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People buying school accessories at a shop at Broadway in the city on May 30, 2026. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The school market is witnessing a mixed response as traders rue the loss of business to malls and e-commerce players ahead of the start of the academic year. To make matters worse, the rest…
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Image used for representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images Going hard over the corruption, the Bihar government on Saturday (May 30, 2026) suspended two IAS officers in connection with the tender scam allegedly executed by a contractor, Rishu Ranjan Sinha alias Rishu Shree. Following a raid by the Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) at the premises…
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Teynampet police detained 22 persons for allegedly engaging in illegal gambling involving huge sums of money at a private hotel in Teynampet. The police said the case was registered at Teynampet Police Station under the Tamil Nadu Gaming Act and relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Acting on specific information that gambling was…
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A functionary of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) was expelled from the party and stripped of all posts after he was accused of assaulting an excavator operator during a dispute at a demolition site in New Perungalathur near Tambaram. The Peerkankaranai police received a complaint and launched an inquiry into the incident. The incident reportedly…
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An iPhone, worth around ₹1.16 lakh, that went missing at Meenambakkam Airport was traced within a few hours and handed back to its owner. Kakarla Manish, 28, son of Narayana Rao, a resident of Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, misplaced his iPhone at Chennai Airport on May 29 night. Following this, Manish lodged a complaint with the…
Doctors at SRM Prime Hospital removed a massive 2.8 kg spleen from a 23-year-old woman from Bihar through a complex laparoscopic-assisted splenectomy, a minimally invasive surgical procedure. The patient also had non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis, a condition in which the blood vessels supplying the liver become scarred and narrowed without actual liver cirrhosis, along with hypersplenism,…
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As on Saturday, the storage of the dam was about 41 tmcft against the capacity of 93.47 tmcft. | Photo Credit: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN The probability of the Mettur dam getting opened on the scheduled date of June 12 appears to be remote, in view of the poor storage and the forecast of a poor…
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Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan at the review meeting held at the Erode Collectorate on Saturday. | Photo Credit: M. GOVARTHAN Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management K.A. Sengottaiyan on Saturday said the implementation of the Singappen initiative would gather pace once the required officials were appointed and administrative arrangements were in place. The Minister, along with…
Rescue operation under way after a building collapsed at Saket area, in New Delhi on May 30, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI At least eight persons were rescued after a multi-storeyed building collapsed in Saket on Saturday (May 30, 2026) evening. The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) officials received a call at 7.45 p.m. Five fire…
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In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure no American first strike on China’s nuclear arsenal could reliably knock out Beijing’s ability to hit back. China’s nuclear missiles can already reach any city in the United States. Now, satellite images reviewed by…
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