N Jagannath Das This day eight years ago (October 30), Maturi Venkat Sridhar left us. He was just 51 years old when he succumbed to cardiac arrest. Sridhar was a quintessential all-round personality — a man of many talents. He was Hyderabad’s leading run-getter, scoring 6,701 runs with 21 hundreds between the 1988 and 1999-2000…
It’s election season again — that time when suddenly every political party discovers the existence of “minorities.” And by minorities, of course, they mean only one community — Muslims. The rest, like Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, or Parsis, might as well be invisible. Their votes apparently don’t come in bulk or swing margins. Political mathematics,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will address two rallies in poll-bound Bihar on Thursday and exuded confidence that the voters will ensure a grand victory of the BJP-NDA. Modi kicked off the NDA campaign for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections by addressing rallies in Samastipur and Begusarai on October 24. “My family…
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said he feared forces “from home and abroad” to thwart planned general elections over barring deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League from contesting. “Many forces from inside and outside the country will work to spoil the election. Many powerful forces, not minor ones, will attempt…
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi has insulted all devotees of ‘Chhath Maiya’ by calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s devotion for the goddess a drama, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said, asserting that the Congress leader and Mahagathbandhan will have to suffer major consequences in the upcoming Bihar polls. He said the entire country prays…
Peshawar: At least six soldiers, including a Captain, were killed in an IED blast targeting a convoy of the security forces in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing, said. The convoy came under attack in the Sultani area in the restive Kurram tribal district…
Special Correspondent The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), already reeling from years of mismanagement and legal battles, has once again tripped over its own contradictions. In yet another bewildering move, the truncated apex council of HCA released a self-congratulatory press statement on Wednesday, claiming “vindication” after the Telangana High Court refused to grant relief to some…
The smouldering ruins of Gaza, where at least 91 Palestinians were killed in Israel’s latest airstrikes, are all that remain of yet another “peace plan” sold to the world by Donald Trump’s loud diplomacy. Israel calls it retaliation for Hamas killing a soldier. The world, however, can see it for what it is — another…
In an age where borders blur into digital abstractions and wars of ideology spill into daily life, intelligence agencies have become the mythmakers of our time. Among them, Mossad—Israel’s fabled spy network—appears to have quietly entered one of the world’s most combustible zones: Pakistan. This is not mere espionage theatre, but a window into the…
In the royal city of Indraprastha, King Dharmaja, eldest of the Pandavas, ruled with a hand at once firm and gentle. To the scholars of every Vedic branch, he offered worship and generous gifts, so that the sacred schools flourished and the teachers, priests, and sages found in him a sovereign of rare balance. Vassal…
