Award for best thesis in analytical chemistry

The Prof. K. Girish Kumar Endowment Award for the best thesis in analytical chemistry will be presented to Manish Kumar, postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Biosciences and Technologies for Agriculture, Food and Environment, at the University of Teramo, Italy, here on April 28, 2025. The award was instituted in honour of Prof. Girish Kumar, former head…

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…