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New Indian Express
8 hours ago
- Climate
- New Indian Express
Retaining walls to be built at three spots on Kollegal road
ERODE: The State Highways (SH) department will construct retaining walls at three landslide-prone areas on the Anthiyur-Bargur-Kollegal road in Erode district. This has been necessitated by landslides on the stretch during rains late last year. The department has decided to complete these works by December. The project cost is Rs 2.2 crore. The Anthiyur-Bargur-Kollegal road is one of the main routes to Karnataka and is used mostly at night when the Dhimbam hill pass is closed for vehicles at night to protect wildlife. The Dhimbam ghat road (NH 948) passes through the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) and connects Tamil Nadu with Karnataka state. A senior official of the State Highways department said, "All vehicles, including heavy vehicles, pass on that road. The traffic on that road is very busy at all times. Landslides occurred at kilometres 15, 17 and 19 due to heavy rains last November. We repaired the landslide areas by placing sandbags. But it's not a permanent solution. To permanently prevent landslides from occurring in those locations, retaining walls will be constructed. The Tamil Nadu government has given an administrative sanction. The work will begin soon." Speaking to TNIE, C Rajesh Kanna, Assistant Divisional Engineer of SH, said, "These retaining walls will be constructed for a total length of 220 metres. The tender process is currently underway. The work will begin within a month. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of December. Two days ago we inspected the places where the retaining walls are to be constructed."
India Gazette
09-07-2025
- Business
- India Gazette
India seeks critical minerals from Namibia envoy
SH New Delhi is considering importing uranium from the African nation and hopes to expand trade India is considering importing uranium and other critical minerals from Namibia, while pursuing a wider trade partnership with the African nation, New Delhi's envoy in Windhoek said on Tuesday. Speaking to the news outlet ANI ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's one-day state visit to the country, top diplomat Rahul Shrivastava said the two nations enjoyed very good relations and that India was one of the first to support Namibian independence. "We are interested in critical minerals in Namibia, and some of our PSUs (public sector undertakings) would want to invest here," Shrivastava told ANI. "We are looking at the export of uranium from Namibia to India." New Delhi has beenscoutingfor critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, and copper from countries such as Zambia, Congo, and Australia. "Through our missions, we are working on trying to get critical mineral assets for exploration and mining," Indian Mines Secretary V.L. Kantha Rao said in February. Modi, who arrived in Windhoek on Wednesday after attending the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, will discuss a variety of trade-related issues with Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. In his interview with ANI, Shrivastava said that there had been recent oil and gas discoveries in Namibia and that this was an "area of interest" for India. The African country has expressed an interest in buying Indian-manufactured weaponry. "We will be discussing defense cooperation because Namibia wants to procure defense items from India, and capacity building is one of the important pillars of India-Namibia relations that we will also enhance during the visit," Shrivastava added. During his trip, Modi will pay homage to the founding father of Namibia, Dr Sam Nujoma, address the country's parliament, and interact with the Indian diaspora. He is the first Indian prime minister to visit the African nation in 27 years. (
Indian Express
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Rajinikanth's nephew, composer Anirudh Ravichander reacts to wedding rumours with SRH owner Kavya Maran: ‘Marriage ah?'
