MUMBAI: Actress Shruti Haasan, who has been receiving a lot of positive response to her recently released song ‘Inimel’ with director Lokesh Kanagaraj, has started shooting for her next project.

CHENNAI: A dominant Chennai Super Kings came up with a clinical bowling performance after Shivam Dube hammered a 23-ball 51 while Rachin Ravindra and Ruturaj Gaikwad set a frantic pace with a whirlwind 46 each to lay a solid foundation to help them thoroughly outplay Gujarat Titans by 63 runs in Match 7 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Right-handed opening batter Ruturaj Gaikwad will be the new captain of Chennai Super Kings for the 2024 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), taking over the reins from the legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Gaikwad's captaincy was announced on Thursday, a day ahead of CSK's season opener against the Royal Challengers Bangalore at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday.

CHENNAI: Tamilisai Soundararajan, who has resigned as Telengana Governor, as well as Lt Governor of Puducherry, is likely to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as a BJP candidate from Chennai South constituency, Tamil Nadu BJP sources said on Monday.

CHENNAI: A private school in Chennai received a bomb threat by email on Monday and the bomb squad of the Tamil Nadu police was informed.

NEW YORK: US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Rena Bitter, arrived in India to engage with embassy and consulate colleagues in Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi.

NEW DELHI: The Minister of Civil Aviation Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia and Minister of State for Civil Aviation (Gen)Dr V.K Singh (Retd) inaugurated the direct flight between Bhopal and Chennai by Indigo yesterday.

CHENNAI: The cradle of Indian chess Chennai will be the venue for the 44th Chess Olympiad to be held during July-August this year.

CHENNAI: R. Priya, the DMK candidate for the post of Chennai mayor, was elected unopposed on Friday.

CHENNAI: Two persons including a woman were arrested by Customs officials for trying to smuggle in gold into India, said Commissioner of Customs, Chennai International Airport.

NEW DELHI: A Special Chennai Court on Wednesday awarded four years rigorous imprisonment to a person, Haroon Rasheed in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case.

CHENNAI:First-year student of M.A. at Presidency College, Chennai, M. Kumar ended his life by jumping before a double-decker train after sending an audio message to his friends and family, stating that he did not want to live a life given as alms by the students of Pachiyappa's college who used to insult him.

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh witnessed another milestone in organ donation as for the first time a harvested heart from a deceased organ donor in PGIMERA here travelled around 2,500 km for a matching recipient in Chennai.

CHENNAI: The Meteorological Department has issued a red alert in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvalllur, and Chengalpattu districts on heavy rainfall following a low pressure on Wednesday and Thursday.

CHENNAI:Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday launched 200 special medical camps in association with the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC), which will examine and treat people in the Chennai limits.

CHENNAI:  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said it has filed a chargesheet against 18 accused on the allegation of causing a loss of about Rs 45.40 crore to Indian Bank.

DUBAI: Delhi Capitals skipper Rishabh Pant won the toss and elected to bowl first against Chennai Super Kings in Match 50 of IPL 2021 at the Dubai International Stadium here on Monday.

CHENNAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has asked people in Chennai, cheated of their money and property by city-based businessman, Dhanraj Kochar, and his family, to contact it.

CHENNAI: The building of Consortium of Self Financing professional Arts & Science Colleges, Tamilnadu was inaugurated by Dr. Anshu Kataria, President, Federation of Self Financing Technical Institution (FSFTI), All India; President, Punjab Unaided Colleges Association (PUCA) & Chairman, Aryans Group of Colleges, Rajpura Near Chandigarh in Chennai.

CHENNAI:  Police has tracked down a three-year-old son of migrant Bihari labourers from a railway station in Maharashtra just days after he was picked up.

 CHENNAI: Two persons were killed and 14 others injured in a pile-up involving trucks on the Dharmapuri-Salem highway at Thoppur in Tamil Nadu's Salem district in the early hours of Tuesday

CHENNAI: One passenger from Dubai was arrested here for trying to smuggle in 1.38 kg of gold, said the Commissioner of Customs, Chennai International Airport.According to the customs department, one male passenger aged 27 years, flew in from Dubai by Emirates flight EK-544 was intercepted at exit gate and his baggage which were found to be unusually heavy were subjected for detailed examination.

CHENNAI:Slight tremors were felt by people in some parts of the city on Tuesday afternoon due to a quake in the sea.The quake happened in the sea at about 200 km from Chennai coast. The depth was 10 km. The quake measured 5.1 on the Ritcher scale," an official of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) told IANS here on Tuesday.

CHANDIGARH: Having experience of more than eight years, Shankar has played for both I-League and ISL — including Hyderabad FC, FC Pune City, ATK, Bengaluru FC, Kerala Blasters and more. He has been on two I-League winning sides including Bengaluru FC and ATK.

CHENNAI:Foiling an attempt to smuggle gold weighing 8.17 kg, Chennai Air Customs said two passengers from Dubai have been arrested.According to the Customs Department, two passengers arrived from Dubai on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: Petrol price increased by 35 paise per litre for the second day in a row in the national capital to Rs take it to Rs 98.46 a litre.Similarly, the price of the fuel in the other key metros also continued the upward trend with petrol being sold at Rs 99.49 per litre in Chennai.

