Special Reports
U Lakshman Rao In today’s digital life, “Good Morning” has become more than a greeting for many people. Every day, WhatsApp fills with verses, quotations, downloaded pictures, motivational messages, jokes, religious thoughts, philosophical views and assorted material from different platforms. The sender often believes that forwarding such content is a thoughtful and meaningful gesture. The…
It was in the year 1988, in May, at the peak of summer in Hyderabad, that a visit to Sikkim, Darjeeling and Kalimpong via Siliguri and Bagdogra, after a flight to Calcutta, remains nostalgic even today. Glimpses of that journey remain captured in the mind as though etched there eternally. The Himalayan ranges are a…
Vinay Rao Every player Hyderabad has sent to Ranji and beyond came through one door — the league. It survived being disrupted once already; the courts had to step in to save it from the people running it, and it earned its credibility back the hard way, weekend after weekend. This season, the league isn’t…
Having followed cricket for more than six decades, I sometimes find the logic of today’s game rather confusing. The game has certainly evolved, and there is nothing wrong with innovation. But innovation should not mean abandoning the basic principles that have made successful cricket teams successful for generations. I have had the privilege of watching…
For those who have spent the better part of the past decade predicting that Bharat’s economy is either slowing, collapsing or somehow surviving only on statistical jugglery, Monday’s GDP numbers should make for uncomfortable reading. The economy grew a robust 7.8 per cent in the first quarter of FY2026-27, sharply beating the Reserve Bank of…
Dr Sandhya Rani Bombay NEET is not just a test of memory. It is a test of perspective.NEET preparation is no longer only about how many hours you study. It is about how many angles you can think from. Every NEET aspirant has access to the same NCERT books, coaching material, and YouTube lectures. So…
Vinay Rao HCA’s new season calendar arrived with real credibility behind it — a defined Super League stage, open trials across districts, practice matches for every category, and the imprint of serious cricketing names attached to this phase of the association’s work. On paper, it’s the most structured selection system Hyderabad cricket has had in…
Special Correspondent Indian cricket may be flourishing on the field, but the picture off it is becoming increasingly uncomfortable. The latest controversy surrounding the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) and the continuing turmoil in the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) may appear, on the surface, to be two separate disputes. In reality, they expose a strikingly similar…
MS Sparsha For years, the equation was brutally simple. If India wanted advanced artificial intelligence, cloud computing and massive computing power, it had to largely depend on technology companies from the United States and other global giants. The servers were owned by companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Computing power was rented, often in…
There are some infrastructure projects whose importance goes far beyond the concrete, steel and wires that go into building them. They change the destiny of an entire region. The Srinagar–Alusteng–Drass–Kargil–Khaltsi–Leh 220 kV Transmission Line is one such project. On February 3, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally dedicated this remarkable piece of high-altitude infrastructure to…
