At least 12 people, including two women and two children, were killed and 18 others injured when a suicide bomber belonging to the banned terror outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan targeted a police checkpost in northwest Pakistan on Saturday (September 26, 2026), an official said. According to Pakistan’s national emergency response service Rescue 1122, the incident occurred…
Chennai: IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP) and deep-tech-focused venture capital firm Unicorn India Ventures announced the first close of its fund at Rs 450 crore. It has also backed four deep-tech startups. The announcements were made on Saturday in the presence of union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.The fund has a total target corpus of Rs…
COIMBATORE: TVK chief spokesperson C Mahendran on Saturday said eliminating corruption and bribery requires not only govt action but also active cooperation of its employees.Mahendran was speaking on the sidelines of the first coordinators’ meeting of the newly formed Tamil Nadu Officers and Teachers Vettri Sangam (Tamilaga Aluvalar Asiriyar Vetrichangam) for the Coimbatore region.The meeting…
Karthik Subbaraj’s ‘Dorothy’ has become a subject of online discussion following its theatrical release on September 25, with social media conversations focusing, among other things, on its reported LGBTQ-related themes. The development has also prompted comparisons with Mammootty‘s ‘Kaathal – The Core’, directed by Jeo Baby, which placed a same-sex relationship at the centre of…
NEW DELHI: Tajinderpal Singh Toor’s bid for a historic hat-trick of Asian Games gold medals ended with a silver on Saturday as the defending champion finished second in the men’s shot put at Aichi-Nagoya.Toor, who won gold at the 2018 Jakarta and 2022 Hangzhou Games, produced a best throw of 20.64m to claim his third…
A serviceman of the 15th ‘Kara-Dag’ Brigade of the Operational Assignment of the National Guard of Ukraine prepares to fire a Grad-P Partizan rocket launcher towards Russian troops, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, at a position near the frontline town of Dobropillia, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on September 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters…
CHENNAI: DMK president M K Stalin on Saturday criticised the TVK govt in Tamil Nadu for the “widespread power outages” in the state.In a post on X, the former chief minister wondered what the condition of ordinary citizens could be when even the state ministers were subject to frequent power disruptions during their programmes. To…
NEM contributes nearly half of Tamil Nadu’s annual rainfall. COIMBATORE: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has forecast near-normal rainfall in the northeast monsoon (NEM) season — from October to December end — in the state, at a 60% probability level. It has said the state is likely to receive about 468 mm of NEM rainfall,…
Sunil Grover’s uncanny Ajay Devgn mimicry steals the show ahead of ‘Drishyam 3’ release; fans say, ‘Mimicry sounds more original than original himself’ The team of ‘Drishyam 3’, featuring Ajay Devgn, Shriya Saran, Ishita Dutta, Mrunal Jadhav, Jaideep Ahlawat and director Abhishek Pathak, is set to appear on ‘The Great Indian Kapil Show’ season 5…
Yashasvi Jaiswal (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak has backed Yashasvi Jaiswal to continue working hard and wait for his opportunities, insisting that the young opener’s limited chances in the ODI format should not be viewed as “unfair” treatment.Jaiswal played all three ODIs against Afghanistan at home but was left out of…