Special Reports
Hyderabad is not just another cricketing centre. It is a founding member of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and has contributed to Indian cricket in almost every department — administration, umpiring, playing and coaching. Yet, when one looks back at the history of Indian cricket, there is an unmistakable feeling that Hyderabad’s…
U Lakshman Rao The transformation from money orders, demand drafts and counter-based banking to instant digital payments is not merely a technological story. It is a story about the economic value of time, the dignity of ordinary citizens, the efficiency of markets and the gradual movement of financial power from institutions toward individuals. The significance…
India’s recent patenting of BAM-H24, a boron-rich energetic compound developed by scientists associated with ACRHEM, now DIA-CoE, at the University of Hyderabad under DRDO, has understandably attracted attention. But the significance of the development lies not in the broad claim that India has “cracked boron rocket fuel”, but in something more specific: an Indian team…
An Aggrieved Parent The announcement of Hyderabad’s Ranji Trophy squad, with Mohammed Siraj taking over the captaincy, has inevitably brought one notable omission into focus — Shaunak Kulkarni. Shaunak is not a name that has suddenly appeared on the Hyderabad cricket radar. He has progressed through the local cricket structure, performed consistently in the leagues…
K S Nagarajan Should a citizen keep knocking at the doors of justice to strengthen the fulcrum of the Constitution, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Bharat—or should he simply give up when institutions meant to protect his rights appear unwilling to hear him? This is the question I am confronting as a former government servant…
MS Sparsha Some of the most consequential ideas in technology do not begin with billion-dollar laboratories or celebrated corporate research teams. Sometimes they begin with a young Indian professor, a difficult computer-science puzzle and an idea that nobody seems interested in buying. Suhas Patil’s journey is one such story. Born in Jamshedpur, where his father…
Special Correspondent The Telangana High Court’s latest order in the Classic Cricket Club case may have brought procedural closure to the litigation, but it has hardly brought closure to the controversy surrounding the 57 Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) clubs whose voting rights and participation in General Body meetings remain under a cloud. In what many…
The Puranas, when read not merely as repositories of sacred narratives but also as historical traditions preserving dynastic memory, present a remarkable chronological framework extending from the aftermath of the Kurukshetra War to the rise of Mahapadma Nanda. The Matsya, Vayu and Brahmanda Puranas are particularly significant in this context, because the report points to…
The drone never reached Mecca. The message did. On September 15, Saudi Arabia said its air defences intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of Mecca before it entered the holy city’s restricted airspace. The Houthis denied that they had targeted Mecca. Yet the incident immediately became a powerful geopolitical story because the mere possibility…
MS Shanker Orangenews9 greets a Prime Minister who transformed the aspirations of the ordinary Bharatiya on his 76th birthday today. Can any political leader change the way an ordinary citizen looks at his or her own possibilities? Narendra Modi’s remarkable journey from Vadnagar to the Prime Minister’s Office offers perhaps the most compelling example in…
