India’s Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh after winning silver medals. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India added seven more medals to its Asian Games 2026 tally on Sunday, but the haul was not enough to keep the country inside the top 10 of the medal standings.India ended Day 8 with 37 medals — four gold, 16…
India secure medals at Chess Olympiad (Photos by FIDE) NEW DELHI: Chess came to the Baskar household not through Savitha Shri but through her older brother, Mugesh, whom their father had originally set out to build a chess career around. Savitha’s own interest came from watching him play.By the time both children were training under…
Chennai: The 24,264 sanitation workers, who had been getting free breakfast since last year, will henceforth get cash allowance instead of breakfast, TN govt has announced. The workers will now get ₹50 each for each working day. A Sept 21 notification allocated ₹44.28 crore to be disbursed as cash allowance to 24,264 workers. According to…
India’s Ancy Sojan Edappilly during the women’s long jump final. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: Ancy Sojan came agonisingly close to giving India its first athletics gold at the Asian Games 2026, but had to settle for silver after China’s Yingying Huang produced a decisive final jump in the women’s long jump in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on…
Six men were arrested with swords in two separate police actions in Madurai in the past two days. Chennai: Three young women were arrested after a video went viral showing them vandalising traffic barricades on 100-Feet Road in Thirumangalam. The video showed them riding a bike without helmets, too. A person travelling behind them had…
NEW DELHI: India’s Harita Bhadra secured a hard-fought bronze medal in the women’s 200m at the Asian Games 2026 on Sunday, edging Japan’s Abigeirufuka Ido in a thrilling photo-finish.Harita clocked 23.20 seconds to finish third, just 0.01 seconds ahead of Ido, who was timed at 23.21s. Indonesia’s Shanti Pereira won the gold in 22.78s, while…
Descriptive-type questions to be dropped in future exams Chennai: Following several litigations against the recruitment exam and complaints over marking in the descriptive-type questions, the higher education department is planning to reform the assistant professors’ recruitment exam to make the recruitment process faster and smoother. In the future exams, the descriptive-type questions are likely to…
Ankush Panghal and Parveen Hooda (IANS/PTI Photos) NEW DELHI: India’s boxing campaign at the Asian Games 2026 received a major boost on Sunday as Ankush Panghal and Parveen Hooda stormed into the semifinals of their respective weight categories, assuring the country of two medals.Ankush became the first Indian boxer to secure a medal at the…
Chennai: A 19-year-old man was arrested for riding a two-wheeler at high speed and performing wheeling near the mall on Poonamallee High Road in Aminjikarai and posting videos of the stunts on social media, police said.Oon the night of Sept 23, Sam Daniel, son of Arockiasamy, rode a two-wheeler in a negligent manner and performed…
Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh NEW DELHI: India’s wait for a squash singles gold at the Asian Games continued on Sunday as both Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh lost their respective finals to Malaysian opponents, leaving the country with two silver medals from the individual events.World No. 5 Sivasangari Subramaniam defeated 18-year-old Anahat 11-4, 11-4,…