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LIVE EXCHANGE OF FUTURES & OPTIONS IN MAHA POLLS
This week, voters in Maharashtra have a date with democracy. The verdict will set the tone of national politics as it unveils a parade of epitaphs and obituaries on politicos and parties.
THE GANDHI TRINITY VS SOLO MODI
Parliament, where the numbers game wins, is familiar with double whammies. This time, the Congress will have a triple whammy when Priyanka Gandhi enters the Lok Sabha as a member from South India.
ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF CONVENIENCE
IN my morning walks in the university campus where I am a scholar-in-residence, I initially saw piles of waste everywhere.
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.