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Govt orders action as Cuddalore CEO seeks breakfast funds (Representative image) CHENNAI: The school education department has announced departmental disciplinary action against officials from Cuddalore for asking headmasters to spend out of their pockets to maintain the kitchen and storage and ensure drinking water facilities ahead of extension of the breakfast scheme on Sept 17.In…

AI Image Used For Representational Purpose Only Madras-based hotelier Giacomo D’Angelis built his own aircraft and tested it at Pallavaram. The Italian-born confectioner and hotelier had become interested in aviation after Louis Blériot’s 1909 flight across the English Channel and decided to build a machine of his own. D’Angelis had arrived in Madras in 1880…

Vijay will attend the fifth round of the 2026 championship CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay is set to wave the ceremonial green flag at the Michelin Le Mans Cup race at Silverstone in the UK on Saturday.Vijay will attend the fifth round of the 2026 championship as a special guest and is…

Chennai: District forest officials on Friday issued eviction notices to 102 encroachers residing in Dr Ambedkar Nagar, one of the five localities encroaching on Pallikaranai marshland. The squatters have been given 15 days to vacate the area and move to TNUHDB tenements in Semmenchery and Perumbakkam.A team from the Chennai district forest office, accompanied by…

Chennai: After a month-long delay in releasing part 1 of mathematics and social science textbooks, CBSE Class IX students are made to suffer again as the NCERT is yet to distribute part 2 books for these subjects. The books should have been in by Aug.“Every year, a particular book is revised, and a particular class…

Chennai: Draped in Madras checks, wearing long necklaces, adorning their hair with ‘savari’ and flowers. A group of women sits under a tree in the evening as they sip coffee from a davara and tumbler. They chat away till the coffee goes cold.Several decades later, their way of life has become aesthetics. “We see Madras…

Solomon Pappaiah passed away at 90 in Madurai Throughout his life, even when he stood on stages created by the privileged, Solomon Pappaiah’s words were directed towards those who were struggling, had nothing. Ayya spoke for them. He was their voice.The pattimandram — Tamil legal-style debate forum taken to the streets by Kundrakudi Adigalar —…

Chennai: Arumbakkam may soon get more shopping options and office space as Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) plans to construct a standalone seven-storey building near the Phase-1 station. The locality will join a growing list of areas such as Alandur, Saidapet and Ekkattuthangal where CMRL has either built or planned standalone commercial properties.The complex, integrated…

Solomon Pappaiah in ‘Sivaji – The Boss’ Chennai: For generations of Tamil audiences, Solomon Pappaiah’s booming yet genial voice, effortless Madurai dialect, quick wit and ability to turn an argument into entertainment made him virtually synonymous with pattimandram. Cinema, however, discovered something else in him: Pappaiah did not have to become an actor to hold…

Chennai: An elderly man hacked a 29-year-old man on the head with a sickle following a drunken brawl near Thimmavaram in Chengalpet. The victim is receiving treatment at a hospital and his condition is said to be critical.Police said Balaji of Thimmavaram, who worked at a private factory in Sriperumbudur, was returning home on a…