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The New Indian Express
GOVT BLINKS, ROLLS BACK SANCHAR SAATHI ORDER
THE government on Wednesday withdrew its order directing phone makers to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app, following strong backlash from opposition parties, digital rights activists, and manufacturers including Apple and Google.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express
As TN observes Disability Day, India's only free spinal rehab centre faces closure
SOULFREE Inspire Centre, India's only integrated spinal rehabilitation centre that offers treatment free of cost, functioning at the old government hospital building in Tiruvannamalai, is facing closure as its three-year lease agreement, between the centre and the state government, expired on Wednesday, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Without a valid lease agreement, the centre would lose support from donors.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express
85 lakh names may be off TN draft SIR rolls
WITH eight days left for the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls to be completed, the number of forms that remained \"uncollectable\" so far in Tamil Nadu stood at 84.91 lakh, indicating that these many voters' names may potentially be removed from the draft electoral rolls to be published on December 16, 2025.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express
NORTH CHENNAI BEARS BRUNT, MORE RAIN LIKELY
Vyasarpadi, where water was cleared using 3 pumps, inundated again
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express
Massive chaos as over 200 IndiGo flights cancelled
Insiders attribute it to Emirates' hiring spree
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express
Gaikwad stakes claim, but SA clinch run-fest
Opener Markram slams century while Breetzke & Brevis score a fifty each as Proteas chase down 359 to level series
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express
THIRUPARANKUNDRAM Sec 144 clamped after HC allows petitioner to light Deepam at hilltop
PROHIBITORY orders under Section 163 of the BNSS (Section 144 of CrPC) were imposed in Thiruparankundram area late on Wednesday amid a tense standoff between members of Hindu outfits, who wanted to light the Karthigai Deepam atop a stone pillar (Deepathoon) near a dargah on the Thiruparankudram hill, and police personnel deployed for security at the foothills.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
A CUP OF WARMTH
Gather the strength to step out in this chilly, rainy weather, and warm your soul and senses with the city's perfectly crafted sips of hot chocolate
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express
Lakhs brave rain to witness Maha Deepam in T’malai
THE Maha Deepam was lit atop the 2,668ft Arunachaleswarar Hill at 6pm on Wednesday. Despite the pouring rain, lakhs of devotees visited the Arunachaleswarar Temple and chanted 'Annamalaiyarkku Harohara' as they waited to witness the Maha Deepam coming to life.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Pregnant B'deshi woman, son welcome, says SC
IN a significant move, the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed, on \"humanitarian grounds\", the return of Sunali Khatoon, a pregnant woman, and her eight-year-old son, Sabir, to India, seven months after they were deported to Bangladesh.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
CYCLONE DITWAH REMINDS WE ARE IN THE SAME BOAT
THE devastation wrought by Cyclone Ditwah across Sri Lanka is not merely a tragic weather event; it is a stark indictment of its fragile infrastructure, patchy disaster communication, and long-neglected urban planning.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express
PwDs need recognition of rights: CM
Stalin launches govt scheme by nominating persons with disabilities to urban local bodies
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Ditwah weakens, holiday for Chennai, Tiruvallur schools
THE depression which is left of cyclonic storm Ditwah weakened into a well-marked low pressure area over the North Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coasts early on Wednesday morning.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
'RANGEELA was a celebration of life'
THIRTY years may have passed, but the girl who danced into our hearts as Mili still lights up the screen with the same magnetic glow.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
BANISHING THE MAOIST PHOENIX
WHAT originated as a protest over land issues in West Bengal's Naxalbari developed into a highly violent revolutionary insurgency that killed a large number of security personnel, hundreds of civilians, and caused the loss of private and public property worth crores of rupees. By the mid-1970s, the original movement was decimated.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express
AAMIR KHAN TO BACK VIR DAS' DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
ON Wednesday, Aamir Khan Productions announced that they are backing a spycomedy film titled Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jaasoos. It marks the directorial debut of comedian-actor Vir Das and will also feature him in the lead role along with Mona Singh.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
REIMAGINING THE CITY THROUGH ART
N Chennai, art is not merely something that hangs on walls; it drifts through salt-sweet sea breeze, stains fingers with filter coffee brown, echoes from temple corridors, and hums along the tracks of a metro line cutting through old neighbourhoods.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Scuffle after protesters tried to break through police cordon
ACCORDING to sources, Additional Advocate General J Ravindran met Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava in Chennai on Wednesday evening and requested him to give instructions on taking up the appeal filed for urgent hearing. Subsequently, the matter was mentioned before Justice G Jayachandran heading the roster division bench of the Madras HC's Madurai Bench. The appeal will coming up for hearing on Thursday.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Karur tragedy: SC's monitoring committee visits Velusamypuram
THE Supreme Court-appointed three-member monitoring committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ajay Rastogi, on Wednesday visited Velusamypuram, where a stampede took place during TVK leader Vijay's rally on September 27, The team was accompanied by Central Zone IG K Joshi Nirmal Kumar and officials from the CBI. The committee is reviewing the probe conducted so far by the CBI team.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Government pleader hacked to death in Tenkasi
A government pleader was hacked to death inside his office allegedly by his relative on Wednesday, prompting advocates to stage a road blockade demanding the arrest of the suspect.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Seeks views Single-use plastic ban: HC impleads top brands
The Madras High Court has suo motu impleaded top corporate companies manufacturing edibles and other consumables in a case on banning single-use plastic products in the hill stations of the Nilgiris and Kodaikanal (in Dindigul district).
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
JFE Steel to buy JSW BPSL stake for ₹15,000 cr
INDUSTRIALIST Sajjan Jindal's JSW Steel will sell a 50% stake in its subsidiary Bhushan Power and Steel (BPSL) to Japan's JFE Steel Corporation for ₹15,750 crore to form an equal joint venture (JV) at an equity value of ₹31,500 crore.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
RPF jawan kills batchmate in post in Raigarh
A Railway Protection Force (RPF) head constable shot his colleague dead inside the RPF post early Wednesday at Raigarh, around 220 km east of Raipur, a police officer said.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Mark Wahlberg to headline The Operator
MARK Wahlberg is set to star in The Operator, a new film that has been acquired by Netflix.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Deadline for pet licence extended till December 14
THE Greater Chennai Corporation has extended the deadline for obtaining pet licences to December 14, after the recent rainfall in the city.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Gill, Hardik back in T20I team, no Rinku for SA series
SHUBMAN Gill is back in the Indian team as vice-captain of the T20I team for the South Africa series as the BCCI announced the squad on Wednesday.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
AGENT TRAFFICKING PEOPLE TO MYANMAR FOR CYBER SCAM HELD
THE Cyber Crime Wing of the Tamil Nadu police, in an important breakthrough, has arrested a key operative of an international job fraud and human trafficking network that was operating between India, Thailand and Myanmar, mainly taking people to cyber scam compounds operating out of the junta-ruled Myanmar.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
MP records higher stubble burning than 5 states
Using satellite remote sensing, ICAR detected 33,028 paddy residue burning events across six states between Sept 15 and November 20, 2025
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Nicholas Hoult, Daisy Edgar-Jones to reunite for a comedy series
NICHOLAS Hoult and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to headline Mosquito, a new series from Tony McNamara, the writer of Poor Things.
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December 04, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
OPS meets Amit Shah in Delhi, sparks alliance buzz
FOUR months after walking out of the NDA, former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam on Wednesday said he met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi during what he described as a courtesy call.
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