Chennai: The relief for residents of North Chennai’s Old Washermenpet over Chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s order to close Tasmac outlets within 500metres of educational institutions has been short lived. An outlet in the neighbourhood located near three schools and a college still hasn’t been closed.This two-decade-old liquor shop and bar in Mint Suburayulu Naidu…
Chennai: Travel disruptions stemming from the West Asia conflict continue to weigh on India’s medical tourism sector, with overseas patient inflows yet to return to earlier levels. The region accounts for a substantial share of overseas patients visiting India’s nearly $9-billion medical tourism market.Although hospital operators have begun to see early signs of improvement from…
As India seeks to build a globally competitive sports goods industry, Tamil Nadu is emerging as one of the strongest contenders for a large-scale manufacturing hub, leveraging its deep industrial ecosystem, export infrastructure, and vast MSME network. NITI Aayog‘s recent assessment of state-level readiness for sports goods manufacturing identified Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu…
Despite competition through the 1960s and 1970s, Kannadasan’s songs became, for many Tamils, a prism through which life was interpreted — articulating longing, disappointment, romance, faith, despair and philosophical resignation in language at once simple and memorable. VamananStanding well over six feet in height, Kannadasan often dictated his film songs while reclining against pillows like…
Royal Enfield, the 125-year-old motorcycle maker owned by Eicher Motors, ended FY26 with annual sales of over 1.11 million motorcycles, marking its second consecutive year above the million-unit milestone. While it has entered the EV segment, it has lined up a2,200-crore capex plan for FY27, including around 1,000 crore for its Chennai operations, covering new…
Chennai: Civil services aspirants found the general studies paper in the Union Public Service Commission’s (UPSC) preliminary exam tough and lengthy this year.As many as 16,626 candidates from the city appeared for the UPSC’s civil services preliminary exam on Sunday. As many as 6,494 candidates were absent.Ajay Isac, one of the aspirants who wrote the…
Chennai: The Arignar Anna Park in Royapuram is a mess, with the access road dug up for nearly four months, leaving visitors in the lurch.Known as Robinson Park, this is where former chief minister C Annadurai announced the launch of the DMK party. Its entrance on Cemetery Road has been dug up for stormwater drain…
Chennai: A two-year delay by revenue officials to furnish information under the RTI Act enabled the sale of a woman’s property to another person without her knowledge. The information commission ordered ₹25,000 as compensation, which was collected from the public information officer concerned as a penalty for not performing his duties.The victim, M Yashodha of…
Times News NetworkChennai: A team of experts from IIT Madras will assist the CBSE in fixing technical glitches in its portal for revaluation process for Class XII students.The team will work alongside experts from IIT Kanpur to improve the technical workflow. An announcement to this effect was made by Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on…
Chennai: About half of the biomining work at the Perungudi dumpyard has been completed, and a new composting facility at the site is expected to be ready by June 30.The biomining project at the 225-acre dumpyard, launched in 2021 at a cost of ₹350 crore, has so far reclaimed 94 acres, GCC commissioner Dr G…
