Nihal Sarin playing for American Gambits (GCL Photo) BENGALURU: The Chess Olympiad is already on Indian Grandmaster Nihal Sarin’s mind, but not quite yet. With India preparing to defend its Open title in Samarkand, Uzbekistan later this month, Nihal is excited about representing the country at the Olympiad. For now, though, the 22-year-old is keeping…
Vijay started his speech around 9.33am, listing out measures taken by his govt to maintain law and order and ensure corruption-free governance. CHENNAI: In his fiercest attack yet on DMK, Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay brought up the half-century-old Sarkaria Commission report and a 2025 Enforcement Directorate letter in the assembly on Monday,…
France’s Kylian Mbappe (10) walks off the pitch during the World Cup third-place playoff soccer match between France and England in Miami Gardens, Fla., Saturday, July 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Kylian Mbappé has made it clear he has no intention of playing down his chances of winning the Ballon d’Or.The Real Madrid striker believes…
Says support to TVK on ideological grounds Chennai: A day after alleging that ‘crores of rupees and ministerial berths’ were offered to them seeking support, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) MLA Syed Farooq Basha said his remarks were distorted.Farooq Basha said in the assembly that his remarks made at an IUML meeting at Tiruvannamalai on…
21-year-old Keyaa Banerji (Image Source: X) NEW DELHI: Indian powerlifter Keyaa Kunal Banerji had every reason to expect attention after producing one of the standout performances of her young career. Instead, the 21-year-old found herself confronting an uncomfortable side of online fame after her 140kg deadlift and World Championship silver medal went viral.Banerji’s breakthrough came…
Chennai: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Monday tabled a bill to amend the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951, proposing to enhance the monthly vehicle allowance for MLAs from ₹25,000 to ₹75,000 and provide a monthly personal assistant (PA) allowance of ₹25,000.The amendment follows CM’s recent announcement to provide a vehicle to every…
America’s Levon Aronian and Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi BENGALURU: For most of the 20th century, the Chess Olympiad was one of the few arenas where the Cold War actually played out on a board. The Soviet Union treated the biennial team event as a matter of state prestige, fielding lineups stacked with world champions and winning…
“Earlier this was due to the Chennai Metro Rail work between Porur junction and Vadapalani. But now the work is nearly done and most of the girders are in place. Yet there was traffic on Sunday,” said S K Govindaraj, a resident of Saligramam. Chennai: Bumpy roads riddled with potholes, illegal parking and wrong-side driving…
Roger Federer receives his Hall of Fame ring at the U.S. Open. (AP Photo) Roger Federer’s career was built on numbers that seem almost impossible to comprehend.Twenty Grand Slam titles. One hundred and three tour-level trophies. Three hundred and ten weeks as the world No. 1, including 237 consecutive weeks at the top. Five successive…
Chennai: Sundaram Home Finance plans to double its assets under management (AUM) in Tamil Nadu’s Emerging Business (EB) segment to around Rs 1,300 crore by the end of this fiscal, from over Rs 650 crore in FY26.The company plans to add more than 10 EB branches in Tier-3 and Tier-4 towns across the state to…
