Chennai: A 94-year-old woman died after she was assaulted by her grandson in an inebriated state at a village near Kalpakkam in Chengalpet district.The deceased was identified as P Saroja, of Poonthandalam village near Vengappakkam. She was living with her son Munusamy and his family.According to police, the incident occurred when Saroja was resting on…
Cristiano Ronaldo wastes easy opportunities (Screengrab) Portugal wrapped up their FIFA World Cup preparations with a 2-1 victory over Nigeria in a friendly match, but it was not a perfect evening for Cristiano Ronaldo.The veteran forward had several good chances to score but failed to find the net. Ronaldo, who holds the men’s record for…
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NEW DELHI: Argentina’s preparations for the FIFA World Cup 2026 were overshadowed by a reported security lapse that exposed the passport details of every player in the squad, including captain Lionel Messi.According to Reuters, the passport numbers appeared on an official team sheet that was distributed ahead of Argentina’s friendly against Iceland in Alabama. The…
Chennai: Amidst apprehensions over the quantum of fund Tamil Nadu will be receiving under VBG RAMG, the Union govt has allocated Rs 7585 crore to the state, which was only Rs 120 crore lesser than last year.Union rural development minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that this interim allocation was made to ensure that the states…
The 2026 FIFA World Cup (Getty Images) The FIFA World Cup 2026 will be the largest tournament in football history, featuring 48 teams, 104 matches and three host nations. It will also be the most lucrative. FIFA has approved a record financial package worth $871 million for the tournament in the United States, Canada and…
Bharathiraja with Revathy Chennai: “Bring anyone from the street, and I can make her a heroine,” Bharathiraja is known to have said. It may have sounded like arrogance. Not to those who knew him.When Tamil cinema was obsessed with glamour and established faces in the late 1970s, Bharathiraja scoured the land for ‘ordinary women’, whom…
Chennai: Vietnamese EV maker VinFast has proposed a Rs 7,000-crore Phase II expansion at its Tuticorin manufacturing complex, widening its production portfolio beyond passenger cars to include electric scooters and buses. The expansion would significantly increase the scale of operations at the factory located in the southern Tamil Nadu port city and is expected to…
Still from ‘Red Rose’, a remake of ‘Sigappu Rojakkal’ For most filmmakers, success in Tamil cinema is enough. For Bharathiraja, Bollywood represented a new frontier.In 1979, just two years after ‘16 Vayathinile’, Bharathiraja crossed the Vindhyas. ‘Solva Sawan’ (meaning ‘Sixteenth Spring’) was his Hindi romantic drama starring Amol Palekar and Sridevi. It marked 15-year-old Sridevi’s…
Madurai: Allinagaram was cloaked in silence on Wednesday as the news of Bharathiraja’s death crept through a street leading to his ancestral home. Elderly men who had witnessed him leave for Madras as a young dreamer recalled the years when he was still known as Paalpandi, and not Bharathiraja. The villagers weren’t mourning a renowned…