Happy Pongal 2026! As the sun turns northward and ushers in the blessed month of Thai, homes fill with the scent of newly harvested rice and the comforting presence of family. Pongal is more than a ...

Halfway through a decade of post-Covid golf prosperity, the verdict on 2025 is in: Golf design in the United States is strong and getting stronger. Judging by the courses that opened this year, ...

SRM School of Law, a part of SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), launched a Master’s programme in Public Policy on Thursday (January 8, 2026). The course has an interdisciplinary ...

CHENNAI: The University of Madras has begun offering a clinical genomics week-long elective certificate course to final-year MBBS students of Madras Medical College (MMC). The varsity’s first such ...

In the gritty underbelly of crisscrossing highways, Tacoma’s coffee pot-shaped dive bar has lost its color — temporarily — as the owner, just a few years into his stewardship of the century-old icon, ...

The Trump administration is terminating a nonprofit’s management of three public Washington, DC, golf courses, in what may be the latest effort to put President Donald Trump’s stamp on local ...

Since the OTT boom during the COVID-19 pandemic, film industry pundits have defined the distinction between a small or medium-budget film and a big-ticket film to mostly align with what’s now ...

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief electoral officer Archana Patnaik on Friday said the draft electoral roll, after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), for the state now includes 5,43,76,755 voters, ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...

Tamil Nadu delivered a standout economic performance in 2024–25; its well-balanced growth model translated into a sustained surge in gross state domestic product (GSDP). A pickup across sectors ...

Tamil Nadu, Chennai Holiday 2026: The Tamil Nadu government has already declared its public holidays 2026 in Chennai, Vellore, Madurai, Coimbatore, Erode and other regions. The state government ...