D Gukesh and Koneru Humpy (FIDE Photos) NEW DELHI: The decision hour is upon us. The countdown has begun. The winners of both the open and women’s sections of the 46th Chess Olympiad will be decided later today. Do India have a chance to retain their gold medals? Certainly, perhaps more so for the open…
Child abuse- child assault- rape- pocso case Chennai: A 52-year-old govt school principal was arrested under the Pocso Act for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old Class VI student at a govt school near Thiruporur on Sept 19. He was remanded in judicial custody and later suspended by school education department.The girl had previously studied at the…
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…
Asian Games 2026 Day 8 Live Updates: India’s campaign at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, continues on Sunday, September 27, with athletes competing across several sports and disciplines. There will be several medal events involving Indian athletes. Manju Rani and Priyanka Goswami will compete in the women’s marathon race walk, while Harjinder Kaur…
Chennai: A total of 54 pilots from the defence forces graduated from the Flying Instructors’ School (FIS) at Air Force Station Tambaram on Saturday. Air Marshal George Thomas, Air Officer Commanding- in-Chief, Western Air Command, was the Reviewing Officer (RO) for the event.The pilots belonged to the No: 161 batch Qualified Flying Instructors’ Course (QFIC)….
Indian athlete Jay Meena, winner of the Bronze Medal in soft tennis at the Asian Games 2026, arrives at the IGI Airport, in New Delhi on Thursday. (ANI Photo/Neeraj) NEW DELHI: Weeks before the 2026 Asian Games, Jay Meena was bedridden with typhoid and a severe infection, losing eight kilograms in the process. Sent home…
13th century sluice inscription found in Medavakkam Chennai: During the desilting of Medavakkam tank, volunteers stumbled upon a rare 13th-century Chola-era inscription. Experts say the inscription details the construction of a sluice in the ancient Monavakkam lake by the Telugu Chola king Sri Vijaya Kanda Gopalan.“The sluice was built by a merchant in 1268 CE,…