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Conference room of Namakkal Kavignar Maligai where the new sea-view office is set to come CHENNAI: Chennai-based Raasi Builders has emerged as the lowest bidder in all three tenders floated by the public works department for renovating chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s sea-facing office at Namakkal Kavignar Maligai. Four contractors, including Raasi Builders, took part…
A court rejected MLA Suresh Gowda’s daughter Aishwarya’s bail plea in the alleged assault of a woman PSI during temple duty MANDYA: III additional district and sessions court at Srirangapatna has rejected the bail petition of Aishwarya, daughter of Tumakuru Rural MLA Suresh Gowda of BJP.She has been accused of slapping, abusing and obstructing a…
Former NASA astronaut Vance Brand spent decades exploring space and commanding shuttle missions, but a 40-acre piece of land along the eastern boundary of Rocky Mountain National Park remains one of his most lasting contributions on Earth. The story began in 1967, when Brand bought 160 acres of land next to the national park for…
Image: Left/Jason Kempin/Right/Wikipedia For 35 years, bald eagles had a special place at Dollywood, where the American Eagle Foundation’s Eagle Mountain Sanctuary introduced generations of visitors to one of America’s most recognisable birds. The long-running Dollywood partnership, associated with Dolly Parton’s Tennessee theme park, combined wildlife education with hands-on conservation work and helped bring the…
Deep in the Caxiuanã National Forest in northern Brazil, a patch of rainforest the size of a football pitch tells the story of what a drier Amazon might look like. Since 2002, scientists have suspended nearly 6,000 transparent plastic panels above one hectare of pristine forest, diverting roughly half the rainfall away from the soil…
As much as humans love to tout the AI boom and tech developments, it comes with a heavy hand of pros and cons. What we create and advance is used correctly by a set of people and adversely by others, creating a for-and-against game that involves the entire society at large. While others create a…
File photo: Union minister Nitin Gadkari NEW DELHI: Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari Wednesday urged all state govts to allow bike taxis, saying it could give employment to eight crore people.During the launch of a pilot programme — “Suraksha” — for on-the-spot free medical diagnosis and counselling for 10 lakh drivers, construction and high-risk…
Brittany Mahomes and Patrick Mahomes (Image via Getty) Brittany Mahomes is once again facing online criticism, but the controversy making the rounds is not new. The complaint at the center of the discussion was reported by MARCA in May 2026, months before the latest wave of attention. Social media users revisited the story and debated…
Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton.(Image via Getty Images) A viral social media post is making a striking claim about Lewis Hamilton and Kim Kardashian, but the quote attached to it does not appear to be genuine. The post alleges that Hamilton said Kardashian pays for everything in their relationship and would continue doing so if…
The debate over the Jauhar sequence in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Padmaavat’ has resurfaced after Swara Bhasker questioned its depiction. Prakash Kapadia, who co-wrote the period drama with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, has now defended the filmmakers’ approach.Prakash Kapadia said the team based the film on research and historical sources. He maintained that the controversial sequence reflected…
