Chennai: TVK govt will overhaul previous DMK govt’s mini-stadium project for all 234 Assembly constituencies, raising the likely cost of each facility from ₹3 crore to ₹8 crore-₹12 crore, minister Aadhav Arjuna told the Assembly on Tuesday.The revised model will retain the locations already identified and will be funded by the state govt. If implemented…
New Delhi: Another positive dope test has hit India’s preparations for the upcoming Asian Games, with wushu medal hopeful Surya Bhanupratap Singh becoming the latest athlete to be provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).The 30-year-old from Jammu & Kashmir, a 2018 Jakarta Asian Games bronze medallist in the men’s 60kg Sanda, failed an…
Chennai: PWD minister Aadhav Arjuna on Tuesday said political equations in India would change after the 2029 elections, paving the way for abolition of NEET in parliament.Speaking in the assembly on the ninth death anniversary of Ariyalur student S Anitha, who died by suicide in 2017 due to NEET failure, Aadhav said Union govt had…
NEW DELHI: The English vocabulary sometimes feels the loss for words while describing what Viswanathan Anand is to India and its chess legacy. There is a particular kind of stillness that follows the Chennai-born Grandmaster into a room, the stillness of a man who solved most of what chess could throw at him decades ago…
Chennai: Hundred days after the TVK govt took office, the municipal administration and water supply (MAWS) department floated more than 1,000 tenders for several low and high-value civic works across the 25 corporations and municipalities. The tenders are seeing competitive bidding, saving upto 30% of project costs to the exchequer.TOI analysed about 10 random tenders…
PM Modi gifting Javokhir Sindarov’s World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek Prez Prime Minister Narendra Modi used chess as a unique diplomatic gesture during his visit to Uzbekistan, gifting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev the original handwritten scoresheet from Uzbek Grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov’s 2025 FIDE World Cup final victory in Goa.The scoresheet was presented in a leatherette cover…
Ban on mobile phones at temples in Tamil Nadu come into effect, Rs 5 deposit fee at designated entrance counters. After the mobile phone ban, a scene of phones being deposited at the Vadapalani Murugan Temple in Chennai came into effect from today. Chennai: The restriction on carrying mobile phones with cameras into 52 major…
Coco Gauff, of the United States, hits a return to Zeynep Sonmez, of Turkey, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Coco Gauff began her US Open campaign with a straight-set win, but her opening match was far from effortless. The…
Chennai: Pothole-riddled roads, dug-up stretches, and low-hanging electric cables have been plaguing the residents of Puducherry Pattai Road on OMR’s Semmenchery for the last one and a half years, as civic work in the area has moved at a snail’s pace.With more than 500 houses, including apartments, PG accommodations, and small-scale industrial units, the stretch…
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu govt will sell onions at ₹35 per kg through 8,739 ration shops in urban areas from Sept 3 to check soaring prices, food minister P Venkataramanan said in the assembly on Tuesday.The scheme will cover around 80 lakh family cardholders in the first phase, with each family entitled to one kg…
