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MUMBAI: As a clip of actress Rashmika Mandanna's mother allegedly making allegations against her former fiancé, Rakshit Shetty has gone viral, the 'Dear Comrade' actress has decided to break her silence on the matter, calling it a serious invasion of privacy. Urging the netizens to stop spreading the content, the 'Animal' actress dropped a detailed note on her Instagram Stories explaining that the audio being circulated on social media appears to be from a private conversation that took place n ...Read More >
DUBAI: An Indian national was killed on Monday when an explosive-laden unmanned boat struck an oil tanker off the coast of Muscat Governorate, according to reports. "The Maritime Security Centre reported that the oil tanker MKD VYOM was attacked by an unmanned boat 52 nautical miles off the coast of Muscat Governorate," Oman's Ministry of Defence said in a statement. It said that the attack resulted in a fire and explosion in the engine room and the death of one crew member. The remaining 21 c ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The rupee saw a steep loss of 42 paise to settle at 91.50 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday after US and Israeli attacks on Iran intensified worldwide risk aversion, setting crude oil prices on fire and demand for the American currency soaring. Massive selling in domestic equity markets and withdrawal of foreign funds further dragged the Indian currency down, forex traders said. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 91.23 and touched the intraday low of 91. ...Read More >
CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday announced the third list of the party's election promises, accusing the DMK government of presiding over a sharp rise in the prices of essential commodities and increasing multiple taxes over the past five years, which, he said, has worsened household finances. Unveiling the proposals, Palaniswami said an AIADMK government would provide a one-time assistance of Rs 10,000 to every family as a compassion grant to ease the burden ...Read More >
CHENNAI: After finally deciding to launch her own party, former AIADMK interim general secretary and close aide of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, VK Sasikala, hit out at the Leader of the Opposition Edappadi Palaniswami, saying that she made him the Chief Minister, only to be betrayed. Sasikala finally broke her dilemma and announced the decision launch a new political party, stating that the party's name would be revealed later. She alleged that there were conspiracies to move her from Ka ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: A portion of the frontal section of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira's house in Bholath, Kapurthala, was demolished on Monday by the office of the Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO). Khaira, a strong critic of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, condemned the move, calling it the dangerous introduction of "bulldozer (Pila-Panja) politics" in Punjab by Mann under directions from AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, aimed at silencing criticism and democratic dissent. As the de ...Read More >
UDAIPUR: Actors Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna reached Udaipur on Monday ahead of their wedding scheduled later this week. The couple is set to tie the knot on February 26 at a hotel on the outskirts of the city of lakes. According to sources, pre-wedding functions are likely to be organised over two days before the main ceremony. Both actors reached Udaipur on separate flights on Monday and left for the hotel amid security arrangements. Over the last few months, there have been sev ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said it would examine whether the sharp reduction in the qualifying marks for NEET-PG 2025-26 affects the standard of postgraduate medical education. A bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe made the remarks while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the reduction in the percentile cut-off for the current academic year. "Adversely affecting the quality of education is what we are concerned about more than anything. It is about the quali ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Backed by political influence and financial muscle, the gangs illegally mining sand and minerals were functioning like a mafia, observed the Madras High Court. While hearing cases related to illegal sand and mineral mining, a division bench comprising Justices SM Subramaniam and C Kumarappan said preventing sand and mineral theft was the responsibility of the district Collectors concerned and directed that Collectors should take action against Revenue Department officials who fail to r ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Taking a serious note of the severe air pollution levels in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a slew of directions and asked the NHAI and the MCD to consider either temporary closing or relocating the nine toll plazas of the civic body at borders of the national capital to ease usual massive traffic congestion. The top court described the pollution crisis as an "annual feature" and called for pragmatic and practical solutions to tackle the menace and modified its own i ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Music composer Arjun Janys is making his directorial debut with Dr Shiva Rajkumar's 45. The film also features Upendra and Raj B Shetty in key roles. Talking about the film, Shiva Rajkumar said, "45 is my 129th film. The same kind of fear and devotion that I had while doing my first film, Anand, I had while doing this film as well. When Arjun Janya narrated this story to me, I was surprised. I wondered how he got such a thought. 45 can mean anything: a day, a second, a minute." He fur ...Read More >
