Even the not-so-FAQs answered Chennai, June 10: GST. What is the road ahead? We at Crank’s News are uniquely placed to answer this question — this is why we are experts and you are just lay leaders — because the road ahead of our office is literally GST (Grand Southern Trunk Road). This crowded, confused, complex GST Road, as it is now, could… Read more →
Yet another tragedy has hit Chennai. I am doubtless referring to the huge fire that has brought down the 8-storeyed ‘The Chennai Silks’ building in T Nagar. But Chennaiites once again showed that regardless of where the mishap was and no matter how enormous it was, you could trust them to rise up to the occasion, make a beeline to the spot of trouble and, in a spirit of… Read more →
Interesting tidbits from ICC Champions Trophy’s chequered history London, May 31: The ICC Champions Trophy, which kicks off tomorrow in England, is perhaps the most prestigious limited overs tournament, after the ICC World Cup, IPL, Big Bash League, Caribbean T20 League and Buchi Babu Trophy. The ICC Champions Trophy, which was originally named ICC Knock Out Trophy (there was no… Read more →
The year was 1982, which with my investigative journalism skills, I can confirm to be 35 years ago, when I first watched Moonraker, starring the recently-demised Roger Moore, at Madurai’s Thangam theatre, the largest movie hall in the entirety of Asia. Whether this claim was true or not, Thangam theatre was surely the largest theatre in the world that had rats, the size of a… Read more →
Sub-editor pays the penalty for slipping up on basics of click-bait journalism on Rajini report New Delhi, May 24: When young Naveen Tripathi, a New Delhi-based sub-editor with a popular internet site that is known for hard-hitting investigative news stories like ‘7 reasons why you will not read this story’, found a news report on Tamil film superstar Rajinikanth’s putative entry… Read more →
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