1. India's R. Praggnanandha
defeated fellow Indian and reigning world champion D. Kukesh in a tiebreaker to
win the 87th Tata Steel Masters Chess Tournament held in the Netherlands.
2. The Tamil Nadu government has
issued an order waiving off the education loans given to Adi Dravidar and
Scheduled Tribe students.
3. Minister of State for Civil
Aviation Muralidhar Mohol told the Rajya Sabha that passenger flight services
will start soon in Vellore and Neyveli as the work under the UDAN scheme has
been completed.
4. The Maharashtra government has
ordered that Marathi be made mandatory as the working language in files of
government offices.
5. Chennai-born American singer and
businesswoman Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, who won her first Grammy Award
for her music album ‘Soul Call’ released in 2009, has won her second Grammy
Award for her music album ‘Triveni’.
6. At the 38th National Games being
held in Uttarakhand, the Tamil Nadu team won the gold medal in the men's
4,400-meter relay race.
7. Leading Spanish player Carlos
Alcaraz won the singles title of the Rotterdam Open men's tennis tournament
held in the Netherlands.
8. Presidents, Prime Ministers,
Ministers, Parliamentarians, high-ranking military officers, and industrialists
from all over the world have been participating in this event, which has been
held annually since 1963, under the name of the 'Munich Security Conference'.
9. Tamil Nadu player K. Kamalini
helped the Indian team to win the Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup in Malaysia.
10. Tamil Nadu player V. Subramani
was part of the Indian team that won the World Cup Kho-Kho tournament.