2026

Sachin Tendulkar honours father Ramesh Tendulkar (Image: @sachin_rt/x) Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar marked Teachers’ Day with a heartfelt tribute to his father and first mentor, Ramesh Tendulkar, while announcing the Professor Ramesh Tendulkar Memorial Fellowship to support young doctors specialising in cleft and craniofacial care.Tendulkar took to X to reflect on the influence his father…

CHENNAI: Amid cheers, hugs and proud smiles from their families, 342 officer cadets were welcomed into the Indian Army as commissioned officers, as they passed out of the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai on Saturday.The passing-out parade of the SSC-122nd and SSC (Women)-36th batches saw 313 men and 29 women commissioned into various Arms…

Uruguay team (Pic credit: Selección Uruguaya) NEW DELHI: India’s historic football date with Uruguay has gained even more star power, with two-time world champions Uruguay naming a 46-player preliminary list featuring some of the biggest names in world football for their September-October FIFA international window.Federico Valverde, Darwin Núñez, Ronald Araújo, José María Giménez, Rodrigo Bentancur…

Chennai: With the northeast monsoon weeks away, Tambaram Corporation has stepped up dengue prevention measures, deploying around 700 mosquito breeding control workers across its 70 wards to identify and eliminate breeding sites before the rains intensify.According to corporation officials, workers inspected more than 1.2 lakh houses over the past week and destroyed over 4,500 potential…