CHENNAI: MDMK General Secretary Vaiko has condemned the Union government for introducing a Bill to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), alleging that the move reflects the Narendra Modi-led BJP government's hostility towards Mahatma Gandhi and its disregard for the livelihoods of poor rural citizens. In a statement, the senior leader said that despite strong opposition from Congress, DMK, MDMK, Left parties and other Opposition members in Parliament, U ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Acknowledging that the impacts of climate change are clearly visible, Chief Minister MK Stalin stressed that Tamil Nadu has been able to effectively protect itself from major damage due to proactive preparedness measures taken by the State government. Speaking in the third meeting of Tamil Nadu Governing Council on Climate Change, Stalin further recalled that Cyclone Ditwah severely impacted Sri Lanka but Tamil Nadu was spared from heavy damage because the government had anticipated ri ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Actor Sreeleela, who will be next seen in Parasakthi in Tamil, has called out social media users to not support AI-generated content. She wrote, "There is a difference between using and abusing technology. Advancements in technology are meant to simplify life, not complicate it. Every girl out there is a daughter, granddaughter, sister, friend, or colleague, even if she chooses art as one of her professions." She added that they wish to be part of an industry that spreads joy, with the ...Read More >
BELAGAVI: The ruling Congress in Karnataka on Wednesday staged a massive protest against the central government's move to replace the existing rural employment law MGNREGA, and the alleged "hate politics" against the party leadership in the National Herald case. The protest led by chief minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar in front of the Gandhi statue at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha here witnessed participation from ministers, MLAs and MLCs. Speaking to reporters here, Lar ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Freshworks Inc has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FireHydrant, a provider of AI-powered Incident Management software. This will bring Freshservice's IT Service Management and FireHydrant's core IT Operations Management as a unified AI-native ServiceOps solution designed to simplify operations. Co-founded by Robert Ross and Dylan Nielsen in 2018, FireHydrant has deep expertise in IT and DevOps with customers across consumer and business industries including Palo Alto Networks ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni was an established India star even before Prashant Veer and Kartik Sharma were born. They were literally in their nappies when the legend of 'Captain Cool' was taking shape during those formative years of the Indian Premier League. But if they put hands on their hearts, neither the 19-year-old keeper-batter Kartik nor the 20-year-old left-arm spin bowling all-rounder Veer would have thought that by Tuesday evening, they would jointly walk into the record books wit ...Read More >
CHENNAI: The Department of Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Kattankulathur, in association with BAJA SAEINDIA, organised a two-day national workshop on H-Baja (Hydrogen BAJA). The workshop brought together over 250 student participants from across India, offering an immersive learning platform focused on hydrogen-based mobility solutions. The workshop featured intensive and highly informative sessions centred on hC ...Read More >
CHENNAI: As dense fog and adverse weather conditions continue to disrupt air traffic in Delhi and other northern States, a total of 11 flights, four departures and seven arrivals were cancelled at Chennai airport on Wednesday, causing inconvenience to passengers. The cancelled departures from Chennai include flights to Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata and Ghaziabad. Similarly, seven incoming flights from Delhi, Jaipur, Patna, Pune, Kolkata and Indore to Chennai were also called off, airport sources said. ...Read More >
CHENNAI: The State Cyber Crime Investigation Centre (SCCIC), the investigating body of the Tamil Nadu Police's Cyber Crime Wing headquarters, has detained five major cyber offenders under the Goondas Act for their organised role in large-scale cyber fraud and cyber slavery-related offences, which affect the financial security of citizens. The Cybercrime headquarters did not name the offenders. However, it said that two of them were mule account aggregators from Rajasthan handling the financial ...Read More >
