Meanwhile, IMD has issued warnings for thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds across various regions over the next 7 days. Heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected in Assam, Meghalaya, and Aruna…
“India is likely to see above-normal rainfall in the four-month monsoon season (June to September), with cumulative rainfall estimated at 105 per cent (with a model error of 5 per cent) of the lo…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday discussed a wide range of topics at the Rising Bharat Summit with Network18’s Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi.From giving a sneak peek into his day-to-day l…
Items including geysers and food mixers worth around Rs 7 million (approximately $81,500) were confiscated from a warehouse operated by an Amazon subsidiary, BIS said. The products either lacked th…
“AJEY: The Untold Story of a Yogi”, scheduled to hit theaters in 2025. This cinematic masterpiece will be available in five languages – Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam – ensuring a wid…
Chief Ministers and leaders from multiple states convened in Chennai for the first meeting of the Joint Action Committee, led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin. The gathering aims to push for …
Jaishankar, who has now become India’s longest-serving foreign minister since the independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru, batted for a new world order, saying the “liberal rules-based order” is…
The logo carried ‘ru’, the first letter of the Tamil word ‘Rubaai’ which denotes the Indian currency in the vernacular language. It also had the caption “everything for all,” indicating…
The former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Shaktikanta Das, has been appointed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Principal Secretary, the central government announced on Saturday.
The former…
The ruling DMK bagged big in by-polls held in Tamil Nadu’s Erode East constituency in results declared Saturday (February 8), with its candidate VC Chandirakumar securing a comfortable lead of more…
Late musicians Sharda Sinha, Pankaj Udhas, Tamil superstar Ajith Kumar, veteran filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and singer Arijit Singh were among 139 recipients of the coveted Padma Awards for the year 2025…
India’s powerful human rights watchdog has admonished labor officials for failure to adequately investigate evidence of employment discrimination at Foxconn, which makes Apple iPhones, and told them…
A new wave of scholars and researchers is using AI and advanced methodologies to crack the Indus Valley script. This has raised hopes that the ancient language will soon be decoded with the help of…
Former Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin has ignited a fresh debate on the status of Hindi in India, stating that it is “not a national language, but an official language.” The remark, made during…
India has reported seven cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory virus whose symptoms are usually similar to a cold. Two infants were infected in Karnataka’s Bengaluru, two children…
Two new cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) have been detected in children in Maharashtra’s Nagpur.
With the latest two cases in Nagpur, the total number of cases of HMPV in India this season has…
The Indian Air Force, in a recent report tabled in the Lok Sabha, has confirmed that the helicopter crash that resulted in the deaths of former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his…
An incident of gruesome violence came to fore from Jharkhand where a 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled his live-in partner to death and chopped her body into 50 pieces.
The…
In a significant move, the Tamil Nadu government is set to offer Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer, an incentive package that includes 200 acres of land for its proposed battery…
Tata Electronics is making waves in India’s tech manufacturing sector with a major new acquisition. The Indian giant is set to buy a 60 per cent stake in Pegatron’s only iPhone manufacturing plant in…
Chennai, along with other cities in the state, has experienced significant rainfall in recent days. The India Meteorological Departmentn(IMD) has forecasted heavy rainfall for two days for Tamil Nadu,…
India’s mobile manufacturing industry is gaining global attention, thanks to the Make in India initiative. Big companies like Samsung and Apple are setting up large factories in the country, making…
Amid intense rainfall, the Karnataka government issued an order declaring holidays for Bengaluru schools and colleges on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. The announcement comes after the India…
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das paid his final respects to the late industrial icon Ratan Tata on Thursday. In a heartfelt message shared on the social media platform X (formerly…
An express train rammed into a stationary train at Kavarapettai in Tamil Nadu, and several people are feared injured, railway police said.
A fire broke out after the express train rammed into the…
Top Indian insurer Star Health has sued Telegram and a self-styled hacker after Reuters reported that the hacker was using chatbots on the messaging app to leak personal data and medical reports of…
India’s population growth is slowing, but the working-age population is set to increase, with projections indicating that it may reach 64.4 per cent by the upcoming Census, according to a report by…
A four-hour-long purification ritual was held at Andhra Pradesh’s Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) temple for Lord Venkateswara Swamy and restore the sanctity of the shrine amid allegations of…
Stolen customer data including medical reports from India’s biggest health insurer, Star Health, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram, just weeks after Telegram’s founder was accused of…
Southern states of India, which did not show “exceptional” performance before 1991, have emerged as the leading economic powerhouse following the economic liberalisation. “Overall, the southern states…
Karnataka is mulling to connect Tamil Nadu’s Hosur with Bengaluru via metro, a first-of-its-kind inter-state metro in southern India. However, Kannada groups are not so psyched about the project as…
Ford Motor has held talks with India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu to explore producing vehicles for exports, Tamil Nadu’s chief minister MK Stalin said on Wednesday.
