Day: January 26, 2019

Vignesh S Iyer scored a match-winning 90 against Le Chatelier (Madurai) to guide St Bede’s AIHSS (Chennai) to the final of the Muthoot Group Junior Super Kings Inter-School T20 tournament at the ICL Cricket Ground in Tirunelveli.

Not all the years of watching Thyagaraja Aradhana on TV prepared us for the sheer grandeur and mesmerising atmosphere at Thiruvaiyaru on Pushya Bahula Panchami, the day the saint-composer attained samadhi.

A magnificent unbeaten double-century by captain Jason Holder and a calm, supporting century from Shane Dowrich put the West Indies in total control after three days of the first Test against England at Kensington Oval on Friday.

Succumbing to political pressure, President Donald Trump has backed a deal to temporarily end the record-breaking government shutdown in America’s history despite getting no funding for his controversial plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.

Experts and satellite images reveal military base in Saudi Arabia may be testing and manufacturing ballistic missiles, the kind which the country had long criticized its archrival Iran for possessing.

Mountaineer Bachendri Pal was on Friday conferred with the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian award, while Gautam Gambhir, Bajrang Punia and Sunil Chhetri, among others, received the Padma Shri.

Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Friday claimed BJP was continuing its Operation Lotus to topple the JDS-Congress government and tried to lure a Congress legislator with ‘gift’, a charge rejected by the opposition party. Accusing BJP and its state president B S Yeddyurappa of being behind the offer allegedly made Thursday night, he said the MLA informed him that he had rejected the gift.

The Tamilnadu government informed the Madras High Court Friday that it would not implement a G.O for posting secondary grade teachers to LKG and UKG classes in anganwadi centres till 30 January.

A total of nine deaths due to Kyatasandra Forest Disease, also known as monkey fever, has been reported in Shivamogga district since it broke out there in December 2018, the Karnataka health department said Friday Releasing the data, the department said 100 positive cases had been identified in the district since 24 December, 2018, of whom nine had died.

Roger Stone, President Donald Trump’s confidant, has been charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid.