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The New Indian Express Chennai
SBI, Union Bank Hike New Home Loan Rates
With sequential fall in margins between 1 bps and 67 bps across lenders, more banks are expected to follow suit
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Train tickets for Deepavali sold out within minutes
ADVANCE reservations for train travel during the Deepavali festival, which falls on October 20, began on Sunday.
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Southern TN emerges as south India's next export hub
State has signed MoUs worth ₹30,100 crore during a recent investors' conference, promising 46,450 jobs; several big-ticket projects in the pipeline
3 min |
August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Trump Wins Putin Concession on Kyiv Security Guarantees
US and EU Allies to Offer 'Article 5-Like' Security Guarantees for Ukraine Under Potential Peace Framework With Russia, Marking Major Shift
2 min |
August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Over 150 Missing in Deluge-Hit Northwest Pak
More than 150 people are missing in northwest Pakistan, the head of the provincial disaster authority said Sunday, after flash floods that have killed at least 344 people in the country.
1 min |
August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
430 Left Jobless as Firm Shuts Down in Salem
The sudden closure of Talema Electronics (India) Private Limited in Salem on July 31 has left 430 workers jobless, throwing hundreds of families into uncertainty.
1 min |
August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Five Kitchen Ingredients That Can Dry Your Skin
Most of us just love to potter around our kitchen, opening cupboards to whisk up some magical beauty recipes that will make our skin and hair glow naturally!
2 min |
August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Sakhi Mandal organises Tambola event to raise funds
AKHI Mandal Sahyog, established by noted philanthropist the late Saroj Goenka — who was the chairperson of Express Infrastructure Ltd, which runs the Express Avenue mall — in 1959 to help the community, conducted a Tambola event on August 13 at Hotel E, Express Avenue.
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
In a first after Taliban takeover, Pak reaches out to Afghan Oppn leaders
IN a move that could reshape regional dynamics, Pakistani officials will host a landmark two-day conference on August 25 and 26, bringing together a diverse array of Afghan opposition figures including exiled politicians, women's rights activists, and civil society leaders—for the first time since the Taliban seized power in 2021.
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Dhilip Subbarayan on Boards Vishal 35
The latest update on Vishal 35 is that stunt choreographer Dhilip Subbarayan has joined the film, and that the team is headed to Ooty for the next schedule.
1 min |
August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Scorching heat fuels wildfires as Spain sends 500 more troops to hard-hit Galicia
SPAIN is deploying a further 500 soldiers to battle wildfires that have torn through parched woodland during a prolonged spell of scorching weather, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Sunday.
1 min |
August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Tourists left high & dry in Ranthambore core tiger area after canter fails
A group of tourists faced a terrifying ordeal during their safari at the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve on Saturday evening when their canter broke down inside Zone 6.
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Madarsa Board Act to go as U'khand plans minority edu overhaul
THE Uttarakhand government has decided to replace the long-standing Madarsa Education Board Act of 2016, enacted by the erstwhile Congress government, with a comprehensive Uttarakhand Minority Educational Institutions Act.
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Traffic Crawls on Roads to City as People Return After I-Day Weekend
As the extended three-day weekend drew to a close, there was heavy vehicular movement and bottlenecks at multiple points as hundreds of residents who had travelled to their hometown or tourist destinations outside Chennai began returning on Sunday evening.
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Spirulina units open new doors for SC/ST women
IN a bid to create alternative livelihood opportunities for women from SC/ST communities, the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST) has launched an initiative to promote Spirulina farming.
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Sailor Shreya Secures Bronze Medal
OPTIMIST class sailor Shreya Krishna Lakshminarayan secured the 29th position overall out of 327 participants at the Trofeo Simone Lombardi Regatta in Italy.
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Odisha burn case: Teen girl's statement goes viral, probe on
AROUND two weeks after a 15-year-old girl from Puri's Balanga succumbed to burn injuries, a videographed statement of her claiming that she was abducted by three youths and then set on fire went viral on social media on Sunday.
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August 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Ravi appointed guv only to defame TN, says Stalin
THE BJP government has appointed Governor RN Ravi with the sole intention of defaming the Tamil Nadu and the DMK government, said Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday.
1 min |
August 18, 2025
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Centre Should Spend More on Education: VIT Founder
HIGHLIGHTING the long-standing demand to allocate 6% of the country's GDP to education, the founder and chancellor of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Dr G Viswanathan said that the central government should spend more on education, noting that only 3% is currently spent.
1 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express
Breaking the Script in Cinema's Power Circle
Swetha Menon's election as the first woman president of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) is more than symbolic.
3 min |
August 17, 2025
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Everything Gone in Few Seconds: Kishtwar Recalls
Two days after a devastating cloudburst struck Chisoti village in J&K's Kishtwar district, survivors recall horror as families of the missing are clinging to fading hope.
1 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express
Lake burst behind Uttarakhand flash flood, MHA told
ISRO analysis-based report says overflowing small lakes, not cloudburst, triggered Dharali disaster, Kin of the missing cling to hope in J&K
2 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express
Five Dead After Fire Breaks Out at Plastic Manufacturing Unit in B'luru
Officials say electric short circuit is likely to have triggered the fire, rescue work under way
1 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express
'Leadership commendable': India stresses on talks for Ukraine peace
INDIA on Saturday welcomed the high-stakes summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held in Alaska, describing their leadership as \"commendable\" and urging that dialogue and diplomacy must remain the only way forward in resolving the ongoing war in Ukraine.
1 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express
TN to start 'Vetri Palligal' at ₹111 cr to help students with competitive exams
The school education department has sanctioned ₹111.37 crore to transform government higher secondary schools, one in each of the state's 414 blocks, into 'Vetri Palligal' that will offer career counselling and intensive coaching to help students crack competitive exams.
1 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express
JOBLESSNESS IS WORSE THAN WE EXPECTED
The curse of joblessness won't leave us. And it is getting worse.
3 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express
30 Lakh Jobs at Risk, Stalin Urges PM to Shield Textile Sector from Trump Tariffs
TAMIL Nadu has called on the union government to step in as the United States' tariffs threaten to derail the state's textile industry, which employs 75 lakh people and is one of the largest contributors to India's textile exports.
1 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express
European leaders back Putin-Trump-Zelenskyy meeting
This comes after Don rejected ceasefire, calls for direct peace deal
2 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Kovai sanitation workers upset over stringent leave policies
Contract sanitation workers engaged by the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) have voiced concerns over stringent leave policies that they say are causing severe hardships.
1 min |
August 17, 2025
The New Indian Express
From good governance to great aspirations: Modi's Independence Day leap
ELEVEN years into power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is no longer just the steward of a reformist government — he is positioning himself as the architect of a developed Bharat.
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