Heavy rains accompanied by high velocity winds on Monday pounded Chennai and coastal districts of north Tamil Nadu due to severe cyclonic storm "Vardah" which made landfall around 3pm, uprooting hundreds of trees, disrupting land and air transport and throwing normal life out of gear.
Rohan Bopanna and Saketh Myneni lost the do-or-die doubles rubber against Serbia as India conceded an unassailable 0-3 lead to lose the Davis World Group Play-off tie, in Kraljevo, Serbia on Saturday.
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Ramkumar Ramanathan's good run at the Chennai Open continued as he combined with compatriot N Sriram Balaji to knock out fourth seeded Kiwi pair of Artem Sitak and Marcus Daniel on Wednesday and storm into the doubles quarter-finals.
Bopanna also in reserves while four single specialists named in squad
Images from Wednesday's IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Pune Warriors in Ranchi.
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The fire department said they received a call around 4.23 am about a fire in the factory at Udoh Nagar area after which seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot, the official said.
Gautam Gambhir looked to have uttered an expletive and his Bangalore counterpart was infuriated.
Balaji R Venkatraman, who is seeking re-election to the Evergreen Elementary School District board in San Jose, California, says school election is not about politics, it's about schoolchildren.
Ekta Kapoor's new TV show Jodha Akbar premieres on Zee TV on June 18.
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Leander Paes might team up with Ramkumar Ramnathan instead of Sumit Nagal in this month's Asian Games after captain Zeeshan Ali said he will consider the ATP World Tour finalist's request to pair up with the senior pro.
The actress will kick off Ekta Kapoor's new TV series, Ek Thi Naayka, this weekend.
Sandeep Sharma scalped three crucial wickets as Kings XI Punjab produced a disciplined bowling display to compensate for their batting failure and notch up a comfortable 23-run victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in an IPL match in Abu Dhabi.
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Vidarbha earned three valuable points thanks to the significant contribution made by their lower middle-order as they went past Tamil Nadu's first innings score on the final day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match.
Tamil film Vadacurry is a commendable effort, says S Saraswathi.
The actor prepares for the release for his next film, Ek Thi Daayan, releasing this Friday.
Kolkata Knight Rider's Sunil Narine took the first hat-trick of the current edition against Kings XI Punjab at Mohali on Tuesday.
Davis Cupper Vishnu Vardhan crashed out of the men's singles pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 CCI-ITF men's Futures Tennis tournament in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Mouli Ganguly speaks about her episode in the television series Ek Thi Naayika
Indian tennis players, including Vishnu Vardhan and Sanam Singh, have been granted wild card entries into the doubles draw of the Chennai Open, the organisers announced in Chennai.
India's state-owned institutes have literally been forced to embrace technologies to go digital - however reluctantly. Till the museum reopen, the magic mantra has been "online", "cyber", "virtual" - a transition that has been less smooth for most art institutions than one might have hoped. The first of a four-part series, Kishore Singh turns the gaze to some of India's leading art institutions to see how they are keeping the show going.
Ekta Kapoor and Vishal Bhardwaj launch their new show, Ek Thhi Naayka.
India will experiment with different field settings to compensate for their bowling deficiencies at the Twenty20 World Cup, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.
In a throwback to the Gary Kirsten days when the then India coach would always help Sachin Tendulkar with throwdowns, the Nondescripts Cricket Club (NCC) ground, in Colombo, on Tuesday, witnessed Yuvraj Singh going through the same routine with fielding coach Trevor Penney.
A year after test-marketing its traditional snacks in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai-based Parle Products is set to launch the product in the west and the north of the country.
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The Chennai Super Kings squad for the Champions League T20 in South Africa.
During the hearing, the 92-year-old senior lawyer had told the apex court that it must do 'full and complete justice' in all matters before it and that his last wish before he died was to finish the case.
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Vishnu Vardhan joined the Indian Davis Cup team in Chandigarh on Sunday and said the hosts are familiar with the playing style of the New Zealand squad that touched down for the Asia-Oceania tie starting September 14.
When the doyenne of television decides to party, all her friends make it a point to attend.
