Day: July 9, 2019

On the 9th day today, Lord Athi Varadar was adorned with five varieties of flowers and wrapped with yellow robe.

There is a festive ring to the air in Odaima Nagar. For, the tiny fishing hamlet located on the shores of Elliots Beach, is all set to celebrate a ‘Thiruvizha’, after four long years.

Sri Sankara MHSS, Thiruvalluvar Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur, celebrated Swarna Jayanthi, the literary association’s inauguration, recently.

The tournament gives youngsters exposure to a longer format especially at the start of season. 14 teams from Chennai and 1 each from Coimbatore and Madurai will be participating in this year’s edition.

The 12-day tournament in the state will see 128 teams across 8 districts battle it out for the finale. The league in the state will kick off in Coimbatore, 9 July. The winning teams from 8 zones in Tamilnadu will then participate in the grand finale to be held in Coimbatore 21 and 22 July. 

Third seed Nadal, the 2008 and 2010 champion, swept to an easy 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 win over outclassed Joao Sousa of Portugal. He will next play either Sam Querrey or Tennys Sandgren in what will be his 39th appearance in a Grand Slam quarter-final.

They may have each had some slip-ups along the way, but it is perhaps no surprise that cricket’s three wealthiest nations — England, India and Australia — are in the semi-finals of the World Cup.

Batting first, Green Invaders posted a mammoth 391 for two in 50 overs with Thirush Kamini slamming 243 not out (165b, 35×4, 3×6) and received good support from M Revathi who scored 65 not out. In reply, Red Rangers was bundled out for 135 with none of its batsmen making any significant contribution.

He has always been a quintessential hero of Indian batting line-up but skipper Virat Kohli is happy playing a protagonist, who does not mind letting his deputy Rohit Sharma take the World Cup centre-stage.

Russia’s Federal Environmental Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostechnadzor) has issued license to Rosatom to operate the two nuclear reactors on board Akademik Lomonosov for the next 10 years.