Hajime Aota, chairman, Yamaha Motor India Group Japanese two-wheeler maker Yamaha expects a strong recovery in 2026 after a difficult 2025, projecting double-digit growth driven by resilient demand and easing supply-chain constraints. As it sharpens its focus on scooters, exports, premium products and electrification, Yamaha is looking to accelerate growth in India. Hajime Aota, chairman,…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu state pollution monitoring body has dropped action against the Tata Electronics’ Hosur plant after sample analysis failed to indicate water contamination, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has dropped any further action on the showcause notice after satisfactory response from the company, it…
Chennai: Greater Chennai Corporation has formed an 18-member panel headed by three IAS officers to ensure all street lights across the city work and there are no dark spots. The panel, which sureyed the city over Sunday night and the wee hours of Monday, identified 1,817 lights that were not working. The city has 3,11,285…
Filling the Gaps: GCC commissioner G S Sameeran inspects SWD works in Anna Nagar Chennai: In the wake of key arterial stretches either having dug up roads or abandoned storm water drain pits, Greater Chennai Corporation has identified about 70km long storm water drain missing links across the city. GCC commissioner G S Sameeran has…
Cop attacked by history sheeter during vehicle check Chennai: A traffic sub-inspector was injured after being attacked by a history-sheeter during a vehicle check in Perambur on Monday evening. The suspect, identified as Shyam alias Suresh Babu, 21, of Vyasarpadi. He is also a history sheeter under category-C rowdy list.The incident occurred around 5pm on…
Chennai: A magistrate court in Chennai sent Raheema Khatun and her boyfriend Ashraf Ali to three days of police custody in connection with the murder of her husband Ameer Ali, whose torso was found inside an abandoned suitcase at Perambur railway station on June 5.Immediately after the order, police brought the duo to the Otteri…
Chennai: A 39-year-old man, Prithviraj of Saligramam, was arrested for sexually harassing a 24-year-old woman from Nagaland on 100-Feet Road in Vadapalani during the early hours of Monday. The culprit followed the woman, falsely accused her of taking his mobile phone and sexually assaulted her when she was on her way home from a church.The…
Chennai: Sandwiched between GCC and Tambaram corporation limits, Medavakkam’s population has grown from 40,312 in 2016 to 94,665 in 2026. The village panchayat has emerged as one of the most sought-after residential destinations, thanks to its proximity to OMR, Velachery, Pallavaram and Tambaram. No wonder, the per square feet rate for a residential apartment has…
Nepalese watchman kills daughter, commits suicide Chennai: A day after a Nepalese man was rescued while trying to die by suicide after killing his 9-year-old daughter on the premises of the school she studied in, he died at the hospital without responding to treatment. Police said the man, Lakshmanan Prasad, 40, was working as the…
CHENNAI: Khaja Moideen, a suspected ISIS operative, and two of his aides arrested in connection with the murder of Hindu Munnani leader K P S Suresh Kumar and later nabbed by NIA for conspiring to set up sleeper cells in Nepal and India, have been acquitted by a special court for NIA cases, Poonamallee.“There is…