The US automaker had stopped…
Four Indians were charred to death after the SUV they were travelling in bursted into flames following a multi-car crash in Anna City in Texas, US.
The massive crash involving five vehicles took…
Nearly 20,000 workers across major Indian ports are likely to go on a strike from Wednesday to demand immediate settlement of pay revisions and pension benefits, union workers said on Tuesday.
The…
Foxconn, the manufacturing giant that makes the iPhone for Apple, is setting its sights on boosting the number of women in leadership roles in India, particularly within design and technology. This…
On August 24, India is set to make history with the launch of its first hybrid reusable rocket, the Rhumi-1. The rocket will be launched from the East Coast Road coastline in Chennai, marking a…
Apple is gearing up to expand its manufacturing footprint in India with the establishment of a fourth iPhone assembly plant. This new facility, being developed by Tata Electronics, is expected to…
Apple is gearing up for the launch of its highly anticipated iPhone 16 series by ramping up production, with mass manufacturing already in full swing. Reports indicate that production began in June,…
The Madras High Court on Monday ordered notice to the Centre and Tamil Nadu government on a petition, which sought to regulate and restrict the functioning of You Tube so as to bring it in conformity…
A DMK leader on Saturday stirred up controversy after he said there is no evidence to prove the existence of Lord Ram.
Tamil Nadu’s Transport Minister SS Sivasankar, during an address in Ariyalur on…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday announced financial assistance to the Kerala government for Rs 5 crore, following massive landslides that devastated Wayanad. In addition, two senior…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for three districts in Kerala—Kozhikode, Kannur, and Kasaragod—on Sunday, July 28, due to the likelihood of heavy rain. The…
Nine months after eloping with a gangster, a 45-year-old woman named Surya Jay returned to her IAS husband’s home in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar where she attempted suicide. She passed away during treatment…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi Stalin will likely be elevated to the post of deputy chief minister.
Sources have said that the change will occur as soon as next month before MK…
In the K Armstrong murder case, K Thiruvengadam, 33, was one of 11 the accused.
In a Sunday “encounter” in Chennai, the police fatally shot a 33-year-old man who was one of the defendants in the…
INDIA bloc parties won 10 assembly seats, while the BJP clinched two and an Independent one, as votes were counted on Saturday for the by-elections held earlier this week on 13 seats in seven states….
The INDIA bloc is leading in 10 out of 13 Assembly seats while the Aam Aadmi Party has won the Jalandhar West Assembly constituency. The results of by-polls in 13 Assembly seats will be declared on…
The MK Stalin-led Tamil Nadu government has ordered the formation of a committee to review the recently implemented criminal laws and amend them in ways that will suit the state’s law and order…
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Supremo Mayawati on Sunday paid floral tribute to slain party’s Tamil Nadu Chief, K Armstrong, at Corporation School Ground in Chennai and urged the state government to refer…
The Tamil Nadu Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) Chief K Armstrong was hacked to death by six armed men in Chennai’s Perambur on Friday. He was talking to his friends and supporters near his house when the…
In a shocking incident, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Tamil Nadu president Armstrong was hacked to death by an unidentified mob of six near his residence in Perambur, Chennai, on Friday evening, according…
BJP president and Union minister Jagat Prakash Nadda has been named Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha, official sources said on Monday.
Nadda replaces Union minister Piyush Goyal, who recently…
The Union Cabinet, on Wednesday, approved the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme for offshore wind energy projects, with a total outlay of Rs7453 crore.
The total includes, an outlay of Rs 6,853 crore…
Over 30 people have died after consuming spurious liquor in Tamil Nadu’s Kallakurichi district. Officials say that the death toll is likely to increase.
Meanwhile, 68 others who drank the same toxic…
At least 25 people died and more than 60 people were hospitalised after reportedly consuming illicit liquor in Tamil Nadu’s Kallakurichi district, officials said on Thursday. The officials have…
A day after 40 Indian workers were killed in a fire tragedy at a labour housing facility in Mangaf area of Kuwait, the authorities in Kerala on Thursday said that 24 of the deceased were from the…
With several Indians feared dead in Kuwait building fire on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi convened an urgent high-level meeting at his residence over the tragedy.
During the meeting, PM Modi…
While several senior ministers such as Smriti Irani and RK Singh from the previous government were not considered for Modi 3.0 after they failed to secure their berths in the Lok Sabha, the third…
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts a ‘heatwave’ in parts of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, East Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and the surrounding areas on June 5. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Tamil…
Belying the exit poll results, the latest Election Commission data for results and trends for the 2024 Lok Sabha election show the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failing to win a majority of its…