Chennai: City researchers have identified a locally found freshwater microalgae that can ‘eat’ plastic waste in polluted water bodies in three months. A study by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, University of Madras, found that Uronema trentonense, isolated from plastic waste in Rajakilpakkam Lake, can degrade up to 27% of high-density polyethylene (HDPE)…
Chennai: The city police have arrested two men involved in a mobile phone snatching case in Vepery and seized a stolen two-wheeler.On May 3, the victim, Ilanchezhiyan, 38, was walking along Thana Street when two men on a two-wheeler followed him, snatched his mobile phone, and fled the scene. Based on his complaint, Vepery police…
Chennai: India’s esports sector is searching for sustainable monetisation models after new gaming rules gave it formal recognition but also eliminated real-money gaming companies that were among its biggest sponsors. The rules, effective May 1, separate esports from money gaming for the first time, bringing regulatory clarity and ending the negative perception that had kept…
CHENNAI: The 17th Tamil Nadu assembly is set to reflect a greater demographic diversity with 25 people from minority communities, 50 from SC/ST communities, 23 women and two brahmins representatives entering the House. And, TVK has been the catalyst in breaking caste and religious barriers. The party fielded dalit candidates in eight general constituences and…
CHENNAI: The Congress has offered conditional support to TVK president C Joseph Vijay who is 10 seats short in the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly to form the govt and has reached out to multiple parties in both alliances.The five Congress MLAs will offer support through a letter tomorrow on condition that TVK does not induct…
Chennai: Former Egmore MLA I Paranthamen made a direct attack on HR and CE minister P K Sekarbabu blaming him for chief minister M K Stalin‘s defeat in Kolathur constituency.“Is this what you meant when you said, ‘I will take care,’ P K Sekarbabu,” Paranthamen asked in an X post. He had tagged the post…
Chennai: As chief minister M K Stalin drove through Kolathur on Tuesday, the crowds that gathered were not cheering but crying in a show of support for the work he had done in the constituency over a decade of wins, and in shock at his defeat in the 2026 assembly election. From his car, Stalin…
Chennai: Two pregnancies in Chennai were thrown off course by an unexpected kidney cancer diagnosis, highlighting the need to include renal scans during routine health check-ups.In a brief report in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology’s Uro-Oncology Asia 2026, doctors from the Meridian Super Speciality Hospital found an 8.5cm lump on the right kidney of…
CHENNAI: Actor Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam missed the majority mark of 118 by just 10 seats. A closer look at the results show that in at least a dozen constituencies, TVK lost by margins so small that a minor swing could have changed the outcome. In one seat, the defeat margin was under 300 votes….
Chennai: Madras high court has emphasised that in an industrial dispute, if a labour court concludes that the domestic inquiry conducted was not fair and proper, then such issue must be decided as a preliminary issue before adjudicating the actual dispute. “In the event of a labour court deciding the main issue without deciding the…