CHENNAI: The AIADMK party that lost the 2021 Tamil Nadu assembly polls on Tuesday alleged some men vandalising Amma Canteen here

CHENNAI:The Greater Chennai Corporation is planning to open a 500-bed Covid care centre with an Oxygen facility as the pandemic surges in the city. The corporation is looking to open the centre at Guindy trade centre, Kilpauk Indoor stadium or KP Park.

CHENNAI: Amid the spike in coronavirus cases, the Greater Chennai Corporation is mulling to increase Covid testing to 25,000 tests per day.
The Chennai administration is also planning to increase the number of beds to 12,000 in the healthcare facilities for Covid patients.

CHENNAI: Seventy five per cent of the beds in Chennai have been occupied, according to the state health department's report as the Covid cases continue to mount.Tamil Nadu has 79,808 cases with Chennai alone accounting for 28,005 cases on Tuesday evening. The control room which manages the patient flow in government hospitals reported that 75 per cent of the beds were occupied as on Tuesday evening.

CHENNAI: Chennai Air Customs on Saturday said it had seized six kg gold concealed in an Air India flight from Dubai.In a statement the Commissioner of Customs, Chennai International Airport said the Air India flight was rummaged on intelligence input that gold was likely to be smuggled in from Dubai.

CHENNAI: The Chennai corporation has warned shops and other commercial establishments that they will be forced to shut down if Covid norms are violated. The corporation has pressed into service the monitoring committees which it had constituted during the peak of the pandemic last year.

CHENNAI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah campaigned for party's candidate actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar here on Saturday.

KALYANI: RoundGlass Punjab FC recorded their second win on the trot in the I-League by beating Chennai City 2-0 at the Kalyani Municipal Stadium on Saturday. With the result, the Punjab side have now displaced Churchill Brothers from the top of the league table with 14 points in eight games.

CHENNAI:The Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) has invited online bids for leasing four land parcels, cumulatively spanning 7.36 acres, in Chennai for a period of 45 years.

NEW DELHI: The player auction ahead of the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL) edition will take place on February 18 in Chennai.
IPL confirmed the news on their official Twitter handle: "IPL 2021 Player Auction on 18th February. Venue: Chennai."

CHENNAI: Faced with fierce opposition, the Greater Chennai Corporation said on Thursday that it had decided to defer indefinitely the collection of user fee for garbage clearance from property owners.

CHENNAI:Television actress and host VJ Chitra, best known for starring in the Tamil show Pandian Stores, was reportedly found dead at a hotel room in Chennais Nazrathpet on Wednesday.

BENGALURU: Warning consumers to be aware of fake Mi products in the market, Xiaomi India on Monday said counterfeit goods of an estimated worth of Rs 33.3 lakhs were seized from four suppliers in Chennai and three suppliers in Bengaluru.

CHENNAI:Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday afternoon arrived in the Tamil Nadu capital here and was received by Chief Minister K. Palaniswami, Deputy Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam and other ministers.

CHENNAI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit state capital Chennai on Saturday to lay foundation stones of a slew of government projects and to meet BJP state leaders.

CHENNAI: Customs on Tuesday seized smuggled gold weighing 420 grams and worth Rs 22 lakh from two inbound passengers at the Chennai International Airport.

CHENNAI:The Cyber Crime Wing of Chennai police which has registered a case against the retired High Court Justice C.S. Karnan, is yet to serve him with the FIR copy.
The Cyber Crime police has booked a case against me on Tuesday. I came to know about this from the media reports. I have not yet been served a copy of the FIR till this time," Karnan told IANS on Thursday.

CHENNAI:The Cyber Crime Wing of Chennai police has registered a case against the retired High Court Justice C.S. Karnan, said his lawyer.

CHENNAI:The Customs on Wednesday said that it has seized 864 gm gold paste valued at Rs 45.4 lakh from four passengers who arrived by a flight at the Chennai International Airport from Dubai.

NEW DELHI:If Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings don't make the Indian Premier League (IPL) playoffs this season -- they are unlikely to progress as they are languishing at the bottom of points table -- it will be the first time in the 13-year history of the tournament that they would miss out on qualifying for the last four stage.

CHENNAI: The Customs department at Chennai on Tuesday said that it seized gold of 24K purity, valued at Rs 44.4 lakh, from two persons flying in from Dubai.

CHENNAI:The Tamil Nadu state government has decided to reopen retail liquor shops in Chennai from Tuesday onwards after a gap of several months.

NEW DELHI:In a fillip to the 'Make in India' initiative, PC and printer HP Inc on Wednesday said it has started PC manufacturing operations at electronics giant Flex's facility in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.

CHENNAI:Chennai Customs on Tuesday said it had seized a total of 1.48 kg gold from two passengers in the last two days.

CHENNAI: Chennai Customs on Thursday said that it has seized mobile phones worth Rs70 lakh which were imported under the guise of medical accessories.

CHENNAI:Eight Ethiopians were arrested for violating visa norms here, said police.

CHWNNAI:In a rare surgery, surgeons at Saveetha Medical College and Hospitals have removed a whopping 759 cysts from the abdomen of a 29-year-old female patient who was suffering from peritoneal hydatid disease, a senior doctor said.

CHENNAI:  A special 50 wagon train carrying water from Tamil Nadu's Vellore district will reach Chennai on Friday afternoon, a Southern Railway official said.

CHENNAI:  A reporter of a local Tamil news channel was found dead on Thursday along with his wife and mother at their house near here, police said.