Trump says he discussed trade with PM Modi U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with their conversation focused largely on trade .“We talked about a lot of things, but mostly the world of trade,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Mr. Trump added that energy was also... Read More

Deputy Chief Minister, D.K. Shivkumar. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Bengalurians will have to brace themselves for more digging and road closures, as Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar announced on Monday (October 20, 2025) that a Detailed Project Report (DPR) is being prepared for the white-topping of 500 km of roads in Bengaluru at a... Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (October 21, 2025) his plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin was on hold because he did not want it to be a “waste of time.” It was the latest twist in Trump’s stop-and-go effort to resolve the war in Ukraine. The decision to hold... Read More

Looking back at the events immediately after former Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) founder M.G. Ramachandran’s (MGR) demise in December 1987, veteran politician ‘Panruti’ S. Ramachandran recalls that it was Janaki Ramachandran who decided on her own to succeed her husband who was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from... Read More

Surplus water being released from Chembarambakkam reservoir at the rate of 100 cusecs per second on Tuesday due to the heavy rain. | Photo Credit: VELANKANNI RAJ B In a bid to maintain flood buffer storage and manage inflow, the Water Resources Department opened shutters of the Chembarambakkam reservoir on Tuesday evening. Water release from... Read More

Kakkan Main Road is the main link road for several residential areas of West Velachery, Adambakkam and Vanuvampet, to Anna Salai through the Race Course Road of Guindy. The motorists of West Velachery and Adambakkam depend on this arterial road to reach the city.  The stretch of the bus route road, which was in good... Read More

A history-sheeter was arrested for assaulting a 17-year-old boy following a quarrel over bursting firecrackers at Annai Sathya Nagar. According to police, Jayanthi, 36, of Annai Sathya Nagar, the mother of a 17-year-old boy reported that on Monday her son was bursting crackers near their house when a cracker accidentally fell near Balaji, who lives... Read More

Police arrested two men for allegedly assaulting a woman and threatening her not to allow her daughter to testify in a murder case in Mylapore. According to police, Muniyammal, 55, of Gandhi Nagar, Mylapore, runs a flower shop on Bazaar Road. Her daughter Selvi’s husband, ‘Kizhangu’ Saravanan, a history-sheeter was murdered in Maduravoyal in 2023,... Read More

Mr. Udhayanidhi Stalin on Tuesday inspected flood-preparedness projects in various parts of Chennai and directed officials to expedite work ahead of heavy rains Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Tuesday ordered officials to explore the feasibility of providing safe parking spaces for residents in flood-prone areas of the city. Following an inspection of flood preparedness in... Read More

The Pattabiram Police have arrested three persons, including the prime accused and his father, in connection with the death of four men in an explosion caused by country-made crackers stored at a house in Thandurai near Avadi. On Sunday afternoon, four men died after an accidental blast triggered by illegally stored firecrackers and country-made bombs... Read More