A scene from Aakhirkaar | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement When Ranga Shankara opened its doors to the public in October 2004, it decided to go all out. “We started with a 45-day festival, and I became five years older in those 45 days,” laughs Arundhati Nag, the founder of this iconic theatre space in Bengaluru.... Read More

Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation Ltd (TNGECL) has received regulatory nod for slew of renewable energy projects. In its petition before the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC), TNGECL sought approval to float tender for selection of developers through tariff based Competitive Bidding (TBCB) with e-reverse auction for procurement of 1500 megawatt hour (375 MW x 4 hours... Read More

The sun has a profound influence on life on the earth. It’s the source of life as well as motivates  the technological infrastructure that sustains modern society. Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and energetic storms create space weather that affect satellites and astronauts in space, disrupting communications, navigation, and power grids on the earth. Understanding... Read More

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday announced that the Vaikom Award for Social Justice for the year 2025 will be presented to Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a U.S-based Dalit civil rights activist. The State government instituted the award in the memory of the late social reformer ‘Periyar’ E.V. Ramasamy for his role in the Vaikom Satyagraha, to... Read More

Tunnelling in the city has been a mix of a few fairly smooth journeys and some complicated ones so far. | Photo Credit: S.R. RAGHUNATHAN Nearly 35% of Chennai Metro Rail’s underground network has been built for the upcoming ₹63,246 crore phase II project. Across the three corridors—Madhavaram to SIPCOT (corridor 3), Light House to... Read More

Members of the Mylapore Fund Aggrieved Depositors Association conducted a press meet on the financial fraud conducted by the Mylapore Hindu Permanent fund limited in Chennai on Wednesday | Photo Credit: S.R. RAGHUNATHAN The Mylapore Fund Aggrieved Depositors Association (MFADA) has requested the intervention of the State government to expedite the investigation into defrauding the... Read More

The Tribunal, headed by the Speaker, constituted under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution will take up hearing on Friday. File. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO Assembly Speaker G. Prasad Kumar is all set to resume hearings on the disqualification petitions filed against four BRS legislators for allegedly switching loyalty to the ruling Congress. The... Read More

An object, what appears to be a missile, flies through the air, as the Missile General Bureau of North Korea claims they successfully conducted a test of a major weapons system on October 22, 2025, at an unspecified location, in this photo released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency October 23, 2025. Photo:... Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping. File. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) said he expected to reach a trade agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and said he would raise concerns about China’s purchases of Russian oil during their meeting in South... Read More

Flames billow out after a fire broke out at a residential building, at Indirapuram, in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, on October 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A fire broke out at a multi-storey residential building in the Indirapuram area of Ghaziabad on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) night and was brought under control within an hour,... Read More