Chennai: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday accused chief minister C Joseph Vijay-led TVK govt of failing to retain investor confidence after reports suggested that South Korean shipbuilding major Hyundai had held investment talks with the Andhra Pradesh govt, raising concerns over the fate of its proposed ₹38,000 crore investment in the state.EPS…
Gandhinagar: The state govt has a launched large-scale relief and restoration drive in Surat after the floods, officials said on Friday. Deputy chief minister Harsh Sanghavi chaired an emergency high-level review meeting late on Thursday night at the Surat collector’s office. The meeting was attended by all district coordination officers, senior officials of the Surat…
Kolkata: Birbhum strongman Anubrata Mondal, one of Mamata Banerjee’s close confidants, may join the Ritabrata Banerjee-led rebel camp, MLAs of the camp indicated on Friday.“I have spoken to Mondal at least 30 times since May 4,” Ritabrata said while speaking to reporters on day one of the bloc’s national working committee meeting at a private…
Pune: The civic body’s drive to pick up sterilised community dogs from roads along the palkhi procession route has drawn criticism from animal welfare volunteers, who questioned the legality and necessity of such exercises, which they said were increasingly being undertaken before major public events and VIP visits.Bhagyendra Chudasama, an animal welfare volunteer, said rounding…
TNNColva: Colva police arrested Isidoreo Souza of Betalbatim on Friday evening under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, for allegedly brutally assaulting his 83-year-old father.Isidoreo’s wife, Irene Gonsalves, has also been booked for the same offence but was not arrested at…
MUMBAI: Aggregate deposits with banks rose to Rs 265.4 lakh crore as on June 30, 2026, with the system recording a sharp fortnightly increase of about Rs 7 lakh crore, or 2.7%, driven by a balanced rise across both demand and time deposits. The last fortnight surge has taken the year-on-year deposit growth for Q1FY27…
Argentina head coach Lionel Scaloni (AP Photo) Argentina head coach Lionel Scaloni has rejected suggestions that FIFA is favouring the defending champions at the ongoing FIFA World Cup, insisting that such allegations are nothing new and instead serve as extra motivation for his players. Speaking ahead of Argentina’s quarter-final clash against Switzerland on Sunday, Scaloni…
Award winning Tamil filmmaker and cinematographer R Chezhiyan passed away at the age of 57 on Friday. His death left a deep shock in the Tamil film industry where multiple stars and fans expressed their grief upon learning the news. Actor Vijay Sethupathi mourned the loss of Chezhiyan. Vijay Sethupathi’s post Vijay Sethupathi took to…
Sotheby’s auctioneer overseeing the bidding for Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019) at Sotheby’s on November 20, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby’s In a very exclusive room far far away, a very ordinary looking wooden gavel comes down on an equally ordinary looking rostrum and somehow millions of dollars have transpired within that quarter of a second.At…
Imagine placing a flat piece of plastic on a warm surface and watching it fold itself into a fully functional robot without human hands, motors or complex assembly. It may sound like science fiction, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated exactly that with a tiny, origami-inspired robot designed to assemble itself…
