Day: February 4, 2019

The first year Carrom tournament doubles, organised by Dr Ambedkar Carrom Club will be held on 9 and 10 February.

Motorists commuting through Ramapuram are a happy lot as Bharathi Salai has now been re-laid.

Residents of Kurinji Nagar in Ramapuram are facing a slew of problems because of garbage in their locality.

Fresh from her WGM Norm show, Michelle Catherina (7.5) took sole lead, defeating Chandreyee Hajra in the tenth round of the Velammal – AICF Women International Grandmaster Round Robin Chess tournament 2019 here at Hotel Abu Sarovar Portico. Divya Deshmukh at 7.0 points, stayed behind the leader, despite her defeat at the hands of fellow Indian Aakanksha Hagawane.

In the match at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Suryapprakash played a patient knock as Vijay reached 308 for three at stumps. The left-handed opener smashed eight boundaries during his 285-ball stay at the crease. A majority of his fours (seven out of the eight) came on the leg side, with him targeting the space in front of the wicket.

A PIL was filed in the High Court today opposing the decision of making the elephant Chinna Thambi into a Kumki (an elephant which is trained in captive).

Newly-appointed CBI chief Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge of the probe agency today, officials said.

All eyes will be on India’s top singles player Prajnesh Gunneswaran in the Chennai Open ATP Challenger tennis tournament, which begins here today. The Chennai left-hander has been given top billing in the 64-player singles draw, which has a fair sprinkling of players in the top-200 and Indians eyeing ATP points.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi today started cross examination of complainant and BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in the National Herald case.

Perinthalmanna police have begun a probe after the One Stop Centre, where one of the first women entrants to Sabarimala temple, Kanakadurga, is staying, received an anonymous threat letter. The neighbourhood’s circle inspector T S Binu has said that as of now they were clueless about who wrote the letter.