There was wedding speculation around Rajinikanth's nephew, music composer-singer Anirudh Ravichander, and businesswoman and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SH) owner Kavya Maran. The composer, who has given hit songs to films like Jailer, Jawan, Petta, Vikram, Devara and Leo among others, had a cryptic response to the rumours. Ravichander responded to the ongoing claims about his wedding in a post on his X handle. 'Marriage ah? lol .. Chill out guys…please stop spreading rumours (sic),' the singer wrote. The reports went viral on the internet after a Reddit post claimed that the singer is tying the knot with Maran, who is the daughter of Sun Group chairman Kalanithi Maran. The Reddit post read, 'It is being speculated that music composer Anirudh Ravichander and Kavya Maran – daughter of Sun TV's Kalanithi Maran and owner of the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) IPL team – are in a relationship. Reports suggest that superstar Rajinikanth has personally spoken to Kalanithi Maran about their relationship, leading to expectations that the couple may tie the knot soon (sic).' ALSO READ | Anirudh Ravichander turns 34: From VIP to Vettaiyan, tracing the journey of the Rockstar in the past decade Anirudh marrying Kavya Maran? byu/Primary-Resident-764 inKollyGossips Anirudh and Kavya's dating rumours started after they were spotted together on a dinner date recently. Several users claimed that they have seen the duo spending quality time together at different places. 'Might actually be true seeing how I have seen in other subs where people said they have seen both of them having dinner at star hotels,' a person wrote. 'I myself have seen them in Las Vegas a year back, they were having a good personal time walking down the Vegas strip,' another one commented. Earlier, Anirudh was rumoured to be in a relationship with actor Keerthy Suresh, with many speculations around their possible marriage in 2023. But, both of them strongly turned down the reports. In fact, in 2024, Keerthy Suresh tied the knot with her long-time boyfriend Antony Thattil in December, last year. Anirudh is the son of actor Ravi Raghavendra and classical dancer Lakshmi. His aunt Latha, who is the wife of Tamil superstar Rajinikanth. On the work front, Anirudh Ravichander has composed music for Vijay Deverakonda's highly-awaited action drama Kingdom. The film was earlier scheduled for a theatrical release on July 4, 2025, but is now facing several delays.
Sydney Morning Herald
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
These are the best and worst moments from the 2025 Tony Awards
Best placement: Cynthia Erivo's balcony bit It's become an awards-show staple: The host schleps up to the balcony seats to mingle with us regular folks and maybe tell a joke or two. Erivo's ascent at Radio City was worth the climb. In a night of a thousand costume changes, her pink candy wrapper of a dress was a zany delight. And the atmosphere up there lent itself to deft comedy – about her height, about Abraham Lincoln and, best of all, about why sitting far away was the best place to watch Jonathan (He Spits When He Sings) Groff perform: 'So please welcome the man who makes everyone wet …' – SH Best nightclub act: Groff as Bobby Darin Showmanship is distinct from acting. It's an elusive, unfairly distributed quality: You have it, or you don't. Groff's dynamite medley – Mack the Knife, That's All and Once in a Lifetime – proved he has it. In this context, merely delivering a song well isn't enough — you have to sell it. It's something that Darin, the subject of Groff's current vehicle, Just in Time, had. At Radio City on Sunday, Groff moved like a man possessed by the need to entertain, straddling a seated Keanu Reeves' head and driven by the rhythm of mad bongos. Please, let him host the Tonys next year. – EV Loading Worst eyeful: Too many pixels This season, virtual scenery reached critical mass on Broadway, in Sunset Boulevard, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Redwood and Maybe Happy Ending. The Tony Awards telecast followed suit, ditching traditional flats, drops and clunky wagons in favour of digital backgrounds that ultimately looked cheesy. Literally cheesy-looking in the case of the excerpt from Operation Mincemeat, a totally old-tech musical performed during the ceremony in front of yellow-washed screens that made the actors look as if they'd fallen into a vat of fondue. Why would the producers of a theatre awards show make such an anti-theatrical choice? For the same reason some of the less artful shows do: It's faster, cheaper and, for audiences who have to be pried away from their own screens, perhaps more enticing. – JG Best homecoming: Asian and Asian American artists win big It was a historic