Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s prohibition and excise minister K Vignesh, announced a sweeping overhaul of wages for contract workers at Tasmac liquor shops on Monday — nearly doubling their pay, offering festival advances, uniform allowances and a fixed weekly day off — while warning to fire employees who continue overcharging customers.The revision, unveiled in the state…
Chennai: State govt will distribute single-spread (four-muzham) veshtis and zari saris through ration shops for Pongal 2027, instead of the double-fold veshtis distributed under the scheme for the past 12 years, handlooms minister Vijay Balaji told the assembly on Monday.Responding to a calling attention motion moved by DMK’s Austin and KMDK’s K Nithiyanandhan on the…
Piers Morgan reignites the Messi-Ronaldo GOAT debate, claiming Messi’s retirement proves Ronaldo is football’s greatest. Lionel Messi’s decision to retire from international football has given Piers Morgan another opportunity to make his feelings about the greatest player debate unmistakably clear.The Argentine icon announced on Monday that he would no longer represent his country, bringing an…
K Rathnam, CEO of Milky Mist Dairy Food Chennai: Paneer remains the biggest growth engine for Milky Mist, which recently got listed, with the shift from loose, unbranded products to packaged offerings creating significant headroom for the Erode-based dairy company as it enters a Rs 1,000-crore-plus quarterly revenue trajectory.The opportunity could widen as food-safety authorities…
“Muchas gracias HOMBRE IMPOSIBLE…” Argentina President lauds Messi as the famous footballer announces retirement Lionel Messi’s decision to end his international career has prompted an emotional reaction across Argentina, with President Javier Milei among those paying tribute to the captain who delivered some of the greatest moments in the country’s football history.Messi announced on Monday…
Chennai: A total of 19 cobra hatchlings were rescued from beneath the concrete flooring of a house in Egmore by the forest department on Sunday.According to officials, a resident spotted eggs in the backyard and alerted the forest department. Anti-poaching guards from the Guindy forest range reached the house and identified them as cobra eggs….
R Praggnanandhaa and Viswanathan Anand NEW DELHI: You remember the photo that made rounds on social media last April, just after Vaishali Rameshbabu, Praggnanandhaa’s elder sister, had landed at the Chennai airport with the Women’s Candidates medal wrapped around her neck. It was a photo of her family.Praggnanandhaa was there too, his facial gesture mirroring…
Chennai: A man who opened actor Varun’s car using a duplicate key and stole diamond and gold jewellery, a laptop and a wristwatch last month, was arrested by Mylapore police on Sunday.Police said Varun visited Mylapore last month to attend a wedding and parked his car on the roadside. After the event, he found his…
NEW DELHI: Mariano Navone walked into Arthur Ashe Stadium as the lesser-known name, a 25-year-old Argentine facing one of the biggest names tennis has ever produced. He walked out with the biggest victory of his career; and, perhaps most remarkably, having beaten the player he once watched and idolised.Navone stunned Novak Djokovic in the first…
Tagore, Chakravarthy meet CM Chennai: A day after Tamil Nadu tourism minister R Rajesh Kumar warned that Congress would pull its two ministers out of the state cabinet if TVK failed to accept Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate for the 2029 Lok Sabha election, the ruling party chose not to respond publicly. Meanwhile,…
