Uruguay team (Pic credit: Selección Uruguaya) NEW DELHI: India’s historic football date with Uruguay has gained even more star power, with two-time world champions Uruguay naming a 46-player preliminary list featuring some of the biggest names in world football for their September-October FIFA international window.Federico Valverde, Darwin Núñez, Ronald Araújo, José María Giménez, Rodrigo Bentancur…

Chennai: With the northeast monsoon weeks away, Tambaram Corporation has stepped up dengue prevention measures, deploying around 700 mosquito breeding control workers across its 70 wards to identify and eliminate breeding sites before the rains intensify.According to corporation officials, workers inspected more than 1.2 lakh houses over the past week and destroyed over 4,500 potential…

Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz NEW YORK CITY: Aryna Sabalenka was distracted by the smell of cannabis wafting through Louis Armstrong Stadium midway through the opening set of her US Open third-round match against Kamilla Rakhimova. The world No. 1 turned to chair umpire Eva Asderaki-Moore to raise the issue.“Someone is smoking weed,” she said,…

Chennai: After two days of stalemate, the contract staffers of the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Ltd (Tasmac) returned to duty and opened liquor retail outlets on Saturday, but prohibition and excise minister K Vignesh has warned of action as per rules for protest.Salesmen and supervisors closed 200 liquor shops in Kancheepuram and Chengalpet districts…