evening for a troupe of Asian and Asian American theatre artists, including Nicole Scherzinger, Francis Jue and Darren Criss, who all won performance Tonys. Marco Paguia also received a Tony for his Buena Vista Social Club orchestrations, and Hue Park won for writing the lyrics and co-writing the book for Maybe Happy Ending, the evening's breakout success. In their speeches, several of the artists made reference to feeling left out or ignored before finding a home in the theatre. Scherzinger, who noted her Filipina, Native Hawaiian and Ukrainian ancestry, said, 'I always felt like I didn't belong, but you all have made me feel like I belong and I have come home at last.' – ALEXIS SOLOSKI Best sell: Making the plays pop For all their glamour, and their genuine recognition of talent, the Tonys are an industry advertisement — meant not only to sell tickets in New York, but also to give the nominated shows a life beyond Broadway. Musicals, with their colourful numbers, have always had an advantage in making their case for that. Plays, by comparison, have tended not to translate. But there was real charm to the way this year's best play nominees were introduced. With a framed screen of video clips playing upstage, a Tony-nominated star from each show spoke with an insider's affection while giving a synopsis of it: Marjan Neshat for English, Sadie Sink for John Proctor Is the Villain, Cole Escola for Oh, Mary!, Harry Lennix for Purpose, Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California. It was easy to imagine would-be producers and audience members out there, their interest suddenly piqued. – LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES Best 'sing-off': Cynthia Erivo's My Way It's always a delicate matter: how to usher off winners whose speeches go too long. A clever step up from canned elevator music: Erivo singing a passage from the standard My Way, popularised by Frank Sinatra. When Kara Young, accepting her award for Purpose, was still in the thick of her extensive list of thank-yous to those who had made her back-to-back featured actress in a play wins possible, it was a gentle balm to hear 'And now, the end is near / And so I face the final curtain …' – SARAH BAHR Loading Worst placement: Preshow spot for book and score awards Not every scene deserves a spotlight, but relegating the book and score awards to the Tonys preshow felt at least a little rude. What is a musical without its songs? Or its occasionally effortful patter between songs? (And is dance really an also-ran, too?) At the 2025 Tonys, a win for Maybe Happy Ending was practically assured after its wins for book and score, though viewers watching only the main broadcast would never have known this. Couldn't we swap out a drug ad or a few host jokes to show these prizes on the main stage? – AS Best farewell to cynicism: Hester's open heart In the World War II caper Operation Mincemeat, Jak Malone's big song, Dear Bill, is nearly six minutes long. It's a major reason he won a featured-actor Tony, because that is the moment when his character — a middle-aged British intelligence secretary named Hester — opens her wounded heart to the audience. 'They weep for her,' Malone said in his speech, 'they invest in her, they love her for her old romantic heart. And if you watched our show and found yourself believing in Hester, well, then I am so glad to tell you that, intentionally or otherwise, you might have just bid farewell to cynicism, to outdated ideas, to that rotten old binary, and opened yourself up to a world that is already out there in glorious Technicolor and isn't going away anytime soon.' – LCH
The Age
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
These are the best and worst moments from the 2025 Tony Awards
Best placement: Cynthia Erivo's balcony bit It's become an awards-show staple: The host schleps up to the balcony seats to mingle with us regular folks and maybe tell a joke or two. Erivo's ascent at Radio City was worth the climb. In a night of a thousand costume changes, her pink candy wrapper of a dress was a zany delight. And the atmosphere up there lent itself to deft comedy – about her height, about Abraham Lincoln and, best of all, about why sitting far away was the best place to watch Jonathan (He Spits When He Sings) Groff perform: 'So please welcome the man who makes everyone wet …' – SH Best nightclub act: Groff as Bobby Darin Showmanship is distinct from acting. It's an elusive, unfairly distributed quality: You have it, or you don't. Groff's dynamite medley – Mack the Knife, That's All and Once in a Lifetime – proved he has it. In this context, merely delivering a song well isn't enough — you have to sell it. It's something that Darin, the subject of Groff's current vehicle, Just in Time, had. At