S Mariappan

Sharad Pawar, chief of the Nationalist Congress Party or NCP, and BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi have been awarded the country's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, this year. The Padma Shri awards celebrate the "Unsung Hero", with a 68-year-old martial art expert, a weaver and several doctors sharing honours with India's cricket ...

The Padma Shri awards celebrate the 'Unsung Hero' this year - among them a 76-year-old martial arts expert, a weaver, doctors, environmentalists and civic workers. Over the years, these silent workers have enriched India in many ways - from cleaning up clogged rivers to building bridges at one-tenth the time and cost or saving thousands from fires,...

A group of girls from Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district, many of them representing the Thiruvalluvar University and whose families were destroyed by the 2004 tsunami, are football champions today. And they have S Mariappan a retired headmaster, to thank for that.

More than 100 workers in Bahrain, most of them from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, may soon be able to return home. Some have not seen their families in over six years. Their employer, a company named Nass Contracting, which is in the business of construction, had won a court case that banned them from travelling outside Bahrain.

Sharad Pawar, chief of the Nationalist Congress Party or NCP, and BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi have been awarded the country's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, this year. The Padma Shri awards celebrate the "Unsung Hero", with a 68-year-old martial art expert, a weaver and several doctors sharing honours with India's cricket ...

The Padma Shri awards celebrate the 'Unsung Hero' this year - among them a 76-year-old martial arts expert, a weaver, doctors, environmentalists and civic workers. Over the years, these silent workers have enriched India in many ways - from cleaning up clogged rivers to building bridges at one-tenth the time and cost or saving thousands from fires,...

A group of girls from Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district, many of them representing the Thiruvalluvar University and whose families were destroyed by the 2004 tsunami, are football champions today. And they have S Mariappan a retired headmaster, to thank for that.

More than 100 workers in Bahrain, most of them from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, may soon be able to return home. Some have not seen their families in over six years. Their employer, a company named Nass Contracting, which is in the business of construction, had won a court case that banned them from travelling outside Bahrain.