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The New Indian Express Kottayam
BJP prepares to go solo in Punjab polls, Shah wants outreach at booth level
THE BJP is likely to contest the next Assembly election in Punjab without entering into an alliance. The decision to field candidates on all 117 seats was deliberated upon at a two-hour brainstorming session between Punjab leaders and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president Nitin Nabin and party’s national general secretary B L Santhosh on Friday night in Delhi.
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June 14, 2026
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After ODI triumph, India women seek immortal glory
IN sport, pressure comes in different versions.
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June 14, 2026
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MBBS student from KEM sent on 15 days' leave over her comment on cadavers
DAYS after a video clip of a female MBBS student from Mumbai’s KEM Hospital, Sejal Pawar, joking about the size of male cadavers’ private parts sparked controversy, the hospital and its attached medical college on Saturday placed her on compulsory leave for 15 days.
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June 14, 2026
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In the Garden of Shared Epics
Ferdowsi is undoubtedly the king of Persian poets. Through his monumental Shahnameh—begun in 977 CE and completed over nearly three decades—he secured his place among the greatest preservers of language, literature, and cultural memory in world history.
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June 14, 2026
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What is the Price of a Life in India?
A name becomes a number, a life becomes a statistic, as countless people disappear into India’s daily ledger of loss
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June 14, 2026
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Anthropic asked to disable Fable 5, Mythos 5 outside US
DAYS after Anthropic released its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 artificial intelligence models, the US government has ordered to suspend access to these models outside the country.
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June 14, 2026
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AWESOME FOURSOME RATTLES BJP
IN the sprawling Rashtrapati Bhawan complex, where Niti Aayog’s national narrative unfolded last week as polite choreography between the Centre and the states, four chief ministers arrived not as supplicants, but as a single, coordinated force.
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June 14, 2026
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Captain, poker player, TV pundit and Bosnia coach
SERGEJ Barbarez surveilled the scene in front of him.
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June 14, 2026
The New Indian Express Kottayam
Iran to bury former supreme leader Khamenei on July 9
War-postponed rites to begin on July 4 in Tehran, with procession via Qom to Mashhad
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June 14, 2026
The New Indian Express Kottayam
EAM raises US lethal action, Rubio cites blockade breach
EXTERNAL Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday raised the killing of three Indian mariners in a US military strike on a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Oman with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, saying “such lethal actions against commercial shipping are not justified.”
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June 14, 2026
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Uddhav meets MPs amid talk of Shinde's 'Operation Tiger'
AMID reports of a TMC split, Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday convened his party’s parliamentary board meeting, which was attended by senior party leaders besides Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members.
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June 14, 2026
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Row over Rabri's diamond bracelet gift to folk singer
RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s 79th birthday celebration has triggered a controversy after ex-CM Rabri Devi gifted a diamond-studded golden bracelet to a Bhojpuri folk singer as JD(U) on Saturday wrote to Bihar police’s Economic Offences Unit (EOU), demanding a probe.
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June 14, 2026
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Belfast answers racist unrest with citywide anti-hate rally
THOUSANDS of people on Saturday gathered for an anti-racist rally in the Northern Irish city of Belfast after unrest sparked by a horrific stabbing.
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June 14, 2026
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Workers strip Trump's name from Kennedy Center after ruling
WORKERS in the US capital began removing President Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, after a federal judge ruled that its renaming was unlawful.
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June 14, 2026
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SIT to probe ₹7-cr Ayodhya funds swindle
IN the wake of the demand of Shree Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust and acting on the direction of CM Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday constituted a three-member SIT to probe into the alleged embezzlement of donation funds from the Ram Temple in Ayodhya amid mounting calls for a transparent inquiry. Donations to the tune of ₹7 crore were reportedly swindled.
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June 14, 2026
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Sindhu, SatChi to lead charge
TWO-TIME Asian Games medallist PV Sindhu, Asiad men’s doubles gold medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will lead India’s charge in the upcoming Asian Games, which is set to be held in Aichi-Nagoya (Japan) from September 19 to October 4.
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June 14, 2026
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Blue wave from tiny Curacao is making history
THERE won't be millions of people from Curacao cheering on their national team in the World Cup, because Curacao doesn’t have millions of people.
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June 14, 2026
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SCIENTIFIC CAPABILITIES AS STRATEGIC ASSETS
AS Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes a decade in office, it is an appropriate moment to reflect on a leadership journey that has sought to reshape India’s development trajectory and redefine its place in the world.
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June 14, 2026
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EVOLVING SYMBOLISM OF POWER DRESSING
LAWYERS sport it. Corporate executives flaunt it. Even callow job aspirants wear it. But when a newly-minted chief minister shows up in one in Tamil Nadu, it can raise eyebrows.
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June 14, 2026
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Japan vs US: Tale of 2 interest rates
With Japan being the top investor, BoJ rate hike may trigger massive sale of US govt bonds
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June 14, 2026
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FIFA blames fans for empty seats
FIFA on Friday blamed the empty seats during the World Cup match between South Korea and the Czech Republic in Guadalajara on fans who watched from the concourses.
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June 14, 2026
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Toxic gas leak in abandoned coal mine, 4 killed
FOUR people were killed due to a toxic gas leak in an abandoned coal mine in Ramgarh. The incident took place in the Chapri-Bumri area under the Ramgarh forest zone, where few had descended into the closed coal mine with an intention to extract coal.
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June 14, 2026
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Assam tightens Aadhaar norms to check influx: CM
Divyang, SC, ST and tea garden communities kept out of ambit
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June 14, 2026
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Copyright move triggers religious storm
A controversy has erupted around Gujarat’s pilgrimage town of Salangpur in Botad district after the temple trust secured copyright and trademark protection for the 54-foot-tall “King of Salangpur” Hanuman statue and his sacred idol with 13 monkeys installed inside the temple’s sanctum sanctorum.
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June 14, 2026
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Rack storage to grow into ₹27k cr industry by '30
INDIA'S vertical storage industry, also known as rack storage solutions, is expected to nearly double in size to around 27,000 crore by 2030, driven by rising demand from manufacturers for storage facilities located close to production units and supported by government initiatives such as PM Gati Shakti and the development of multimodal logistics parks.
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June 14, 2026
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ICAI to take up Rajesh Exports case suo motu
THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will constitute a separate technical group on a suo motu basis to examine issues arising from the Rajesh Exports case even as the Sebi has referred the matter to the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) for further probe.
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June 14, 2026
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THE ALGO RAJ: POLITICAL RISKS OF TECH OLIGARCHY
ON Thursday evening, he was worth $696 billion. Roughly 12 hours later, as SpaceX listed on Nasdaq, mercurial genius Elon Musk notched history’s milestone—the world’s first trillionaire.
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June 14, 2026
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Shubman takes India home
SKIPPER Shubman Gill struck 84 not out to headline India’s seven-wicket victory over Afghanistan in their rain-truncated first ODI here on Saturday.
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June 14, 2026
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Lebanese troops pull back from southern base as Israelis advance
The Lebanese army on Saturday withdrew its troops from a base in a southern Lebanese village after Israeli troops advanced in an area nearby, a military official said.
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June 14, 2026
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FIR lodged against Didi over 'provocative' remarks
AN FIR has been registered against TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee for allegedly making provocative remarks during the last assembly poll campaign, police said on Friday.
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