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2,400 runners participated in the 'Made of Chennai Run' as part of 'The Hindu Festival of Chennai'. Nandhini Ramanadhan, C. Muralidharan, Ashitosh Singh, Lakshmi Devi, Vaishnavi Srinivasan, P. Bhaskar & Subash Cheran won the 10K & 5K runs.

The town square in Thrissur, Kerala turns into a collage of stripes and spots as more than 250 “human tigers and leopards” prance about the streets in a rollicking show to lend a carnivalesque finish to the Onam celebrations.

The curtain will come down on the week-long Onam celebrations, organised by the State Tourism Department, with a cultural pageantry in the State capital on Saturday evening.

Conservationists welcome orders to dismantle 12 resorts in Segur Plateau Elephant Corridor, ensuring protection of crucial corridor connecting Eastern and Western Ghats. District administration to initiate action against resort owners, with owners given reprieve to dismantle buildings and transport materials out of their properties. A total of 176 orders have…

Kudumbashree Mission members set a record by performing Thiruvathirakkali with 7,027 dancers. Revenue Minister K. Rajan inaugurated the event and congratulated the mission members. Certificates from LIMCA Book of Records and Talent Record Book were presented. Steps are being taken to enter the feat in the Guinness Book of Records.…

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Holiday cheer marked the final day of the supersized Thiru Onam shopping season in Kerala as citizens crowded markets, malls, flower shops, electronic gadget stores and textile showrooms scouting for closing-hour bargain buys. Old traditions, uthrada pachil, made a comeback even as paddy farmers staged a protest outside the Kerala…