According to police, the man gave Varshini Rs 5 lakh after she promised to produce the short film. CHENNAI: Police arrested actress Varshini Venkat, who participated in a TV reality show, for allegedly cheating a man of Rs 5 lakh by promising to produce a short film.According to police, the man gave Varshini Rs 5…
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…
After two weeks of underwater exploration at Poompuhar, more than 200 artefacts were discovered, indicating ancient trade connections CHENNAI: Poompuhar, the 2,000-year-old port city built by the early Cholas and lost to tsunamis, continues to throw up evidence of its glorious past.After two weeks of underwater exploration, a Tamil Nadu archaeology department team has come…
Raiza Dhillon of India (AP) India secured a bronze medal in the women’s skeet team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, with Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan combining for a total of 331 points.Raiza and Parinaaz both shot 111 out of 125, while Maheshwari contributed 109 to the team’s overall tally.China took the…
Chennai: Southern Railway will operate five weekly Express Special trains between Chennai and Kollam in Oct to clear the additional passenger rush during Gandhi Jayanthi and the Pooja festival season.The Chennai Egmore–Kollam Weekly Express Special (06117) will depart Chennai Egmore at 11.40pm on Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 and reach Kollam at 4.20pm…
India’s players hold the national flag after winning in the women’s final T20I cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in the ongoing Asian Games 2026, in Nagoya, Japan. (PTI photo) Nagoya: On the sidelines of the cricket facility at Korogi Athletic Park, a few Sri Lankan men sat watching the India-Sri Lanka women’s final….
Chennai: A 29-year-old man was arrested for sexually harassing a 65-year-old woman who was sleeping on the pavement in Ashok Nagar on Monday night.The woman, a widow who earns her living by stitching footwear, usually sleeps on the pavement. On Monday night, while she was asleep, Anand, a resident of T Nagar, approached her on…
Roshibina Devi assures third successive Asian Games medal New Delhi: She wasn’t supposed to be in Aich-Nagoya. Not at the Asian Games. Not at her third successive continental event. And certainly not one win away from a place in the women’s 60kg sanda final.Naorem Roshibina Devi had lost fairly in the selection trials for the…
Chennai: Security personnel found frisking school children and their schoolbag ahead of chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s breakfast scheme programme at the city school on Tuesday was flayed by child rights activists and organisations.Students were stopped at the entrance and their bags were checked before they were let in.“A school is a space for children,…
William Xu, VP, Huntkey, along with Mukesh Gupta and Shalini Pandey, directors of Plumage Solutions Chennai: Plumage Solutions has formed a technical collaboration with Shenzhen-based Huntkey Electric, China, to localise, manufacture, and commercialise power products in India. The collaboration will focus on making power adapters, supplies, chargers and other power conversion and charging products, particularly…