Asian Games 2026 Day 13 Live Updates: India’s campaign at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, continues on Friday, October 2, with Indian athletes competing across several disciplines and multiple medal events on the schedule. The recurve archers will be in action in their respective team semifinals. Dhiraj Bommadevara will be one of the…
Chennai: Water resources department (WRD) has begun a ₹7-crore project to restore the 120-acre Pallavaram Periya Eri, which has been choked by water hyacinth and affected by sewage and encroachments.Workers have started clearing the hyacinth. The project also includes desilting the lake, strengthening and reshaping its bunds, and improving its inlet and outlet channels to…
India’s Kumkum Anil Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti celebrate after winning the gold medal (REUTERS) India’s women’s recurve archery team created history on Friday, defeating world champions South Korea 5-3 to claim its maiden Asian Games gold medal.Ankita Bhakat, Kirti Sharma and Kumkum Mohod held their nerve in windy conditions to overcome the 10-time Olympic…
Chennai: IIT Madras and Human Welfare Association (HWA) have launched an initiative to empower artisans and producer communities through technology-enabled authentication and traceability of Geographical Indication (GI)-tagged products.The institutions will develop practical solutions for digital authentication, product traceability, documentation and tech-based interventions. The initiative aims to help artisans establish the authenticity and origin of their…
The challenges for Swayams started even before the tournament. Getting the team to that stage was a project in itself, with busy, overlapping schedules making it difficult for the players to train together in person. NEW DELHI: Across the open and women’s sections at the Chess Olympiad, only one player won an individual gold medal…
CHENNAI: Following directions from the Election Commission of India, Tamil Nadu chief electoral officer Archana Patnaik has ordered a special drive across all districts to enrol left-out and eligible young or first-time voters under the continuous updation process.The commission clarified that the declaration form attached to Form 6 is applicable only during the SIR phase….
Aravind Suresh, managing partner at Mudhal VC Chennai: Mudhal VC, a family office and a Y Combinator-style startup program, plans to invest in more than 20 startups in the next three years with five deals expected to close in the near term. It is the family office of Suresh Sambandam, founder and chief executive of…
India’s Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru celebrates winning his Men’s Compound Individual bronze medal match. (Reuters Photo) NEW DELHI: India added another medal to their Asian Games 2026 tally on Thursday as Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru secured bronze in the men’s individual compound archery event at Aichi-Nagoya.Ganesh produced a dominant performance in the bronze-medal match, defeating…
The sales surge in Sept was broad-based, with both electric two-wheelers (E2Ws) and passenger vehicles posting new monthly records Chennai: September turned out to be a record month for electric vehicles, with total registrations across segments touching an all-time high of 3.3 lakh units. The final number is likely to be slightly higher as there…
India’s Jasprit Bumrah celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Sineth Jayawardena. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India produced a dominant all-round performance to crush Sri Lanka by 124 runs in the second men’s cricket semifinal of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday, setting up a mouth-watering gold-medal clash against arch-rivals Pakistan…