Representative Image CHENNAI: French shoe brand Kickers is entering the Indian retail market. Kothari Industrial Corporation (KICL), which has signed an MoU with the French company Royer Group which manufactures Kickers, will set up the brand’s first fashion store in the country in Chennai soon. While this marks KICL’s direct entry into the retail segment…
NEW DELHI: Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik responded to a recent tweet by Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, showing BJD leader VK Pandian grabbing Naveen Patnaik’s trembling hand and trying to hide it from public view.The 77-year-old leader who’s hands have been visibly trembling for at least five years responded to the viral video…
TIRUPATI/COIMBATORE/HYDERABAD: NIA on Tuesday arrested a techie from Andhra Pradesh‘s Anantapur district and a former convict who was in transit in Telangana in connection with the Rameshwaram cafe blast in Bengaluru on March 1. The probe agency also searched houses of two doctors in Coimbatore.NIA sleuths searched the residence of a retired principal in Rayadurgam…
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VIRUDHUNAGAR: A mahila court in Tamil Nadu’s Srivilliputhur on Tuesday sentenced assistant professor Nirmala Devi to 10 years imprisonment for luring college girl students to offer sexual favours to senior officials.Mahila court sessions judge T Bagavathiammal imposed a fine of Rs 2.45 lakh on Nirmala Devi.On Monday, the court convicted Nirmala Devi while acquitting two…
MADURAI: Six years after a damning audio clip where she was heard luring college girls to do sexual favours for ‘senior officers’, Nirmala Devi, who was assistant professor then, was found guilty of the offence and convicted by Srivilliputhur mahila court on Monday. The court will pronounce the quantum of sentence on Tuesday.Judge T Bagavathiammal,…
NEW DELHI: Phase one of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls ended on Friday, with 62.37 per cent being the total voter turnout. The voters turned up to exercise their franchise in sweltering heat in 21 states and Union territories, including the big ones like Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Tamil Nadu.The election, which kicked…
NEW DELHI: All 39 seats of Tamil Nadu will be going to the polls on April 19 in the first phase of the mammoth seven-phase 2024 Lok Sabha elections that will conclude with the results being declared on June 4. The BJP is hoping to make major headway in a state that has never given…
Tamil Nadu will aggressively pitch itself as a manufacturing site for Tesla Inc. as speculation builds about the US company’s planned investments ahead of billionaire Elon Musk’s visit.“Tamil Nadu will be pitching for all opportunities of electric vehicle manufacturing from all global car majors,” T. R. B Rajaa, the state’s minister for industries said, when…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Modi’s relentless attack against the DMK government over alleged corruption charges has evoked a unique poster campaign in Tamil Nadu. Posters titled ‘Ji Pay,’ bearing the face of the Prime Minister, have appeared in several districts of the state.The posters have a barcode that encouraged people to ‘scan the code and…