COIMBATORE: The forest department officials on Tuesday recovered the decomposed carcass of a sub-adult leopard at Kotagiri in the Nilgiris. A team of staff from Kattabetta Forest Range were on routine patrol near Uyilatti slope, when they noticed a foul smell emanating from the area. Upon inspection, they discovered the decomposed body of a leopard in a crevice between rocks. Senior forest officials rushed to the spot, and veterinarians conducted a post-mortem. "The exact cause of the animal' ...Read More >
CHENNAI: The Supreme Court ruling on establishing Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Tamil Nadu is "a severe blow" to the DMK government for "snatching the right to equal education," BJP state chief Nainar Nagenthran said on Tuesday. It would not matter if the ruling DMK dispensation, as usual, disrespected this order, as the government formed by the NDA allies will start Navodaya schools across Tamil Nadu, he said. "We will improve the quality of education in the State and make the students excel, ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Right4Paws, a premium pet nutrition brand owned by Coimbatore-based Pet Prakalp India Pvt Ltd, has announced the successful closure of its Series A funding round in which it has raised Rs 14 crore from a group of high net-worth individuals. Three Pins Capital Ltd, UAE, acted as advisor to the transaction. The capital raised will be used to expand manufacturing infrastructure, scale production capacity and strengthen internal capabilities. Pet Prakalp operates as the research, innovat ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Passengers at the city airport suffered a long wait as the Air India and Indigo flights to Dubai, Singapore, Mumbai and Delhi were delayed for up to seven hours since Monday evening. On Monday evening, an Indigo flight was scheduled to depart for Dubai at 6.45 pm with 170 passengers. Initially announced as delayed due to administrative reasons, the aircraft eventually took off only at 1.30 am on Tuesday, nearly seven hours behind schedule. Similarly, an Air India flight scheduled to d ...Read More >
COIMBATORE: Four persons died in a multiple vehicle collision at Thoppur in Dharmapuri on Tuesday. According to police, a lorry laden with poultry feed from Maharashtra was bound to Namakkal when its driver, Muniappan, 45, from Namakkal, lost control, while descending the slope on the Thoppur ghat stretch. "It brushed on three trucks before knocking down a two-wheeler and another truck, which then veered on the Salem-Dharmapuri Road and overturned after crashing into two cars coming in the opp ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: Sajid Akram, one of the suspects in the recent mass shooting at Bondi beach in Australia, is a native of Hyderabad, the Telangana Police said on Tuesday. He migrated to Australia 27 years ago and had limited contact with his family in Hyderabad, the Telangana DGP office said in a statement. The factors that led to radicalisation of Sajid Akram and his son Naveed Akram appear to have no connection with India or any local influence in Telangana, it said. Sajid Akram completed his B.C ...Read More >
KOLKATA: After Kolkata's air pollution level surged past that of Delhi for the past seven days in a row, environmentalists have called for a wider network of automatic air quality monitoring stations in the densely populated and traffic-heavy areas to capture a more accurate picture of the city's air quality. Green technologist and environmentalist Somendra Mohan Ghosh said that Kolkata needed at least 20 automatic air quality monitoring stations across the metropolitan area to obtain reliable, ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The BCCI has made it mandatory for all current national team players to turn up in at least two one-day matches of the upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy starting December 24. It is understood that with a gap of three weeks between the last T20I against South Africa in Ahmedabad (December 19) and the first ODI against New Zealand (January 11, 2026), the Board wants all its senior players to play domestic cricket. The diktat has been communicated to the players by the Ajit Agarkar-led nati ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Healthcare financing got yet another boost with Galaxy Health Insurance, India's youngest standalone health insurer promoted by TVS Family Venu Srinivasan and the family of industry veteran V Jagannathan, on Monday launching Galaxy Twin 360. The integrated product, to engage health insurance programme for young adults aged 18-45 years, comes with three plans: Core, Max & Ultra, which integrates comprehensive inpatient (IPD) protection, high-value outpatient (OPD) benefits and wellness ...Read More >
DHARAMSALA: India's new-ball bowlers and his own team's failure to deal with the general challenge of higher dot balls in a low-scorer led to South Africa's loss in the third T20 International against India, visiting skipper Aiden Markram has said. The pace duo of Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana struck early to leave South Africa reeling at 7 for 3 inside the first four overs, a setback from which the visitors never recovered as they slumped to a seven-wicket loss after posting just 117. The re ...Read More >
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