Day: February 6, 2020

The star-studded charity match to raise funds for Australian bushfire victims, which will see Sachin Tendulkar coach one of the teams, has been shifted from the SCG because of forecast of torrential rain and will now be played in Melbourne on Sunday.

A Tamilnadu Minister made a tribal boy remove his slippers during the inauguration of an elephant camp in Theppakkadu near here today, a video of which has gone viral drawing flak from a section of social media users.

”If a player really have interest and passion in the game, then no matter what, I will teach him to make his moves better,” says Praveen Kumar, a resident of Nesapakkam.

The United States Senate Wednesday acquitted President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction to Congress — giving him a major political and moral victory in an election year.

Amid anti-CAA protests in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress and the Left of inciting people at protest sites while making it clear that the Act will neither impact any Indian citizen nor harm minority interests.

”Seeru has a strong message. It speaks about the need to educate and empower women”, says actor Jiiva.

Michael Antony representing Nellai Nadar scored an vital 65 to help his team defeat DAV Gopalapuram in the Young Talents FYNSEA Logistics U-14 Inter school Cricket tournament held here, yesterday.

Chennai: The Crime Branch CID has arrested one more government staff in connection with the Tamilnadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) scam.
Police arrested Karthi, who works as an Assistant in the Commercial Tax department. He allegedly paid Rs 7 lakhs to land on the job.

Sources said that H Omkanthan, a Record Clerk of the TNPSC and one of the main accused of the TNPSC scam, has been taken into police custody for four days. His house at Washermenpet was raided by the CB-CID. His laptop and pen drives were seized by the police.

Today, the CB-CID will be taking him to Ramanathapuram, Rameswaram and Sivagangai for further inquiry, sources said. Yesterday, the third policeman involved in the scam was arrested. Bhoopathi of Sivagangai, a police Constable was accused of acting as an agent in the exam scam, collecting money from candidates and handing it to main accused Jayakumar. He is currently in the city for a police inquiry.

Police also arrested four more persons involved in the Group IIA and group IV exam scam. Incidentally, all of them were government employees.

Police teams are searching for the main accused Jayakumar in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. In the Group IV scam, the candidates used a special ink, which disappears after a few hours. Jayakumar then re-shaded it to the right answers.

He allegedly got access to the answer scripts through Omkanthan. Following this, TNPSC banned 99 candidates for life from the Group IV exam.

The Reserve Bank of India today opted for a status quo on benchmark interest rate after the Union Budget for 2020-21 slipped on fiscal deficit target and there were signs of hardening inflation amid an uncertain global environment.

Tough times continued for actor Vijay, for the sleuths of Income-Tax (I-T) department conducted raids at his properties for the second consecutive day today, besides questioning him about his financial dealings.