Saurashtra's middle-order batter Sheldon Jackson followed in senior teammate Cheteshwar Pujara's footsteps, completing his century on day two of their Ranji Trophy Group A tie against Rajasthan to guide the defending champions to a 300-plus total in Jaipur on Saturday.
An Enforcement Directorate officer was arrested for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from a a government employee, the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), said on Friday.
Shami has made himself undroppable with his performances against New Zealand and England.
Pacer Mohammed Siraj had reported a 'corrupt approach" to BCCI's Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) from an unknown person, who wanted 'inside news' about his team before Australia arrived in India.
Rulers in New Delhi and their political aides in sensitive states like Tamil Nadu have to be doubly careful not to provoke a situation whose consequences may be much more than visible now to the naked eye, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Well, they have found their home at the AVM Heritage Museum in Vadapalani, Chennai.
Shane Watson butchered Chennai Super Kings bowlers in a sensational batting display as Rajasthan Royals scored a comprehensive five wicket victory in their Indian Premier League match in Jaipur.
'If you keep on irritating the body by allowing all kinds of pollutants to get into it, the body cells are going to get irritated and cancer will come.'
Ayush Badoni sizzled on a gloomy day in Lucknow with a career-best 59 to steal the thunder in the rain-hit match against Chennai Super Kings.
'Since I was held at gunpoint I had no option but to give them the car keys.' 'They took the car and drove away.'
'There were many experts around me,' A Ganesh Nadar discovers at the India-Pakistan hockey game. 'One of them was explaining to his neighbour, that fellow is a good dragger and flicker, that fellow is a penalty corner specialist, that fellow is a penalty specialist, that fellow is a very good defender, etc, freely dispensing with his expert knowledge.'
What the INDIA alliance needs is neither a counter to Modi's tall personality and undiminished charisma nor a counter-narrative to his Hindutva agenda, now centred on the Ayodhya temple consecration on January 22, argues N Sathiya Moorthy.
Maybe, the need for secrecy may have tied the government's hand from sharing details in Parliament. Still, it should consider the need of sharing the utmost within any consultative committee, so that relative secrecy is still maintained. But such a course should involve the prime minister or home minister, as it is much more serious than is being made out to be, argues N Sathiya Moorthy.
DC's fate was sealed when they lost three quick wickets inside the Powerplay.
At least 10 persons were 'reported dead' in a fire that broke out inside a stationary train compartment in Madurai railway station in the wee hours of Saturday, the Southern Railway said, adding a 'gas cylinder illegally' taken in led to the blaze.
Chennaiyin FC beat Tribhuvan Army 3-0 to enter quarter-finals
An army jawan was killed and two others were injured when a Combat Battle Tank hit a building during testing inside a Defence Research and Development Organisation lab in the city.
IMAGES from the IPL match played between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai on Tuesday
Havelock should be your destination for 2024. It is love at every sight!
IMAGES from the ICC World Cup match played between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Chennai on Monday.
Legends Brian Lara and Muttiah Muralitharan plotted the course for Sunrisers Hyderabad, while Sri Lankan great Kumar Sangakkara led the way for Rajasthan Royals.
The body was found with a piece of cloth stuffed inside the mouth.
PHOTOS of the IPL 2023 match between Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday.
A spirited Punjab Kings edged Chennai Super Kings by four wickets in a thrilling finish off the last ball in a high-scoring IPL 2023 match.
While the crowds outside the AIADMK HQ seem to have taken victory for granted, a small crowd out the DMK HQ refuses to concede. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com reports from Chennai.
Sukanya Verma lists everything you can watch on streaming platforms this weekend.
CSK have made it to the last four stage of 12 out of 14 tournaments -- the most by any team in the IPL.
No one imagined that this could happen to Chennai. We were just a happy little town content with our Kollywood and Coffee, but humanity has won over once again, says Pavithra Selvam.
Seven people, including two ambulance drivers were assaulted and 20 men have been arrested and were remanded to judicial custody.
Mahindra & Mahindra, the world's fourth largest tractor maker, has deferred its plan to build a Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion) tractor facility in Chennai on apprehensions that tractor sales may slow, a top company executive has said.
CSK opener Devon Conway is enjoying a dream run with the bat with five half-centuries from six matches in IPL 2023.
John and Tamilarasi had their newborn stolen eight years ago, and lost all hope of ever finding him. Now they have got him back, though not fully. Not yet.
Ajinkya Rahane's contribution can't go unnoticed, taking the catches of Warner and Axar and effecting that brilliant run-out of Marsh -- dismissals that put the game out of DC's reach.
India beat Malaysia 4-3 to win the Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament
'We have to convert our penalty corners successfully and aim at having at least two or three goals through the corner, besides creating the same amount of chances in every quarter.'
Shah Rukh Khan, whose fame and popularity often seems as vast as the universe, is the man of the hour.
A ship carrying aid for victims of war ravaged Sri Lanka, which had anchored off Chennai for more than a fortnight, has been permitted to berth at the Chennai port.
At a time when the BJP's stars are at the top on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls, the Puri-Joshimath Sankaracharyas may have kick-started a row whose efforts might be to divide Hindus, not in the name of castes, but on what passes for greater belief, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Gukesh aims to keep improving after becoming India No 1 without sponsorship support
Wrapped in blue and orange wax paper, it's a familiar sight on the shelves of kirana stores across the country. Given how well travelled and mobile it is - starting its journey in Chennai, then turning to Singapore and now landing in Mexico - you could say it lives up to its name: Modern. Modern Food Enterprises, the company that manufactures and sells the bread in question as well as other bakery products under the "Modern" brand name, has recently been sold to the world's largest baking company, Grupo Bimbo, for an undisclosed amount. This latest transaction is the second change of guard at Modern within five years and third since the government divested the company at the turn of the century. At a time, when the National Democratic Alliance government has decided to privatise, or shut down, public sector enterprises except for those deemed strategic, Modern makes for a promising case study of how divestment led to the brand's growth, both in revenue and reach.
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