Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag (Image credit: X) India’s Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag won the silver medal in the women’s compound doubles event at the Asian Para Games on Wednesday.The 19-year-old Indian pair lost 141-150 to China’s Xu Xueqing and Zhao Jing in the final.Sheetal and Payal were unable to keep up with their…
Chennai: Metrowater desilted 9.6km of sewer lines and 433 manholes using 218 machines across 227 streets in Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) limits on Monday. Metrowater monitors sewage pumping levels round-the-clock through an IoT-based system. After rainfall, if pumping levels drop, officials identify the affected stretch and deploy workers to clear blocks. It has deployed 29…
India’s medal campaign will continue in the afternoon, with several finals scheduled across athletics and swimming. Vaishnavi Jagtap will compete in the women’s 100m freestyle S8 final at 1:30 pm, the same time Sukhchain is scheduled for the men’s javelin throw F55 final. Karamjyoti will take part in the women’s discus throw F55 final at…
Geopolitics, national security, import substitution and supply-chain resilience are bringing greater strategic importance to businesses with tangible assets and domestic manufacturing capabilities Chennai: Despite geopolitical and global disruptions, India’s private equity and venture capital (PE-VC) continues to rise. It is expected to exceed last year’s levels of $39 billion, signalling a consecutive YoY revival. International…
NEW DELHI: India continued to swell their medal tally at the Asian Para Games 2026 as Pranav Soorma and Ram Ratan Singh secured a memorable one-two finish in the men’s discus throw combined F51/52/53 event on Tuesday, with Soorma setting a new Asian record to clinch gold.The 32-year-old Soorma produced a best throw of 11.66m…
Chennai: Chowgule Steamships Ltd (CSL) promoter-group minority shareholder Sheela Yeshwantrao Chowgule has filed complaints with SEBI, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), the Registrar of Companies (RoC) and the Income Tax department, alleging governance lapses, undisclosed related-party transactions and irregular approvals, according to copies of the complaints.At the centre of the controversy is CSL’s wholly…
Ravi Baby Sahana and Prachi Pandey NEW DELHI: India scripted their best-ever performance in para table tennis at the Asian Para Games, securing five bronze medals in Aichi-Nagoya on Tuesday, with Ravi Baby Sahana and Prachi Pandey creating history by becoming the country’s first players to win medals in the standing category at the continental…
Chennai: After three days of intense search, police have traced the eight-year-old girl, who went missing from Karumangazhani village near Sriperumbudur, to a children’s home at Kellys. Police said she left her grandparents’ home at Karumangazhani in Sriperumbudur to meet her mother in Jharkhand.Besty is the daughter of Viswanath and Kalpana, natives of Jharkhand. She…
GAMES OF MY LIFE BY ALEX FERGUSON The Golden Era of TV was littered with peak moments when one suddenly just knew that the series one was watching would remain embedded in posterity forever: when Walter “Heisenberg” White says: “Say my name”, or when Don Draper, while holding forth on nostalgia, tells a bunch of…
She cheated 12 cargo vehicle drivers and their families of ₹23 lakh by promising permanent jobs at the airport and its cargo complex Chennai: A former Airports Authority of India (AAI) official was arrested by Chennai airport police for cheating 12 cargo vehicle drivers and their families of ₹23 lakh by promising permanent jobs at…