NHAI starts work to raise height of retaining walls on bridges along Chennai-Bengaluru NH

Collector V.R. Subbulaxmi at the accident spot on the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has started the work to increase the height of the retaining wall of road over bridges and elevated corridors on the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH 44) between Walajah toll gate in…

The Great Indian Gold Rush: Households gained $700 billion from their gold buying spree in last 15 years

When John Pierpont Morgan, Founder of the world’s largest bank by market capitalisation JP Morgan & Co, said ‘Gold is money. Everything else is credit’, little would he have known that no one would come to understood this better than ‘Indian housewives.’ In a recent post on X, veteran banker Uday Kotak lauded ‘Indian housewife’…

T. Veena rejects media reports about her SFIO statement

  IT entrepreneur and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter, T. Veena, has rebutted media reports that alleged she had admitted to the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFI) that her company, Exalogic Solutions, had received a significant retaining fee and consultant charge from the CMRL, a private mining firm without providing any tangible software service.  In…

HC frowns upon top govt. officials for resisting steps taken by its retired judge to fill up Pachaiyappa’s college faculty vacancies

The Madras High Court has decided to examine whether top officials of the State government had committed criminal contempt of court by resisting the step taken by its retired judge V. Parthiban, who had been appointed as an Interim Administrator of Pachaiyappa’s Trust, to fill up 132 faculty vacancies in six colleges run by the…

World bids farewell to Pope who told people to ‘build bridges, not walls’

Watch: Key moments from the funeral of Pope Francis Pope Francis has been buried in Rome after a funeral ceremony and procession attended by hundreds of thousands of people and many heads of state. The first South American pontiff passed away on Monday aged 88, marking the end of a 12-year pontificate. As the Italian…

Udhayanidhi launches logo, website for Startup Summit

Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Saturday launched the logo and website for “Tamil Nadu Global Startup Summit 2025” to be organised by StartupTN at Coimbatore. T.M. Anbarasan, Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Atul Anand, Additional Chief Secretary, MSME Department, and Sivarajah Ramanathan, Mission Director and Chief Executive Officer of StartupTN, were present…

HUL, Nestle India, Britannia, Godrej Consumer Products, Marico, Dabur, Emami, Jyothy Labs et al: What’s weighing on the FMCG sector and is demand recovery in sight?

While globally, FMCG/ consumer non-discretionary sectors are viewed as defensive plays, in India, for over a decade, they also served as aggressive growth bets. Why not, when GDP was growing consistently in mid- to high-single digits pulling up millions of people out of poverty and pushing them into the consumption class! On top of this,…

The Hindu Education Plus Career Counselling kicks off in Bengaluru, gets massive response

The 23rd edition of The Hindu Education Plus-Career Counselling-2025 commenced on Saturday at NMKRV College, Mangala Mantapa auditorium, Bengaluru, and received a massive response from students and parents. Around 40 higher education institutions, including private medical and engineering colleges, banks, and around 1,200 students and parents participated in the event. It facilitated the students and…