Lucknow's own MS silences sea of yellow at Chepauk

Despite brief lull in the middle overs, Marcus Stoinis keeps chase going with a sensational century to take Super Giants home in final over of match

Saxena takes seven-fer against UFCC T Nagar

JALAJ SAXENA'S 7/58 came in handy for Alwarpet CC to restrict UFCC T Nagar to 143 in their first essay in the semifinals of the Senior Division league of the TNCA played at SSN college grounds.

Chennai Super Kings shed off muddle in the middle-overs

AFTER their heavy loss against Lucknow Super Giants last week, Chennai Super Kings skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad admitted that middle-overs slowdown cost them dear as the team fell short by about 10-15 runs.

Army Pal: Making a splash in open-water meet in Miami

ARMY PAL, the open-water swimmer from India, had to beat 87 participants in the 10 KM open-water race to earn the gold medal at Swim Miami 2024.

LEGAL BATTLE NCLT defers Byju's case hearing to Jun 6

THE Bengaluru bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has deferred the hearing of the ongoing case between edtech firm Byju's and the four investors to June 6.

Allot children below 12 seat next to parents: DGCA

CHILDREN below the age of 12 have to be allotted a seat next to one of their parents, the country's civil aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday directed the airlines.

Govt may shift base year to FY23 or FY24

There has been a demand to change current base year (2011-12), which is used for comparison of economic data

7 bids for chemistry cell PLI scheme

THE government on Tuesday said it has received bids from seven bidders under the global tender floated by it for re-bidding of Production Linked Incentives (PLI) for 10 GWh advanced chemistry cell (ACC) manufacturing announced on January 24, 2024.

Extreme weather may pose upside risks of inflation, says RBI bulletin

EXTREME weather conditions could pose upside risks to inflation, along with prolonged geopolitical tensions that may keep crude oil prices volatile, the Reserve Bank said in its April Bulletin on Tuesday.

Trading volume on WazirX surges to over $400 mn in March 2024

CRYPTO exchange WazirX has witnessed the highest trading volume of over $400 million in March 2024, and in December 2023, it saw the highest sign-up rates.

'No spectrum auction where it is not feasible'

THE government is going through the auction route for spectrum allocation, except for narrowly defined items or cases in which auctioning is not feasible, said telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday.

US univ campuses on boil over Gaza

Demonstrators live in tents, disrupt official events; Biden says he has programme to deal with anti-semitic protest

UK Parliament approves Rwanda deportation bill

BRITISH Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from Parliament early Tuesday, hours after he pledged deportation flights would begin in July.

MUSLIM VOTES MATTER, BJP HAS EDGE IN 5 SEATS

5 Assam constituencies - Karimganj, Silchar, Nagaon, Darrang- Udalguri and Diphu - will go to Lok Sabha elections on April 26

Under pressure from party, SP chief may enter Kannauj fray

A day after being announced as SP candidate from Kannauj, uncertainty loomed large over the candidature of Tej Pratap Yadav, the nephew of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, on Tuesday.

Pak acknowledges India's targeted elimination of terrorists: Yogi

CRITICAL of the Congress and I Samajwadi Party (SP) on 'handling' terror incidents, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that while Congress government conveniently looked the other way when ever a terrorist incident occurred, the Samajwadi Party, on the other, crossed all limits by having the audacity to withdraw cases against terrorists who attacked Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya and Sankat Mochan Temple in Kashi.

'Missing' Cong Surat candidate whose papers cancelled may join BJP

A day after the BJP's unco tested triumph in the Surat Lok Sabha seat, Prafull Togadia, Congress' former leader of the Opposition in Surat corporation, has suggested that Nilesh Kumbhani, the party leader whose candidature faced rejection over alleged irregularities, is likely to defect to the BJP.

Kalpana Soren takes charge, says BJP will get befitting reply

KALPANA Soren, who entered public life a few weeks ago and has been quite vocal against the NDA government at the centre, has once again challenged the centre, saying that the dictatorial forces conspiring to destroy democracy and the Constitution will receive a befitting reply in the upcoming elections.

LITTLE GROUND CLEARANCE FOR EX-CM

TWO months ago when former Maharashtra Congress chief minister Ashok Chavan joined the BJP, the saffron camp went euphoric about its forgone victory prospect in the Lok Sabha polls.

'Is your apology as big as the ads,' SC asks Ramdev, slams Centre's 'inaction'

THE Supreme Court on Tuesday assailed Patanjali Ayurved MD Acharya Balakrishna and its co-founder Yoga guru Ramdev and asked them if the apology published in newspapers was as big as their misleading advertisement.

India ranks low in early disaster warning

INDIA is among the top vulnerable countries as Asia remained the world's most disaster-hit region because of weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Tuesday while highlighting that extreme heat, severe floods, a glacial lake outburst flood devastated parts of India last year claiming around 2,500 lives.

Forces make inroads in C'garh, find Naxal memorials hiding casualties

AS part of 'Operation Prahar', the forces have been entering inside Naxal zones in Chhattisgarh and are coming to know about new facts by finding memorials built by Left-Wing-Extremists (LWES) in the memory of their cadres, who were killed in different anti-extremist operations, officials said on Tuesday.

'Be kind whenever possible, it is always possible'

WHEN His Holiness the Dalai Lama came to India in 1960, he learned about around 51 young children struggling to survive among the large group of refugees who fled from Tibet.

Thoonga Nagaram steps out to watch Alagar enter Vaigai

Thanks to tight security, the iconic event ended with just a few glitches

MLA's 'DNA' remark on RaGa sparks row, Cong livid as KL CM backs Anvar

CPM MLA PV Anvar's remarks that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should undergo a DNA test to verify whether he really belongs to the Nehru-Gandhi family snowballed into a controversy on Tuesday, days before the state goes to the polls.

AP halts Krishna water, may give 4tmcft in June

CITING inadequate storage in the Kandaleru reservoir, the Andhra Pradesh government has stopped releasing water from the Krishna river to Tamil Nadu.

Man injured while climbing down Velliangiri dies days later

A 31-year-old Tiruppur native who was injured last week after falling while descending the Velliangiri hills died on Monday evening.

Govt wants SC to reject plea seeking transfer of mins' trial to other states

THE state government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court to dismiss the plea seeking direction to transfer the trials against incumbent ministers of Tamil Nadu to other states.

HM made us clean school toilets, say SC girls; probe on

IN yet another instance of caste atrocity, two Scheduled Caste girl students, aged 11 and 12, were allegedly forced by the school headmistress to clean toilets of a government school in Dharapuram in Tiruppur district.

₹4 crore seizure: Nainar's relative and staff appear before Tambaram police

THREE persons including the staff and relative of Tirunelveli BJP candidate Nainar Nagendran appeared before the Tambaram police in connection with the ₹3.98 crore seizure from the Nellai Express train few days ago.