Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal celebrates after scoring his side’s second goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Barcelona and Rayo Vallecano in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort) Lamine Yamal has made Ballon d’Or history after becoming the first player ever to receive three nominations for the prestigious award before turning…
Calls for standardised list TNNChennai: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging Union govt to scrap the “open column” method for recording caste details in the upcoming Census and instead provide a pre-loaded, standardised list of officially notified castes.The resolution has been passed days after former chief minister M K Stalin demanded…
George Kamurasi (X Photo) What began as a troubled teenage life, followed by a second chance through football, has now taken George Desmond Kamurasi to a destination few could have imagined — the throne of Uganda’s historic Tooro Kingdom.At 36, Kamurasi is still better known around south-east London as “Big G”, the towering goalkeeper and…
CHENNAI: AIADMK deputy general secretary K P Munusamy met state BJP leader Nainar Nagenthran at the BJP headquarters here on Tuesday night to hand over a letter from party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, seeking the party’s support for the upcoming bypolls in the Madurantakam and Dharapuram constituencies scheduled for Oct 6.The two constituencies are…
Mirra Andreeva, of Russia, left, helps Anastasia Potapova, of Austria. (AP Photo) NEW YORK CITY: Anastasia Potapova clutched her knee and crumpled to the court in the closing stages of a gruelling US Open fourth-round clash. After two hours and 25 minutes of pushing each other to their limits, the moment the 25-year-old went down,…
Chennai: Retired judge Justice B Gokuldas commission constituted by the previous DMK govt, has held police, prohibition enforcement and revenue officials responsible for the June 2024 Kallakurichi hooch tragedy, which claimed 70 lives and left 161 people with partial or permanent disabilities.The 478-page report, tabled in the Assembly on Tuesday, alleged “wilful negligence”, “utter dereliction…
Abhimanyu Mishra vs Leon Luke Mendonca (Screengrab) BENGALURU: It was a dramatic start to Day 4 at the 2026 Global Chess League as the Ganges Grandmasters secured a 12-8 victory over the Alaskan Knights in a match defined by heartbreak, clock chaos, and a costly procedural blunder on the prodigy board.With the Alaskan Knights fighting…
Expenditure control, however, is more important — and more challenging — given the large number of electoral promises in the pipeline K Shanmugam and K R ShanmugamThe TVK-led govt in Tamil Nadu has inherited a financial position from the previous regime that can best be described as unsteady. The implementation of a plethora of cash-disbursement…
The race for the 2026 Ballon d’Or has officially begun, with defending champion Ousmane Dembélé, Kylian Mbappé, Harry Kane, Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal among the biggest names included in the 30-player men’s shortlist announced by France Football on Tuesday.The women’s shortlist also features a host of major contenders, with two-time winner Alexia Putellas, Ewa…
Chennai: That morning cup of coffee could soon leave behind more than a caffeine buzz — its discarded husk could get a second life in your wardrobe. Scientists at CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai, have developed a leather-like material from coffee husk, the agricultural residue left after coffee processing. It was then used to…