Radio City on Sunday, Groff moved like a man possessed by the need to entertain, straddling a seated Keanu Reeves' head and driven by the rhythm of mad bongos. Please, let him host the Tonys next year. – EV Loading Worst eyeful: Too many pixels This season, virtual scenery reached critical mass on Broadway, in Sunset Boulevard, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Redwood and Maybe Happy Ending. The Tony Awards telecast followed suit, ditching traditional flats, drops and clunky wagons in favour of digital backgrounds that ultimately looked cheesy. Literally cheesy-looking in the case of the excerpt from Operation Mincemeat, a totally old-tech musical performed during the ceremony in front of yellow-washed screens that made the actors look as if they'd fallen into a vat of fondue. Why would the producers of a theatre awards show make such an anti-theatrical choice? For the same reason some of the less artful shows do: It's faster, cheaper and, for audiences who have to be pried away from their own screens, perhaps more enticing. – JG Best homecoming: Asian and Asian American artists win big It was a historic evening for a troupe of Asian and Asian American theatre artists, including Nicole Scherzinger, Francis Jue and Darren Criss, who all won performance Tonys. Marco Paguia also received a Tony for his Buena Vista Social Club orchestrations, and Hue Park won for writing the lyrics and co-writing the book for Maybe Happy Ending, the evening's breakout success. In their speeches, several of the artists made reference to feeling left out or ignored before finding a home in the theatre. Scherzinger, who noted her Filipina, Native Hawaiian and Ukrainian ancestry, said, 'I always felt like I didn't belong, but you all have made me feel like I belong and I have come home at last.' – ALEXIS SOLOSKI Best sell: Making the plays pop For all their glamour, and their genuine recognition of talent, the Tonys are an industry advertisement — meant not only to sell tickets in New York, but also to give the nominated shows a life beyond Broadway. Musicals, with their colourful numbers, have always had an advantage in making their case for that. Plays, by comparison, have tended not to translate. But there was real charm to the way this year's best play nominees were introduced. With a framed screen of video clips playing upstage, a Tony-nominated star from each show spoke with an insider's affection while giving a synopsis of it: Marjan Neshat for English, Sadie Sink for John Proctor Is the Villain, Cole Escola for Oh, Mary!, Harry Lennix for Purpose, Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California. It was easy to imagine would-be producers and audience members out there, their interest suddenly piqued. – LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES Best 'sing-off': Cynthia Erivo's My Way It's always a delicate matter: how to usher off winners whose speeches go too long. A clever step up from canned elevator music: Erivo singing a passage from the standard My Way, popularised by Frank Sinatra. When Kara Young, accepting her award for Purpose, was still in the thick of her extensive list of thank-yous to those who had made her back-to-back featured actress in a play wins possible, it was a gentle balm to hear 'And now, the end is near / And so I face the final curtain …' – SARAH BAHR Loading Worst placement: Preshow spot for book and score awards Not every scene deserves a spotlight, but relegating the book and score awards to the Tonys preshow felt at least a little rude. What is a musical without its songs? Or its occasionally effortful patter between songs? (And is dance really an also-ran, too?) At the 2025 Tonys, a win for Maybe Happy Ending was practically assured after its wins for book and score, though viewers watching only the main broadcast would never have known this. Couldn't we swap out a drug ad or a few host jokes to show these prizes on the main stage? – AS Best farewell to cynicism: Hester's open heart In the World War II caper Operation Mincemeat, Jak Malone's big song, Dear Bill, is nearly six minutes long. It's a major reason he won a featured-actor Tony, because that is the moment when his character — a middle-aged British intelligence secretary named Hester — opens her wounded heart to the audience. 'They weep for her,' Malone said in his speech, 'they invest in her, they love her for her old romantic heart. And if you watched our show and found yourself believing in Hester, well, then I am so glad to tell you that, intentionally or otherwise, you might have just bid farewell to cynicism, to outdated ideas, to that rotten old binary, and opened yourself up to a world that is already out there in glorious Technicolor and isn't going away anytime soon.' – LCH
