Four Indian companies, including two of the country’s biggest IT firms, TCS and Infosys, have been named among the world’s 100 biggest technology providers to the global financial services industry. Tata Consultancy Services has also emerged as the first Indian firm to be named among the top 10 in the annual FinTech 100 list of […]

Chennai is expected to join the elite club of Indian cities like Kolkata and Delhi, which have a thriving metro rail system. The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday announced that it would implement the Metro Rail project at an estimated cost of Rs 9,757 crore. It is expected to find a lasting solution to the […]

Private companies’ ambition to modernise the Chennai airport on the lines of similar projects in Delhi and Mumbai has fallen flat following a political veto by the Tamil Nadu government which has forced the Centre to shift its preference to the old state monopoly, the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The modernisation project, expected to […]

Isai Puyal A.R. Rahmans music soundtrack of his first movie Roja is listed among the Time magazine 10 best soundtracks of all time. Reacting to the news, “You never know what the world has in store for you. Suddenly you find Roja being selected as one of 10 best soundtracks in the world by Time […]

Launches Travel and Hospitality Innovation Lab 2.0 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is building a new software management solution for British Airways to monitor cabin crew. This solution can be made commercially available for other airlines, according to Paul Coby, Chief Information Officer, British Airways. Addressing a press conference here on Monday at the launch of […]

Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh built on a solid platform laid down by Ganguly and Gambhir to give India a 1-0 lead in the ongoing Indian Oil cricket series. Dhoni scored a responsible 63 (77 balls, 8x4s) and Yuvraj made a fluent 58 (74 balls, 6x4s, 1×6) to add 105 runs for the […]

Mrs. Kamalammal the 68-year-old wife of thespian Sivaji Ganesan, passed away at a private hospital in Chennai on Nov 2nd morning after a prolonged illness. She is survived by two sons actor Prabhu and actor-producer Ramkumar and two daughters, Shanti and Thenmozhi. Mrs. Kamala Ganesan was admitted to the hospital on October 31 and died […]

Theatre chain Pyramid Saimira Theatre (PSTL) has become the first Indian theatre chain to enter the US market.  PSTL has acquired Texas-based FunAsia for an undisclosed sum to expand its business in the North American market. The acquisition was made through PSTL’s US subsidiary Pyramid Saimira Entertainment America Inc. London-based Elara Capital Plc was the […]

The country’s fourth largest software exporter HCL Technologies said it will set up five technology hubs across the country which will entail an investment of Rs 1,000 crore each. Through the new initiative, the company would generate employment for nearly one lakh people in the next five to seven years. The proposed centres are expected […]

Silambattam is Lakshmi Movie Makers 25th film which will also be the debut of noted cameraman Saravanan as a director. The shooting of this movie is going to start soon. Silambarasan lovingly called Simbu is acting as the hero in the movie. There are two heroines in this movie and Sneha has been approched for […]

This Diwali, it will be raining projects from the diversified conglomerate Hinduja Group. The group plans to launch a bouquet of projects in healthcare, real estate and insurance sectors, its focus areas, between November 9 and 15 this year. Group chairman Ashok Hinduja said they had mega plans for the healthcare sector and more specifically, […]

Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal and German Minister for Education and Research Annette Schavan on Tuesday signed an agreement to set up an Indo-German S&T Centre that would promote public-private partnership in scientific and industrial research. The two sides committed to spend 10 million euros each over the next five years on […]