centre of decision-making as it prepares for the next electoral battles. The most striking feature…

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Proud ‘Dimagi Naxal’: Connecting the dots on Chidambaram’s remark

Politics often reveals more through the words chosen in a moment of confrontation than through carefully drafted speeches. When a former Union Home Minister publicly embraces a phrase that the Prime Minister uses to describe an ideological challenge to the State, the remark deserves more than a passing political response. It deserves scrutiny. That is…

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