A recent interview with Shoba Chandrasekhar has brought back fond memories of the late Vijayakanth, with the veteran actress recalling both his personal warmth and his soft spot for actor Vijay. Vijayakanth, remembered as much for his off-screen generosity as his on-screen stardom, reportedly went out of his way to support several people in the…
H1N1 accounts for nearly 98% of Influenza A cases currently detected in India NEW DELHI: H1N1 infections are rising across the country, but there is no cause for panic as the virus circulating is the familiar H1N1 pdm09 strain that has become a seasonal influenza virus, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Dr…
Sri Lanka’s Sonal Dinusha, assisted by a support staff member, on the third day of the second test match between India and Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, in Colombo on Tuesday. (ANI) TimesofIndia.com in Colombo: The setting during the final hour resembled that of the second day. The sky suddenly darkened, and…
Image Courtesy: The Washington Post A family heirloom that had survived a dangerous journey out of the then-Soviet Union nearly a century ago ended up at the bottom of a New York garbage pile. For Victor, 45, letting it disappear was not an option. His wife Susanna had accidentally thrown two rings into the trash…
Rukmini Vasanth has steadily built a name for herself in South Indian cinema, and her role in ‘Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups’ alongside Yash and a stacked ensemble cast has now pushed her into the national spotlight. But at the film’s pre-release event in Chennai, it wasn’t the scale of the project that stood…
During the meeting on “crime against children”, Congress MP Ajay Maken submitted a letter seeking a discussion on the alleged use of pellet guns and lathicharge against students during the Jantar Mantar protest NEW DELHI: Opposition MPs on Tuesday clashed with ruling party members during a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on home affairs…
Yan Xiaonan has spent more than a year away from the UFC. She returns on Saturday in Shanghai as the No. 4-ranked women’s strawweight, taking on No. 14 Denise Gomes in the co-main event.There is plenty around the fight for Yan to think about. She is 37, has been out of action since April 2025…
The flooding started in 2008, and by 2014 the former mine had filled with about 70.5 billion liters of water, forming a lake 309 hectares in area and a maximum of 75 meters deep. Eventually the lake was opened for public recreation. What does it take to give a landscape carved by decades of coal…
Roger Federer has made it clear that fans should not expect to see him return to professional tennis.The 20-time Grand Slam champion, who retired in 2022, is set to play an exhibition match at the US Open but said his appearance in New York is purely for fun and not the start of a comeback.Asked…
Five labourers from Pakistan’s Punjab province were shot dead at a construction site in Balochistan’s Pishin district, a provincial government official said Tuesday, according to news agency PTI.The labourers were killed by unidentified gunmen in Saranan town on Monday morning, Balochistan government spokesperson Shahid Rind said. Their bodies were sent to their hometowns in Punjab…