Tami Nadu Minister for Housing and Urban Development B. Rajkumar. File | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam A Bill to further amend the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971, was introduced in the Assembly on Tuesday (September 1, 2026), seeking to dispense with the requirement of obtaining prior concurrence of the District Collector for the […]
Somewhere in a clinic waiting room, a patient describes a habit that sounds almost too small to matter. One sleeping pill has become two. Two has become three, taken earlier and earlier in the evening, because without them the mind simply won’t switch off anymore. Nothing about this feels like the version of addiction shown […]
Image for representation only | Photo Credit: J. Allen Egenuse At least 2.08 crore voters, or 21.14% of Maharashtra’s pre-Special Intensive Revision electorate, have not been included in the draft electoral roll published on Monday (August 31) following the SIR exercise across all 288 Assembly constituencies in the State. Of the 9.78 crore voters on […]
1 dead, 1 critically injured in Times Square stabbing; police kill suspect At least one person was killed and another critically injured after a woman allegedly stabbed two people in New York City’s Times Square before she was fatally shot by police, authorities said.The stabbings occurred at around 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue on Monday, […]
Trump hails Supreme Court ruling on $400M White House ballroom; construction to continue The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to continue construction of a $400 million ballroom complex at the White House, overturning a lower-court order that had halted above-ground work while a legal challenge against the project proceeds.The 5-4 decision […]
Lucknow: Deployed on traffic duty on Sitapur Road, traffic constable Naveen Chaudhary chased a man who had just slapped a woman and snatched her mangalsutra and moments later took a brick blow to his face from the miscreant.Undeterred by the pain of the injury, Chaudhary did not let go of the chain-snatcher.Other policemen reached to […]
Pakistan head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed and captain Babar Azam (AFP Photo) Pakistan have responded to their crushing 194-run defeat to England at Lord’s with a sweeping mid-tour overhaul, releasing seven players and making changes to the red-ball coaching staff ahead of the third Test at Edgbaston.The Pakistan Cricket Board announced the changes on Monday after […]
CM Suvendu Adhikari at Nandigram on Monday Kaushik Pradhan & Suman Mandal | tnnKolkata/Nandigram: With an eye on the upcoming assembly bypoll in Nandigram, CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced projects worth Rs 300 crore for the constituency he recently vacated and launched a sharp political attack on his predecessor, Mamata Banerjee.Adhikari, who retained the […]
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Water Resources Rajiv Pratap Rudy conducting a meeting at Gempark hotel in Udhagamandalam on Monday. | Photo Credit: M. SATHYAMOORTHY The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources held a meeting to discuss Tamil Nadu’s water resources in Udhagamandalam on Monday (August 31). A press release from the district administration […]
