New Union minister L Murugan's declaration of Kongu Nadu as his native place, instead of Tamil Nadu, may be part of a grand BJP strategy to create new states out of existing ones, particularly those that have anti-BJP governments, mulls N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Our preparation is based on ICMR projections, whatever preparations we have to make.' 'If they project around 70,000 is the maximum number of hospital cases by mid-May or May 30, we are preparing accordingly -- how many people will need hospitalisation.'
Companies should focus on creating customer experiences for building brands rather than concentrating on products and services, a management expert said in Chennai.
DIG A P Muhammad Ali, Assistant Commissioner of Police Shankar and LIC's administrative official Ramaswamy were among those arrested.
Promising a corruption free, honest and transparent administration in Tamil Nadu, the party said it would work for up-gradation of economic and social status of Tamils
Shyam Benegal, Shobhana Bhartia and Kapila Vatsayan come in place of Fali S Nariman, Lata Mangeshkar and Cho Ramaswamy.
'Whatever good he did, all his achievements were overshadowed by the perception of corruption and other things.'
A talented Central Zone team led by Piyush Chawla is aiming to come out firing all cylinders when it squares off with an equally combative South Zone side in the final of the Duleep Trophy, starting in New Delhi, on Wednesday.
Abhijeet Gupta scored a thumping victory over Woman Grandmaster Aarthie Ramaswamy at the Dubai Chess Open
The summons has been issued in connection with a case registered against columnist S Gurumurthy for misleading the investigation.
The move comes at a time when the traditional software maintenance and support works, once the bread and butter for export-driven IT services business, are slowly drying up.
AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa is likely to make her first public appearance on Friday for a scheduled MLAs meet in Chennai, party officials said.
Stalin owes his victory this time, like in 2019, to the hate-campaign of the local Hindutva forces, which kept haranguing him, and even his dead father, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
While critics and protestors have multifarious arguments to offer, the defence of CAA has been uni-dimensional and uni-focussed as has been the case with most policies of the Modi government and the political positions of his party. But to be drawn into an issue that has assumed more than local and national dimensions, Rajini has knowingly or otherwise, taken the plunge and in favour of the BJP -- or, so it has come to be seen, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Everyone has prejudged him, and they have already convicted the Shankaracharya. The press has convicted him. The politicians have convicted him,' says Cho Ramaswamy.
Ganguly's current nine-month stint will get an extension if the BCCI dilutes the specific reform on tenure-cap as mandated by the SC-appointed Lodha Committee.
Political stalwarts Murli Manohar Joshi, Sharad Pawar and former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma, cricketer Virat Kohli and Carnatic musician K J Yesudas were among the 89 people who were selected for this year's Padma awards.
The woman Grandmaster achieved the norm after splitting points with Dinesh Kumar Sharma in the ninth round of the Parsvanath International Chess Championship.
The less-fancied Maharashtra girl beat the defending champion in the ninth round of the National Women's chess championship.
An interview with Sridhar Ramaswamy,Senior vice-president, ads and commerce, Google.
In this interview with Shobha Warrier, Cho Ramaswamy recalls the Emergency days, most of the time satirically.
Veteran journalist Cho Ramaswamy says the Tamil Nadu police wouldn't have acted without solid evidence against the seer.
Joint leaders Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan and Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan split points in the sixth round of the Parsvanath International Chess tournament.
If everybody is 'working' from home, then how has TV consumption gone up? Who is making all that gourmet food being posted on social media?
Indians have always been there working for the company.
The Indian ace shares the top place with China's Gu Xiaobing after the third round in the Asian women's chess championship.
Ajay Ramaswami had it easy against Germany's Peter Mayer-Tischer, while former Davis Cupper Vishal Uppal accounted for Alexandra Simon of Romania in the ITF Satellite tournament.
'Talvar belongs to Irrfan Khan, who plays the chief investigating officer. With each new film, this very fine actor continues to surprise us and delight us.'
Pakistan women cricket team's head coach New Zealander Mark Coles has resigned on Thursday, months before the ICC World T20 in Australia.
In Karunanidhi's passing the real loser is Tamil Nadu and Tamil language. So far there is no one on the horizon to fill the vacuum left behind by him, says R Rajagopalan.
The reigning Asian women's champion beat Tania Sachdev to lead the field in the Nat. women's 'A' chess championship.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa won the R K Nagar by-polls by over 1.5 lakh votes on Tuesday. According to reports, Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah congratulated her on the victory.
The two Grandmasters have 3.5 points each after four rounds in the National 'A' men's chess championship.
The Englishman won the singles and doubles titles in the ITF Satellite tournament in Mumbai.
Mankad had a tough time beating Ajay Ramaswami while the Dutchman easily beat Vinod Sridhar in the semi-finals of the ITF Futures tournament.
