Chennai: Thousands of India’s most critically needed super-specialists are waiting for a Supreme Court hearing on May 29 that could break a months-long deadlock over NEET SS 2025 — while the hospitals that urgently need them grow increasingly short-staffed.The crisis has been building since April, when the Centre’s Medical Counselling Committee froze round 2 admissions…
Chennai: After years of poor campus placements for core engineering branches, mechanical engineering and electrical and electronics engineering (EEE) witnessed a revival in demand in the 2025-26 academic year. Top colleges, including College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Rajalakshmi Engineering College (REC) and RMK Engineering College, have placed nearly all their…
Puja Tomar will take on Shi Ming in the special main event on Day 1 of Road to UFC in Macau (Photo: UFC India/Instagram) In October 2023, the UFC signed its first Indian woman fighter, Pooja Tomar. In June 2024, she won on her UFC debut. In 2025, she endured her first loss inside the…
Chennai: Tambaram Cyber Crime Police arrested a call centre employee from Bengaluru for posing as a middleman on OLX and attempting to dupe two IT professionals — one trying to sell a car, and the other who wanted to buy it.The accused, identified as Rajesh, was nabbed after Sathish, 32, filed a complaint in Dec…
Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan (AP Photo) Paris: There were seats for the taking on the show courts — Philippe-Chatrier, Suzanne-Lenglen and Simone-Mathieu — but not a patch of shade across the 34 acres of Roland Garros lay unoccupied on Wednesday, another 30-plus Celsius day at the French Open amid an unprecedented heat wave.Around the grounds,…
Chennai: An elderly couple suffered severe burn injuries after a domestic LPG gas cylinder caught fire inside their house in Pulianthope on Tuesday night.The victims — Devaraj, 74, a retired Chennai Corporation sanitary worker, and his wife Muniyammal, 70, a domestic helper — were admitted to KMC Hospital for treatment.Police said the couple lived alone…
Rajasthan Royals stormed into Qualifier 2 of IPL 2026 after beating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 47 runs in the Eliminator on Wednesday. The night belonged to 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, whose 97 off just 29 balls put RR in complete control of the contest. Chasing a place in Qualifier 2, Rajasthan Royals first piled up 243 for…
CHENNAI: “None can deny that there is corruption in the judiciary. There were and are corrupt judges,” said Madras high court, adding: “Judges need not be treated as holy cows.” Corruption within the judiciary could not be denied, said a vacation bench and referred to past public remarks by former Chief Justice of India S…
Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo) Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continues to rewrite IPL history with astonishing ease, and his breathtaking 97 off just 29 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2026 Eliminator has now become one of the most destructive innings the tournament has ever witnessed. The Rajasthan Royals opener recorded the second-highest strike rate…
In Tenkasi, protestors take a stand… and a bath How do you protest a ban on bathing? How about with a bath?Traders and communist parties in Tenkasi on Wednesday staged a symbolic bath outside the collectorate – pouring water from bottles over themselves – to protest restrictions on night bathing at Old Courtallam Falls and…