2026

India’s Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela (REUTERS) India’s impressive run in badminton at the Asian Games suffered a double setback on Sunday as Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand and Dhruv Kapila-Tanisha Crasto bowed out in the quarterfinals after spirited fights against higher-ranked opponents.Treesa and Gayatri, who arrived at the Games on the back of a historic…

Power outage triggers road Blockade in North Chennai Chennai: Angry residents, woken up by an unscheduled power cut in the middle of the night, staged a road blockade on Paper Mills Road in Perambur, under Kolathur assembly constituency, early on Saturday. The power outage in DD Thottam and surrounding areas lasted more than two hours….

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi may not yet be a guaranteed name in India’s Playing XI, but at just 15, the teenager has already grown into a phenomenon that extends far beyond Indian cricket.In barely two years, Sooryavanshi has turned himself into a national sensation and, increasingly, a global sporting attraction. Among 15-year-old athletes, only Lamine Yamal can…

Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras has announced that it would be investing ₹55 crore into four startups — Hathor, Quanstra, Triolt Energy and Carbelim — in different areas including building cryogenic rocket engines, quantum applications, high-performance lithium-ion battery cells and air purification systems.IIT-M Research Park has announced the first close of its deeptech venture…