Vans were carrying 20 students Chennai: Ten school students were injured after two school vans collided near Mappedu in Tiruvallur district on Wednesday morning. In a separate accident, 28 people escaped unhurt after an omni bus crashed into a tree near Mamandur in Chengalpet district.In the first incident, two vans carrying about 20 students from…
Chennai: Madras high court on Wednesday quashed the detention order passed under the Goondas Act against Uma Shankar, who was arrested for allegedly illegally releasing Tamil movie Jana Nayagan, starring Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay.A division bench of Justice N Sathish Kumar and Justice K Rajasekar passed the order on a plea moved…
Anahat Singh’s first reaction after winning the World Junior Squash Championship was not about what the title might do to her profile.This was her last year in the junior circuit, and after years of playing squash, she finally had the title she wanted before moving fully into senior competition.“I think it’s a good way to…
Chennai: AI large language models have largely become commoditised, and the value now lies in companies building systems that combine AI with structured enterprise data, privacy safeguards and regulatory guardrails, said Sridhar Vembu, chief scientist and co-founder of Zoho.Speaking to TOI at Zoholics, the company’s annual conference on Wednesday, he said AI inferencing is expected…
The other side of America’s only grandmaster Irina Krush NEW DELHI: For most of its history, American women’s chess had a very simple relationship with the Olympiad podium. It did not have one. Not once, in over four decades of trying, had the United States women’s team finished among the medals at chess’s biennial team…
Chennai: An ill-planned experiment by the Greater Chennai Traffic Police (GCTP) which closed three U-turns to regulate vehicular movement near Perungudi on Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), backfired on Wednesday, causing severe congestion for nearly three hours and forcing police to withdraw the changes within hours. The restrictions, announced on GCTP’s social media page only on…
Jay Meena assures India’s first-ever soft tennis medal at Asian Games 2026 Jay Meena’s journey to India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in soft tennis began not with a racket in his hand, but with an interest in cricket.The 14-year-old who once dreamed of becoming a cricketer has now become a history-maker, securing a bronze medal…
Chennai: Birders in Chennai have a new reason to celebrate this season, as a pair of Terek sandpipers has arrived at the Pallikaranai marshland (PML). This is a first for the marshland. The sighting pushes the wetland’s documented bird tally to 205 species, up from 204.G Gowthaman, who monitors birds at the marshland, said every…
India’s Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Bhavtegh Singh Gill and Mairaj Ahmad Khan with coach Amrinder Singh Cheema (PTI Photo) India’s men’s skeet team of Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmed Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill secured the bronze medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 on Wednesday after prevailing over Kazakhstan in a shoot-off.The Indian trio finished…
Chennai: A youth who was caught stealing a battery from a motorcycle near the Chengalpet New Bus Stand was beaten by members of the public and tied to an electric pole before being handed over to the police on Tuesday night.Police identified the youth as Sujith, a native of Kanyakumari district.Shanmuganathan, a resident of Gokulapuram…