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India vs SA: Focus on team combo ahead of 1st ODI
RISHABH Pant's place in the playing eleven is far from guaranteed, while Washington Sundar and Nitish Kumar Reddy are locked in a tight contest for the additional all-rounder's slot as India confront several selection dilemmas ahead of the first ODI versus South Africa.
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November 29, 2025
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CUTTING DELAYS, WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MEDIATORS
NDIA gets a new Chief Justice as it marks the 76th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution.
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November 29, 2025
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Madras univ to use corpus fund to clear benefit dues
IN a decisive move driven by mounting judicial pressure, the syndicate of the University of Madras on Friday approved the use of its corpus fund along with a fresh ₹20-crore government grant to clear terminal benefits pending for nearly a decade.
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November 29, 2025
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Rajaa lays foundation for 'Cube', says CM likely to open Fintech Tower in Jan
INDUSTRIES Minister TRB Rajaa on Thursday said the Fintech Tower, part of the government's Fintech City project, is likely to be inaugurated by Chief Minister MK Stalin in January.
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November 28, 2025
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Modi, Shah to attend 3-day DGP conference in C’garh
PM Narendra Modi & Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the All India Conference of Director Generals and Inspector Generals of Police on Nov 29-30 at Indian Institute of Management, Nava Raipur.
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November 28, 2025
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
WHEN A CLEAN-UP BECOMES A MESS
A year ago, the idea of a massive nationwide exercise to visit every single household to verify, add, or delete voters was not on anyone’s radar. After all, the Narendra Modi government did not even conduct the mandatory dec-adal census. Chief Election Commi sioner Gyanesh Kumar took charge in February 2025 and, for three months, did not utter the term ‘special intensive revision’ (SIR). Suddenly, one day in June, the CEC announced a nationwide SIR beginning with Bihar. Why so suddenly and so hastily?
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November 28, 2025
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HEAVY RAIN ALERT FOR THREE DAYS CYCLONE DITWAH HURTLING TOWARDS TN-PONDY COAST
THE deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm, Ditwah, and is very likely to reach southwest Bay of Bengal near north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coasts early on Sunday morning, the Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, said. 'Ditwah' or 'Detwah' refers to a lagoon on Socotra Island in Yemen.
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November 28, 2025
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Work on remains of antiquity at Dwarka begins
A fresh round of onshore and offshore expeditions at ancient heritage sites in Gujarat’s Dwarka and Bet Dwarka has begun.
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November 28, 2025
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All voters who submit SIR forms by Dec 4 will feature in draft roll: CEO
REQUESTING the voters in the state to submit their completed enumeration forms at the earliest, Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik, on Thursday, clarified that names of those who fail to do so by December 4 will not figure in the draft electoral rolls to be published on December 9.
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November 28, 2025
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Drive to identify illegal foreign nationals in UP, detention camps soon
THE Uttar Pradesh government is launching a large-scale identification drive against illegal immigrants, beginning in western UP’s Rohilkhand region. The operation will cover Bareilly, Badaun, Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur districts under the Bareilly division.
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November 28, 2025
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Tribal youth make it big, conquer peak in Himachal Pir Panjal range
A group of tribal youths hailing from Jashpur—most of whom had never seen snow or experienced high-altitude terrain—returned with a historic achievement that filled all of Chhattisgarh with pride.
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November 28, 2025
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SWISS HOCKEY CROWDFUND THEIR WAY TO WC
SWITZERLAND'S command over the sporting world cannot be ignored. Some of the top sport-governing bodies like FIFA, International Olympic Committee (IOC) and even the international hockey federation (FIH) are all based in the country. The national football teams are regulars in top international tournaments. The country is also home to argua-
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November 28, 2025
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
Aadhaar for age check to watch online content
THE Supreme Court on Thursday indicated the need for an autonomous regulatory body to oversee what can be allowed as online content, while suggesting that Aadhaar could be used to verify viewers’ ages for programs considered “obscene”.
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November 28, 2025
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Stalin presents awards, lays foundation for HR&CE projects
CHIEF Minister MK Stalin on Thursday presented the Children’s Welfare-Service Awards for 2025 to Thanjavur Annai Sathya Ammayar Memorial Government Children’s Home, Thoothukudi St Mary’s Mercy Home, the Chennai Government Observation Home and the Ramanathapuram District Child Protection Unit. Each received a certificate and a cheque for %1 lakh. Awards were presented across four categories: government-run children’s homes, homes run by voluntary organisations, homes for children in conflict with the law and district child protection units.
