Killed while playing outside house Chennai: A three-year-old girl was killed after being hit by a two-wheeler while playing outside her house near Chengalpet on Tuesday.The victim, identified as Magizhini, daughter of Jayakumar, was playing near her residence on Roshini Amman Koil Street at Irungundrapalli when a passing two-wheeler knocked her down.She suffered severe injuries…
A 25-year-old man, an Indian passenger, was arrested at Chennai International Airport after Customs officials seized 4.076 kg of suspected hydroponic ganja, valued at about ₹4 crore, from his checked-in baggage on his arrival from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, in the wee hours on Monday. A 25-year-old man, an Indian passenger, was arrested at Chennai…
Good Samaritans helped put out fire Chennai: Panic gripped Kovur near Kundrathur on Tuesday evening after a school bus carrying students caught fire near a gas filling station. However, all the children were safely evacuated before flames spread and gas station employees helped extinguish the fire using extinguishers.According to sources, a private school in Kovur…
Chennai: After remaining closed to the public for more than three years, the four-acre Muthurangam Park, one of the largest parks within Tambaram City Municipal Corporation limits, is set to be restored and upgraded at a cost of ₹11.20 crore – with a glow garden.The park in West Tambaram falling under Zone 4, will be…
Chennai: After 86 days of voting, the results of election conducted to elect 23 members to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry was declared by the Supreme Court-appointed high-power committee on Tuesday.Those who elected include former chairman of the council P S Amalraj, and 17 others including advocates K Balu, R C Paul…
The emerging technologies initiative is an extension of the TN Spark scheme, launched last year, and is currently implemented in around 5,000 govt schools Chennai: Emerging technologies, including AI prompt engineering, data science and computational thinking, are set to be a part of the curriculum for Classes VI-XII in a phased manner from the next…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has emerged as the country’s biggest employment generator under Centre’s production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for textiles, creating nearly one in four jobs generated under the programme.The scheme for textiles has contributed to employment generation by encouraging investments in the manufacture of MMF apparel, MMF fabrics and technical textiles.The scheme has generated…
Chennai: Hatsun Agro Product Ltd (HAP), a dairy company, on Tuesday announced that its quarterly revenue crossed the ₹3,000-crore mark for the first time in the quarter ended June 2026.The company’s revenue for the first quarter of FY27 stood at ₹3,090 crore, compared with ₹2,590 crore in the corresponding quarter last year, registering a growth…
CHENNAI: Daughter of late actor Ishari Velan, in whose memory Chennai-based Vels Educational Trust was founded in 1992, has moved the Madras high court seeking judicial intervention in the administration of the trust.K Azhaku Tamil Selvi, who is also one of the founders and lifetime trustees of the trust, has sought the court to frame…
Businessman abducted during morning walk; four arrested Chennai: Four masked men kidnapped a businessman during his morning walk, threatened him with weapons, demanded ₹50 lakh and robbed him of a five-sovereign gold chain on Monday. Police solved the case by arresting the four abductors within 12 hours when they came to collect the money from…
