Special Reports
M Shyam Sparsha India is no longer merely a market for aircraft sales; it is fast transforming into one of the world’s most consequential aerospace manufacturing and innovation hubs. Over the past decade, a convergence of skilled talent, cost efficiency, policy clarity, and strategic intent has propelled India into the global aerospace value chain—drawing the…
What an Administrative Misjudgement, Selection Bias, and Ethical Blind Spots Are Undermining the Game? By Vinay Rao Hyderabad, after setting a target of 269 and reducing Jammu & Kashmir to 99/7, appeared to be heading towards a regulation win. What followed was unthinkable. An eighth-wicket partnership turned the match on its head and carried J&K…
The 79th meeting of the Board of Governors (BoG) of NIPER Mohali was held on 22 March 2023 under the chairmanship of Dr. Girish Sahni, former Director General, CSIR. Subsequent to amendments to the NIPER Act, representatives of different authorities were permitted to attend Board meetings. This amendment was carried out after I, as Director…
By P. L. Srinivas What is unfolding at Jawaharlal Nehru University today is not dissent. It is a defiance of constitutional order. And it deserves to be called out—not politically, but nationally. I write this not merely as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, but as a former student leader of the Congress’s National…
Special Correspondent For months, allegations of corruption in Hyderabad cricket selections have refused to fade. Parents, former players, and insiders have repeatedly flagged irregularities, only to be met with silence, procedural evasions, or the familiar refrain: “Bring concrete proof.” That proof—at least in part—now appears to be on record. Investigators from Orangenews9 have accessed documentary…
Special Correspondent The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), displaying startling defiance amid mounting dissent and serious questions over legal sanctity, has once again recirculated the same controversial circular to its affiliated club secretaries on January 2—apparently unmoved by growing opposition, constitutional objections, and warnings of illegality. The move comes even as former office-bearers continue to publicly…
When Belief Became Titles From Contenders to Champions — India Women’s Cricket Has Truly Arrived In the grand tapestry of Indian cricket history, some moments don’t merely shimmer — they redefine an era. The rise of the Indian women’s cricket team under Harmanpreet Kaur’s captaincy is precisely one such chapter. What we are witnessing is…
By Alekya Pratap Neelakantam No honest observer can claim that all is hunky-dory on women’s issues in India. Isolated atrocities continue to scar society and demand collective introspection. Yet, to deny the scale, intent, and continuity of the Narendra Modi government’s push for women’s empowerment would be willful blindness. For decades, successive governments spoke the…
Special Correspondent The recent attempt by the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) to initiate amendments to its Constitution has raised serious procedural, legal, and governance-related concerns, warranting careful examination and documentation. This report places on record the sequence of events, objections raised by stakeholders, and the broader implications of the ongoing exercise. A former Secretary of…
Hope readers remember this headline—the very one with which your e-paper launched an exposure series against what had become one of the most compromised and corroded state cricket bodies in the country. The tragedy was not merely administrative rot, but the painful irony that many of the destroyers were once national representatives themselves. Exposing this…
