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The New Indian Express Chennai
CJI asks high courts to follow SC example, go virtual two days a week
CHIEF Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Monday said he had requested the chief justices of all the state high courts to conduct online hearings on Mondays and Fridays for the time being to reduce avoidable expenditure on fuels.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Immortal wraps filming
ON Monday, actor-music composer GV Prakash Kumar took to social media to announce that his upcoming film, Immortal, has wrapped filming.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Tourism looks up in J&K, trekkers keep away
THOUGH tourism is gradually rebounding in Kashmir post last year’s Pahalgam attack, adventure tourism is struggling as the trekking routes in the Valley remain off-limits, affecting the livelihood of hundreds who depend on it.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
THE LONG RIDE TO BURNOUT
What we often dismiss as ‘‘just traffic’’ is a consistent daily stress trigger, that is impacting emotional regulation, increasing impatience, and contributing to burnout among Chennai’s working professionals
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
ED writes to chief secy, seeks nod to prosecute Balaji in cash-for-job scam
Claims ex-minister orchestrated bribe racket via his brother, PAs between 2011 and 2016
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Musk loses blockbuster suit against OpenAI
A federal jury ruled Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its co-founders, delivering a decisive victory to the ChatGPT startup and ending one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched courtroom battles.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
BCCI: 2018 under RTI, now not ‘public authority’
Then Central Information Commission held that the Indian cricket board was to be bound by RTI but latest order reversed by the same body eight years later
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
BJP wants Punjab to emulate Naidu, offer rewards to couples for more kids
WITH the aim of reversing Punjab’s declining demographic trend and falling fertility rate, former bureaucrat and Punjab BJP state general secretary Dr Jagmohan Singh Raju has shot off a communiqué to CM Bhagwant Mann to announce financial incentives for young Sikh couples on the lines of the Andhra Pradesh model for having four children.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Class 7 boy killed by friends, aged 13 & 15, after minor argument
A 13-year-old Class 7 student was allegedly beaten to death after a minor argument by two of his friends near Irugur in Coimbatore district. The suspects had dug a pit and buried the body to escape from the crime, police said.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
House panel to review NEET paper leak case, summons test agency head
AMID the NEET-UG row, the parliamentary panel on education has summoned National Testing Agency Chairperson Pradeep Kumar Joshi and other bureaucrats for deliberations on Thursday.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Decades of Naxal devastation to be fixed in five years: Shah
Home minister says Bastar’s image will change from a conflict zone to a centre of progress
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
VDS kicks off on a welfare note
Kerala CM V D Satheesan announces free travel for women, dedicated dept for senior citizens
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
THE MANTRA IS ‘THRIFT N THRIVE’
Tucked away in some pockets of the city are stores with pocket-friendly surprises
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Draft norms out for battery systems to boost renewable energy integration
THE Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has issued draft regulations for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and invited comments and suggestions from stakeholders on or before May 30, 2026.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
₹ falls to new closing low of 96.35 due to rising crude price, US bond yields
THE rupee continued to bleed for the seventh consecutive trading session to close at an all-time low of 96.35 on Monday.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
DMK failed to use social media like TVK: Stalin
DMK president and former chief minister M K Stalin on Monday said his party did not use social media actively for electioneering like the TVK.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
No relief to wrestler Vinesh from Delhi HC
DAYS after she was denied participation in the Senior Open Ranking Tournament in Nandini Nagar, Gonda (Uttar Pradesh), two-time World Championships bronze medallist wrestler Vinesh Phogat could not get relief despite filing an extraordinary writ petition before the High Court of Delhi.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Iran sanctions violations: Adani to pay $275 mn to settle case
THE US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Monday that it agreed to a $275 million settlement with Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL).
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Madurai man running restaurants in Cambodia held for cyber slavery
Upon accepting job, victim was trapped in a compound and forced to carry out cyber scam
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Iran claims US agreed to freeze oil sanctions till deal is reached
Traffic through Strait of Hormuz returns to wartime average after last week’s dip, says monitor
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
PTR announces ‘short break’ from public life
FORMER DMK minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan on Monday announced that he would be taking a “short break” from public life after a decade in electoral politics, while asserting that his commitment to public service remained “undiminished” despite his defeat in the 2026 Assembly election.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Dhoni-less CSK lose at home as SRH, GT qualify
PAT Cummins’ three-wicket haul (3/28) and Ishan Kishan’s 47-ball 70 helped Sunrisers Hyderabad get the better of Chennai Super Kings by five wickets in the Indian Premier League at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here on Monday.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
'Vijay didn't appreciate Modi for return of Chola artefacts'
THE BJP on Monday criticised Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay for not reacting to the return of the Chola-era Anaimangalam copper plates from Leiden University in the Netherlands.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Airline accuses 2 staff of diverting ₹2 crore to multiple bank accounts
A case has been registered after SriLankan Airlines office in Chennai claimed two employees handling financial transactions had misappropriated ₹2.20 crore by diverting company funds to multiple bank accounts using forged receipts and fabricated documents.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
SLEEP-WALKING IN A POLICY DESERT
ASHINGTON Irving's ‘Rip Van Winkle’ is about a man who wakes up after a 20-year nap to find that the American Revolution has happened and British King George III's portrait in the village inn has been replaced with that of George Washington.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Girlfriend among two detained after worker found dead
A 24-year-old construction labourer was found dead with injuries at a building site in Maduravoyal early on Sunday. The police have detained his girlfriend and a co-worker for questioning.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
TCS announces 6-8% average salary hike; top-rated employees see 10% increase
THE Tata Consultancy Services has rolled out salary hikes of 6-8% for employees in India, even as its staff across the company continue to report lower variable pay, tighter compensation policies and growing pressure linked to AI-led productivity targets.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Diversion of 35 hectares of forest land sought for Cauvery barrage project
THE water resources department (WRD) has sought diversion of 35.79 hectares of forest land in Namakkal district for the construction of a flood protection embankment linked to the Nanjai Pugalur barrage project across Cauvery river in Karur.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
ILAIYARAAJA TO COMPOSE FOR KARTHIK SUBBARAJ
WE had previously reported about Karthik Subbaraj joining hands with Guneet Monga and Achin Jain’s Sikhya Entertainment banner for his next film.
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May 19, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Semmalai quits party, cites leaders' ego & lack of unity
FORMER minister and senior AIADMK leader S Semmalai (80) on Monday resigned from his party post and announced his exit from the party, saying that the absence of collective decision-making and internal feuds had led to the steady weakening of the organisation.
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