Day: August 9, 2018

Chennai: The Mylapore Trio, Sugathan and members of Sri Sumukhi Rajasekharan Memorial Foundation celebrated the 150th month Kala Poshakam programme in the city recently.

Staging a drama is not so easy as before. It is a costly affair now. Remuneration for artistes especially women is high. We have to pay them for rehearsals also unlike before. We cannot have even a single rehearsal with sets at halls now.

Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress leader Oommen Chandy has alleged that the BJP was politicising the National Register of Citizens (NRC) issue in Assam, instead of addressing the anxiety expressed by the Opposition over the list.

Kochi: The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) stopped the arrival operations today in view of possible inundation in the airport area following a rising water level in the Periyar river.

This ‘sandwich shop’ that is right next to a popular mall here has grown to become a brand over the years.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today allowed mining major Vedanta to access the administrative unit inside its Sterlite copper plant at Thoothukudi in Tamilnadu.

M Karunanidhi used the medium of films and his command over Tamil language to reach out to the people and promote the Dravidian ideology, according to two books related to the late DMK patriarch.

Few stated that the road’s condition worsened after a spell of rain last week and the pits eventually filled up with water, thus making commuting risky.

He was returning to the country after attending the council meeting and landed in Bengaluru on Wednesday morning. His outfit had reportedly organised a programme in Bengaluru to highlight the human rights violation in the police firing in Thoothukudi.

Thiruvananthapuram: Heavy rains in Kerala today claimed 20 lives, leaving a trail of destruction across the southern state.