TAMIL NADU
Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagendran travelled to New Delhi on Friday following a call from the party’s central leadership, amid speculation over organisational changes and recent controversies surrounding his remarks.
CHENNAI
Chennai, Aug 21: The Tamil Nadu Police has established Internal Vigilance Cells in all districts and cities to strengthen transparency, integrity and public confidence in the police department. According to an official communication from DGP/Head of Police Force Mahesh…
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NATION
Two commercial vessels carrying 22 Indian nationals have been hijacked in separate incidents off Yemen and Somalia, raising fresh concerns over piracy in waters around the Horn of Africa.
WORLD
SPORTS
India’s women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand staged a stunning comeback to defeat China’s Jia Yifan and Zhang Shuxian 16-21, 21-15, 21-13 in the quarter-finals of the BWF World Championships 2026 on Friday.
BUSINESS
Read MoreThe Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is analysing Lconcerns raised by traders and other market participants over the new Closing Auction Session (CAS) for futures and options (F&O) eligible stocks but the
Zomato said the National Pension System (NPS) corpus built by its delivery partners has crossed Rs 1 crore, with enrolments under its NPS Platform Workers Model surpassing 2 lakh Permanent Retirement Account Numbers
Wholesale price inflation softened month-on-month for the first time in nine months to 9.78 per cent in July on easing in fuel and food prices.
The government has for the first time fixed maximum cooking gas LPG production targets for individual public- and private-sector refineries and upstream companies, as it seeks to build a domestic supply buffer after the West
ENTERTAINMENT
Veteran actress Sowcar Janaki, one of the most distinguished and versatile artistes of Indian cinema, died on Friday at the age of 94. She passed away at 1.59 pm, bringing to an end an extraordinary career
COLUMNS
The 2026 protests against systemic exam paper leaks at Jantar Mantar have ended. The batons have been withdrawn, the tear gas has dispersed, the tents have been folded. Yet for a number of young women who stood in those crowds, the real confrontation has only just begun, writes TR Jawahar
Dr AK’s greatness can be best be demonstrated only through ironies. A bachelor sans scandal. A teacher non- pareil who kept learning non-stop to his end of days, writes TR Jawahar
TR Jawahar writes in his Pointblank column: Three weeks after the NEET-UG 2026 fiasco, merit lies shattered as students confront a system where integrity has become a gamble.
TR Jawahar, in his Point-Blank column, says a controversial judicial remark branding unemployed youth as “cockroaches” has spiralled into a sharp digital uprising, with satire morphing into a serious critique of power and privilege.
