CATEGORIES

Four-month-old baby of child marriage victim dies in K'giri

A four-month-old daughter of a woman, a victim of child marriage, died due to health complications on Thursday night.

Suspicious survey by US firm: HC orders probe

Company conducted controversial survey involving questions on Kerala Muslims in 2010 without Union govt's nod

Kasthuri arrested by Chennai cops from friend's house in Hyderabad

A special team of Chennai police, on Saturday, arrested actor Kasthuri Shankar from a house in Hyderabad.

Woman yet to get panchayat prez charge despite HC order

DESPITE more than 20 days after a court declared A Priyadharshini Iyaappan as the Sankarapuram panchayat president in October this year, she is yet to be given official charge.

Molotov cocktail hurled at theatre screening 'Amaran'

SOME unidentified miscreants hurled petrol bombs (molotov cocktail) at Alankar Theatre at the screening of actor Sivakarthikeyan's biographical drama, 'Amaran', at Melapalayam in Tirunelveli early on Saturday.

Pvt colleges want to hike med fee, move HC

THE Madras High Court has ordered notice to the government and the Committee for Fixation of Fee for private self-financing colleges on a petition filed by the TN Self-Financing Medical Colleges Association seeking increase in the fee for MBBS for 2022-25 academic years by revoking an order passed by the committee in this regard.

Pvt colleges want to hike med fee, move HC

THE Madras High Court has ordered notice to the government and the Committee for Fixation of Fee for private self-financing colleges on a petition filed by the TN Self-Financing Medical Colleges Association seeking increase in the fee for MBBS for 2022-25 academic years by revoking an order passed by the committee in this regard.

Research will be held in Kallar farm without hindering elephants: Govt

THE Tamil Nadu Horticulture department has informed the Madras High Court that research activities would be carried out in the state horticulture farm at Kallar in The Nilgiris district without hindering the movement of elephants.

How Sadiq used films to turn drug money kosher

ABOUT eight months after Jaffer Sadiq's alleged involvement in drug trade came to light, the expelled DMK leader in 2021 pivoted his business empire from metal scrap, fish trade and hospitality towards the Tamil film industry, where he pumped in at least ₹10 crore, investigations by Enforcement Directorate (ED) has found.

Yellow alert for three delta dists today

A yellow alert has been issued by the Regional Meteorological Centre for possible heavy rain over isolated places in Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur districts on Sunday.

Digital crop survey involving agri students halted after controversy

Agri secretary says work related to the survey stopped temporarily owing to rainy season

Hold talks, end row over V-C selection, say experts

TWO days after UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar made it clear that it was mandatory to have a UGC nominee in the VC selection panel, academics are worried the stalemate between the state and the centre over the issue might continue, resulting in further delay of V-C appointments in five state universities.

Valluvar in saffron at guv event sparks row again

GOVERNOR RN Ravi kicked up a controversy again on Saturday when Raj Bhavan used a photo of poet Thiruvalluvar clad in saffron on an invite for a two-day seminar it hosted titled the 'Multi lingual international seminar: A comparative study on Kabir Das-Thiruvalluvar-Yogi Vemana'.

Traders at Koyambedu market protest against poor waste management

TRADERS at Koyambedu Market staged a protest on Saturday, raising concerns over persistent sanitation issues and poor solid waste management.

Two youths go missing in sea off Mahabs

TWO youths from Chennai, Girish Keshav (20) and Syed Riyaz (19), went missing while playing in the waters off Mahabalipuram beach on Friday afternoon.

City cops nab ‘serial’ burglar

The Mambalam police on Friday arrested ‘Nemilicherry’ Vinod Kumar (27) on charges of burgling a house in T-Nagar, belonging to an elderly couple, and stealing ₹10,000.

Waste dumping on open plots: Owners fined ₹1.4L

To stop vacant lands from turning into dumping grounds and prevent water stagnation, the Tambaram City Municipal Corporation (TCMC) has imposed a penalty of ₹1.4 lakh on 42 land owners for failing to fence or put up boundary walls on vacant properties.

Water level in Chembarambakkam lake 40 percent less than last year

Of 3.64 tmcft capacity, reservoir has 1.9 tmcft water, officials attribute drop to monsoon delay

Wings of Hope That Weathered A Storm

Like an abandoned battlefield post-war, the farmlands in Peravurani lay in peril with rows of uprooted coconut trees all over. The 2018 cyclone Gaja had left behind in its wake an oppressive silence and a long trail of destruction.

A badge of honour, heart of gold

Rajadeepan does not wear a cape and his uniform certainly lacks the mystique of the Superman suit, but his commitment to empowering the vulnerable is nothing short of heroic.

Five Maoists shot dead in Chhattisgarh

FIVE cadres of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), including two women fighters in uniform, were gunned down by security forces in an encounter on Saturday in the north Abujhmad area located along the edgy inter-district borders of Narayanpur-Kanker in Chhattisgarh.

Land given to descendants of Kattabomman sold illegally

SEVERAL acres of 'assigned patta land' given by the Tamil Nadu government to the descendants of Veerapandiya Kattabomman, the legendary palayakarar or poligar of Panchalankurichi who fought the British East India company with great valour and was killed through treachery, has been illegally sold to non-family members over the years in violation of norms.

Imphal valley on boil, mob storms houses of ministers

Speculation rife on some BJP MLAs submitting resignation today

Friday speech to be vetted: Waqf Board

IN what is decidedly the first such directive anywhere in the country, the Chhattisgarh State Waqf Board in the BJP-ruled state issued a circular to the Mutawallis (caretakers) of all mosques asking them to get the sermons they deliver every Friday afternoon before the prayer vetted by it.

‘Naanum Rowdy Dhaan’: Nayanthara spars with Dhanush over Netflix documentary

ACTOR Nayanthara took to Instagram on Saturday to address a legal dispute involving actor-director Dhanush, accusing him of obstructing the making of her Netflix documentary Nayanthara: Beyond the Fairytale.

CONSTRAINED BY TAKHT, BADAL CALLS IT QUITS

EMBATTLED Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday submitted his resignation, drawing the curtain over two decades of dynastic rule in the second oldest political party in the country.

CLINGS TO FACTS BUT SACRIFICES THE DRAMA

You can hear a clock ticking in almost every scene of Freedom at Midnight. The historical drama chronicles the events that led to India's independence, dampened by the horrific reality of the Partition.

A stirring ode to the power of shared dreams

WHAT makes a nation? Kings? Heroes? Laws? Ridley Scott presents a stirring tale of unabashed romanticism to tell us that a nation is perhaps a shared dream. Gladiator II begins with Numidian soldiers, men and women, taking up arms to defend their motherland against the invading Roman army.

A thousand-year-old spectacle with only a few seconds of soul

HERE'S great joy in watching new worlds come alive on screen—living conditions, attire, language, pastimes, poetry, expression of love... Clearly, countless hours and endless effort must have gone into conjuring up such a world from over a thousand years ago.

On the fight to stop pneumonia

VERY year, the world observes November 12 as Pneumonia Day. This year, the theme was 'Championing the Fight to Stop Pneumonia'.