V SriramThe year 2024–25 was a watershed for India’s state-owned power distribution sector, which turned profitable on an aggregate basis after more than a decade. What should ordinarily have been a routine business outcome becoming headline news underscores the condition of India’s state-owned electricity distribution system. While the sector has turned the corner nationally, Tamil…
You’re in a steady, switched-on mood today. Saturn supports your discipline, so you’ll feel active and clear, even if the day has a full schedule.Students take interest in studies, and you’ll notice how focus comes easier when you stop multitasking. The mind feels like a well-tuned instrument now, calm and strong.If you’re travelling for work,…
Coimbatore: A 45-year-old city-based jewellery workshop owner was cheated of Rs46.9 lakh by online fraudsters who lured him with a promise of high returns through share market investments.Police said the victim, who runs a jewellery workshop at Chokkampudur near Selvapuram, accepted a Facebook friend request from an unknown woman in March. “After chatting with him…
Bob Odenkirk is opening up like never before about his near-death experience while filming the final season of ‘Better Call Saul’. Recalling getting a heart attack on the film sets, the actor revealed that it was much more serious than the tabloids amde fans believe back in 2021.While promoting his film ‘Normal’, Odenkirk spoke to…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. File | Photo Credit: AP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (May 17, 2026) that Israel had almost completed a key goal of the war in Gaza — eliminating all those responsible for orchestrating the October 7 attack. His remarks followed the Israeli military’s announcement that Ezzedine Al-Haddad, commander…
Chennai: The split within AIADMK widened and percolated to the grassroots across Tamil Nadu as more party offices got locked and brought under a security ring, as cadres of both factions attempt to take over the offices.After Villupuram, Cuddalore, Pudukkottai and Karur, an AIADMK office in Dindigul was locked to prevent a clash between the…
Something shifts in your personal life today, in a good way. Venus and Jupiter support connections, so unmarried individuals may receive new marriage proposals, and young couples could reunite after a long gap.You’ll feel more open to listening, yet your Scorpio instinct stays sharp. That’s a good combination. Let people talk, then decide quietly.Legal matters…
Coimbatore: Finance minister K A Sengottaiyan has blamed AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami for the vertical split in the party.Speaking to reporters in Coimbatore on Sunday, Sengottaiyan said the movement built by iconic leaders M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa had lost much of its strength because of EPS’s approach.“Looking at Edappadi Palaniswami’s stand,…
Barbra Streisand announced on Sunday that she will not attend the Cannes Film Festival ‘s closing ceremony later this week where she was to receive an honorary Palme d’Or, after sustaining a knee injury.The festival organizers said they would still honor the singer-actor despite her absence, according to a press release that carried Streisand’s statement….
A wave of militant attacks on schools in Nigeria over the past week has left more than 80 children missing, local officials and a rights group said Sunday (May 17, 2026), the latest in school abductions in the West African country where the government is battling an array of jihadi and other armed groups. The…