Month: September 2026

Centre for Mental Health, Social care and Livelihoods launched

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Centre for Mental Health, Social care and Livelihoods launched

Patron of The Banyan’s centre Deanna Jejeebhoy during the inauguration held at Savera hotel on Sunday. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM In an effort to extend social support and care to persons with mental illness, Chennai-based NGO The Banyan, Aaladamara Foundation, and the Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM) inaugurated the Centre…

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Work on storm-water drain near Virugambakkam canal to be completed in 2 weeks

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Work on storm-water drain near Virugambakkam canal to be completed in 2 weeks

The storm-water drain work on Kaliyamman Koil Street, at a point where it joins the Virugambakkam canal, will be completed within two weeks, Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) Commissioner G.S. Sameeran said during an inspection on Sunday. Mr. Sameeran inspected the development works under way at the Virugambakkam canal in Kodambakkam zone at an estimated cost…

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From cleaning rest rooms to winning two Asian Games golds — the rise of Aslam Inamdar

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From cleaning rest rooms to winning two Asian Games golds — the rise of Aslam Inamdar

There was a moment in the second half of the Asian Games kabaddi gold-medal match against Iran when Aslam Inamdar made a daring raid deep into the opposition half. His teammate Pawan Sehrawat groaned inwardly as he did so. India’s lead was narrow. Iran was still in the contest. It was a risk that could…

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Opposition refuses to be part of the all-party delegation to Centre over drought relief

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Opposition refuses to be part of the all-party delegation to Centre over drought relief

The Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly accuses the Congress government of lacking commitment to help the drought-hit farmers in Karnataka. | Photo Credit: S.K. Dinesh The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)) have refused to be part of the proposed all-party delegation planned by the Karnataka government to meet…

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Brain mapping of students and teachers uncovers when learning happens best

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Brain mapping of students and teachers uncovers when learning happens best

To help us retain the information about the Second World War, Rani Miss, our History teacher, divided the class into three groups. A few students were the Axis powers, another set was the Allied powers, and the rest were bodies like the League of Nations and the UN. A History class that could have been…

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Science

Bank unions defer three-day nationwide strike after ‘understandings reached’ with IBA

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Bank unions defer three-day nationwide strike after ‘understandings reached’ with IBA

Bank staff wear black dress during their duty in a bank as, on government order, banks open on Sunday for the first time in 3 days on the Eve of 3 days National Bank strike, in Kolkata on September 27 | Photo Credit: ANI The United Forum of Bank Unions (UBFU) called off the proposed…

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Business

How India should recruit and train higher education faculty for the AI era

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How India should recruit and train higher education faculty for the AI era

Fixing higher education requires completely redesigning how we recruit, train, and support faculty, while overhauling the legacy administrative and disciplinary protocols that govern our campuses. Ask the toppers of any graduating class what they want to do next- university teaching rarely tops the list. The reason is simple: teaching is not perceived as a competitive,…

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Trounce TVK candidate for ‘treachery’: AIADMK general secretary appeals to Dharapuram electorate

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Trounce TVK candidate for ‘treachery’: AIADMK general secretary appeals to Dharapuram electorate

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami campaigned for party candidate for Dharapuram Assembly seat K. Banumathy at Kannivadi in Tiruppur district on Sunday. AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday called upon the electorate in Dharapuram (SC) Assembly Constituency to trounce the TVK candidate Sathyabama in the upcoming bypoll, describing her “defection” (from AIADMK)…

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Strikes kill 6 in Ukraine, 1 in Russia after Moscow rejects German calls to de-escalate

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Strikes kill 6 in Ukraine, 1 in Russia after Moscow rejects German calls to de-escalate

Smoke rises in the city following a Russian jet-powered drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 27, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes overnight and on Sunday (September 27, 2026), killing at least six people in Ukraine and one in Russia, officials said, hours after Moscow…

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World

Iran stands firm on Hormuz plan after U.S. rejection

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Iran stands firm on Hormuz plan after U.S. rejection

Iran stood firm Sunday (September 27, 2026) on its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s rejection of the proposal, leaving the West Asia war locked in a stalemate. The waterway is key to the world’s energy supply and is now central to the conflict between Washington and Tehran, which…

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