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If you don’t play Vaibhav in T2OIs now, when will you give him chance?: Gavaskar

New Delhi:  Sunil Gavaskar believes that teen prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is “God’s gift to Indian cricket” and needs to be picked for their upcoming white-ball tour of England even if it comes at the cost of dropping an established top order batter from the playing eleven. Gavaskar, who saw Sooryavanshi’s astonishing 29-ball-97 against Sunrisers Hyderabad…

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Shah reviews preparations for Commonwealth Games

Ahmedabad:  Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday held a meeting to review preparations for the Commonwealth Games and proposed the Olympics to be hosted in Ahmedabad. Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi and senior officials were present at the meeting. Attending the review were Sports…

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Columnist M S Shanker, Orange News 9

HCA: Revolution or Return of Rogues?

The Hyderabad Cricket Association’s proposed TG20 league was supposed to be a revolution. For once, many believed Hyderabad cricket would finally escape the suffocating grip of middlemen, academy cartels, backdoor selectors, and the invisible power brokers who have reduced one of India’s proudest cricket centres into a marketplace of favouritism and manipulation. Instead, before the…

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Congress and the Curse of Power Struggles

MP Rabindranath The political tremors in Karnataka are being watched closely in Telangana. In Indian politics, especially within the Congress ecosystem, developments in one state rarely remain confined to that geography alone. Leadership crises, factional wars, and high-command interventions have historically travelled across states like political contagion. The latest developments in Karnataka have once again…

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Columnist-M.S.Shanker

Justice Needed Noise

The unfolding Twisha Singh case has once again exposed an uncomfortable truth about India’s justice system — that justice often moves only when public pressure becomes impossible to ignore. And in this case, much of that pressure came not from politicians, activists or bureaucrats, but from an aggressive and relentless media campaign. The decision of…

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