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November 28, 2025
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Punjab village’s stubble management hailed
UNION Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday congratulated Punjab for achieving an 83 percent reduction in stubble-burning cases, calling the state’s progress a model that should be followed across the country. During his visit to several parts of Punjab, he met farmers, reviewed rural development work, and said the state had shown that determined community efforts could bring real change.
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November 28, 2025
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2-child norm, no-tax dues must for contesting civic body polls
AS Jharkhand gears up for Municipal polls next year, the State Election Commission has issued guidelines for the same, stating that candidates with more than two children will be barred from contesting elections, if the last child was born after February 9, 2013.
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November 28, 2025
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Food services to be $125 billion mkt by 2030; organised players to gain big
INDIA'S food services market size will grow to $125 billion by 2030, with the organised segment growing at 2x that of the unorganised segment, said foodtech major Swiggy in its annual report titled “How India Eats” in partnership with Kearney.
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November 28, 2025
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Land docus to have high resolution satellite images
TAMIL Nadu has launched an effort to further modernise the way land records are maintained by significantly increasing the transparency and efficiency using high-resolution satellite images with a resolution of 30cm, which can offer granular details, covering the entire 1.3 lakh square kilometre of the state.
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November 28, 2025
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Polytechnic grads to be made language-ready for Germany & Japan
WITH an aim to boost overseas employability, the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE) will soon introduce foreign language training, including German and Japanese, for students in government polytechnic colleges.
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November 28, 2025
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GROUNDWATER URANIUM NEEDS URGENT MITIGATION
A multi-agency study by Indian researchers published in Nature has found high levels of radioactive uranium-238 in breast-milk samples in Bihar.
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November 28, 2025
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Civil servants vital for Viksit Bharat, must operate across sectors: Mishra
CIVIL services stand at the heart of India’s journey towards Viksit Bharat and officers must think across domains, operate across sectors, and anchor their work in humility, integrity, and purpose, P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, said on Thursday.
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November 28, 2025
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Cong Bihar meet sees heated debate over 'selling of tickets, friendly fights'
DISCONTENT within the Bihar Congress surfaced sharply at the party’s first post-election review meeting, where several candidates flagged flaws in ticket allocation, selling of tickets and ‘friendly fights’ between allies as main reasons for the humiliating defeat in the recent Assembly polls.
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November 28, 2025
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Constitution a guiding vision for India's rise, says Prez
PRESIDENT Droupadi Murmu and Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan reminded the nation on Constitution Day on Wednesday that India's democratic spirit, rooted in its people and its Constitution, continues to guide the country's ambitious journey toward becoming a developed nation.
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November 27, 2025
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Finish Sathankulam trial in 3 months: HC to judge
NOTING that nearly four-and-a-half years had lapsed since the commencement of trial in Sathankulam Jeyaraj-Beniks custodial death case, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the trial court in Madurai to complete the trial in the case within three months 'without fail'.
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November 27, 2025
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EC concerned over Bengal CEO's safety, Didi ups ante
EXPRESSING serious concern over a security breach at the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office, the national poll body on Wednesday sought an action-taken report (ATR) from Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma within 48 hours about the safety of the poll officers.
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November 27, 2025
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Kharif season: Record production of rice, but oilseeds & pulse output down
THE agriculture ministry said the country's rice production during the kharif season that ended in October reached a record 124.
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November 27, 2025
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CJI says will 'consider' petition to revive NJAC, end collegium system
THE Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will consider a plea to revive the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) to replace the current collegium system for appointment of judges in the higher judiciary.
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November 27, 2025
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No SC quota for migrants in U'khand jobs: HC
THE Uttarakhand High Court has ruled that a scheduled caste (SC) woman from another state is not entitled to reservation benefits in Uttarakhand where she has settled after marriage.
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November 27, 2025
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Reservation row in J&K as Open Merit gets 40% quota of finance dept posts
THE row over reservation policies in Jammu and Kashmir has flared up again after the Finance Department advertised 600 posts of Accounts Assistants, with only 240 of those allocated to the Open Merit (OM) category.
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November 27, 2025
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₹95cr pension arrears: HC tells secy to appear in court
THE Madras High Court has ordered the state finance secretary T Udhayachandran to personally appear before the court on December 5, in connection with a petition related to delay in settling long-pending pension benefits to the retired staff of University of Madras.
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