Guwahati: Rajasthan Royals’ teen batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on Monday said the team’s senior players and support staff, including head coach Kumar Sangakkara, have given him the freedom to keep playing his attacking game. The 15-year-old prodigy blazed away to a 15-ball fifty to power RR to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings…
New Delhi: A US airstrike at Iran’s Mashhad airport on Monday damaged a Mahan Air aircraft, potentially disrupting a mission to India to collect humanitarian aid, Iranian officials claimed. The plane was reportedly scheduled to fly to New Delhi this week to pick up essential medical supplies and aid for the Iranian people, they said….
Our Sports Bureau Hyderabad: The 12th edition of the Greenwood Cricket League (GCL) concluded on a high note on Sunday, at the BBC Court, with Smashers emerging as deserving champions after a clinical performance in the final. Boomerangs finished runners-up, while Snipers secured third place, followed by Warriors, Panthers, and Hustlers in the standings. In…
U Lakshman Rao In the long continuum of spiritual evolution, the tradition of Jainism recognizes twenty-four Tirthankaras—enlightened beings who arise from age to age to re-establish dharma and guide humanity toward liberation. Among them, the twenty-third, Parsvanatha, stands as a historically acknowledged figure, preparing the ground for the advent of the twenty-fourth and final Tirthankara,…
The slide of the Indian rupee to ₹95 against the US dollar is not merely a statistical marker—it is a signal flare from the deeper currents shaping the global and domestic economic landscape. Currency depreciation, while not uncommon in emerging markets, becomes a cause for concern when it is persistent, broad-based, and driven by structural…
(Opportunities, Fears, and the Search for Balance) The proposed bilateral trade agreement (2026) between India and the United States has emerged at a time when India, on the one hand, is moving towards expanding its participation in the global economy, while on the other hand, it faces the essential challenge of protecting its agriculture-based socio-economic…
There is a subtle but unmistakable shift underway in India’s governance architecture—one that does not always scream for headlines, but steadily reshapes the nation’s institutional ethos. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the rise of women from the margins to the mainstream of governance is no longer symbolic—it is structural, deliberate, and deeply political in the…
How two small, broken nations invented conglomerates to compress a century of growth into twenty years, and what it means for India’s big gamble. In 1960, South Korea had a lower per capita income than Ghana. Japan lay in the ash of two atomic bombs. Today, one is the world’s tenth-largest economy; the other, the fourth….
Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao The sage Sāvya, son of the seer of the Angirasa lineage, raises his voice in praise of the mighty Indra through the sacred hymns of the Rigveda, composed in the majestic meters of Jagatī and Triṣṭubh. In these hymns, the seer unfolds not merely ritual devotion but a profound vision of cosmic…
Kunti, standing in the presence of Krishna, enquired with tender concern about the welfare of her sons and spoke of their virtues with restrained pride. With equal reverence, she sought news of her daughter-in-law Draupadi, her voice soft yet earnest, revealing an affection deeper than mere inquiry, for her heart leaned strongly toward that noble…
