Hyderabad: Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s son, Bageerath, was arrested on Saturday night in a POCSO case registered against him, and later remanded to judicial custody by a magistrate. “Police have arrested the accused,” a senior police official told PTI. In a release issued after midnight, the Cyberabad Commissioner of Police announced that various teams…
Kolkata: Finn Allen’s breathtaking 93 and Angkrish Raghuvanshi’s equally engaging 82 were the differentiators as Kolkata Knight Riders made Gujarat Titans pay heavily for their sloppy fielding to secure a 29-run win, keeping their slender playoff hopes alive in the IPL match here on Saturday. Allen’s explosive 35-ball knock laid the platform before Raghuvanshi, whose…
The Hague: The Netherlands on Saturday handed back 11th-century Chola dynasty copper plates to India, in an event attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Dutch counterpart Rob Jetten, signifying the strengthening of ties between the two countries. PM Modi, who arrived in the Netherlands on Friday after a brief stopover in the UAE…
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday stepped up its attack on the Centre over the NEET paper-leak issue, with Rahul Gandhi demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should immediately sack Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan or take responsibility himself. The youth wing of the Congress staged a protest here demanding Pradhan’s resignation over the issue and…
Vinay Rao The Boy Who Allegedly Paid Rs 25 Lakhs to Play for Hyderabad A complaint is lying inside the grievance system of the Hyderabad Cricket Association. A copy has already been marked to the Single Member Committee headed by Justice P. Naveen Rao. Weeks have passed. Nothing visible has moved. Nobody appears suspended. Nobody…
In my personal view, one of the biggest mistakes political observers make while assessing the Bharatiya Janata Party in South India is judging it through the lens of immediate electoral victories. The BJP does not usually think in terms of one election cycle. It thinks in decades. That is what fundamentally differentiates it from most…
Today, we hear a lot of news about 3-D printers and the recent commissioning of the Russian 3-D printer at ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, shows its importance in rapid prototyping and producing complex components for future missions like Gaganyaan, Chandrayaan and Bharatiya Antariksh Space Station. 3-D Printing is a marvel of modern…
There are ongoing sparking debates about whether PPU is a form of addiction or a disorder. Equally, some feminist scholars have expressed concerns regarding the medicalization of “porn addiction” by perceiving it as an illness. At this point, it is not very clear how we should portray and assess problematic pornography use (PPU). However, Fernandez…
Kathopanishad: Conversation between Lord Yama and Nachiketa This is the ancient Asvattha tree whose roots are above and branches below. That is verily the Pure, that is Brahman, and that is also called immortal. In that rest all the worlds, and none can transcend It. Verily, this is That. In Bhagavad Gita, Chapter. 15 –…
This is an article series. Please read all previous articles before reading this article. The URLs for all previous articles are located in the SPECIAL THOUGHTS section. Previously, we had learnt that Indra is the highest among all the Baahya Prapancha Devata-s. Baahya Prapancha refers to the outer world. As we had seen earlier, Ganapati,…
