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The New Indian Express Madurai
26 families return home in Narayanpur, Bastar on edge
THE tense standoff witnessed in Bharanda village of Narayanpur district in Chhattisgarh was finally defused late on Thursday night after a grueling 12-hour negotiation driven by the district administration and senior police officials.
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June 27, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
CENTRE & STATE MUST FUND HYD’BAD METRO TOGETHER
TELANGANA Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s recent meetings in Delhi with Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Urban Development Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy finally broke the deadlock between the Centre and the state over funding the Hyderabad Metro Rail project.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
CO of Rashtriya Rifles, other ranks booked for bashing cops
JAMMU and Kashmir police on Thursday booked 40 army men from 17 Rashtriya Rifles, including its Commanding Officer, a Major and a Naib Subedar for allegedly “assaulting police officers and damaging public property” in a police station in the mountainous Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
C’garh eyes National Ayurveda Hub status, proposes tie-up with Centre
IN a bid to transform Chhattisgarh into a national epicentre for traditional medicine, research, and higher education, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi and proposed setting up a new All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) in the state.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Jamtara-type cybercrime ring busted in Gujarat
GUJARAT police have dismantled a sophisticated cyber fraud syndicate linked to the infamous Jamtara network, exposing a racket that used malicious APK files to infiltrate phones and drain bank accounts.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
PROEM ON BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
IT takes a special kind of ignorance to prance about and pontificate on the nature of being in 2024. To many, the word belongs in the museum—an ontological artefact that always says less than it means and means less than it suggests.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Tourist visas for B'desh nationals after 2 yrs, Cabinet-rank for Indian envoy
INDIA will resume accepting tourist visa applications from Bangladeshi nationals from June 28, nearly two years after suspending the service following attacks on its diplomatic establishments in Bangladesh.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
AI to transform railway safety systems
ARTIFICIAL Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are rapidly transforming the way businesses operate, automating routine tasks, improving efficiency and enabling real-time decision-making.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Despite rise in unicorns, fewer startups get funding in H1
INDIA’S technology startup ecosystem produced more unicorns and faster public listings in the first half of 2026, even as fewer new companies secured funding. Technology startups raised $7.2 billion across 652 equity funding rounds between January and June 24, as per Tracxn.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
CM Vijay flags off 300 new diesel & CNG buses
CHIEF Minister C Joseph Vijay flagged off 300 new buses, procured at a total cost of 127.21 crore, from the state secretariat on Thursday.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
India’s electronics trade deficit increases on low value addition
DESPITE electronics emerging as one of India’s largest export categories, the country continues to remain heavily dependent on imports, with electronics imports exceeding exports by nearly 2.4 times in FY26.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
TRB hiring scam: ED seizes ‡13L, freezes 56 a/cs
AFTER conducting searches at 21 locations across the state, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized ‡13.18 lakh in cash, froze 56 bank accounts and two demat accounts, and recovered documents related to 36 immovable properties with a guidance value of ‡9.67 crore.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Ship hit as Iran warns against unauthorised Hormuz passing
A cargo ship travelling through the Strait of Hormuz on a United Nations-approved route was hit by a projectile on Thursday, the British military said.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Sai Sudharsan's ton takes Ind A to 333/4
A FLUENT century from Sai Sudharsan and unbeaten fifties from skipper Dhruv Jurel and Shaik Rasheed put the India A firmly in control at 333 for four on the opening day of the unofficial Test series against Sri Lanka A here on Thursday.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Mann claims ‘mask’ used in video, SAD & Cong hit back and call it ‘forgery’
PUNJAB Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann claimed on Thursday that a prosthetic mask and sunglasses were used to hide the real identity of the actor who played his role in the controversial video linked to him.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
‘The stairs came away, the whole wall cracked’
“ANTONIO, it’s your mom, I’m right here,” a mother’s desperate cries bounced off the rubble of a 22-story building in Caracas that collapsed following two powerful earthquakes in Venezuela on Wednesday.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Shafali, Radha step up as India keep hopes alive
LESS than 24 hours before she opened the batting against Bangladesh, Shafali Verma made it clear that India knew how to get out of the rut at the Women’s T20 World Cup.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Sindhu breaks NR, Kujur qualifies for Asiad
KARNATAKA'S Sindhushree G created a new national record by leaping 4.25m in the women’s pole vault, pipping national record holder Baranica Elangovan to gold on Day 2 of the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships on Thursday.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Tales of horror, not ‘honour’ at Basha commission hearing
MORE than a decade has passed, but the pain is still fresh in the mind of Jothi Basu, the brother of Amirthavalli who was killed for ‘honour’ along with her husband Palaniyappan and their 40-day-old baby.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Not like watching Brazil but Selecao may like it that way
THE Brazil vs Scotland group encounter at Miami on Wednesday evening had gained significant traction in the days leading up to the match.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
SC upholds SAT relief for ex-Biocon exec
THE Supreme Court has refused to interfere with an order of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) that had granted relief to former Biocon senior executive Shreehas P. Tambe in an insider trading case filed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), while clarifying that the tribunal’s ruling will not be treated as a binding precedent.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Commercial vehicle industry to register single-digit growth in FY27: TaMo MD
TATA MOTORS MD & CEO Girish Wagh said on Thursday that the West Asia crisis, which led to higher diesel prices, will impact domestic commercial vehicle (CV) demand in the short term, but India’s strong macroeconomy will support recovery over the long term.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
US court backs weedkiller and asylum policy
THE Supreme Court sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
₹13.6K crore drug haul in 5 years in Gujarat
AHEAD of the International Day Against Drug Abuse on June 26, Gujarat Police has released staggering figures that underscore the scale of the state’s war against narcotics.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
South Africa stun Korea to make history
SOUTH Africa beat South Korea 1-0 on Wednesday to reach the World Cup knockout rounds for the first time in their history — an astonishing turnaround after a dismal opening defeat.
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June 26, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
AI Delhi-Amritsar flight sent back after entering Pak airspace briefly
WHILE maneuvering a go-around due to heavy traffic congestion, an Air India flight from Delhi to Amritsar briefly entered Pakistani airspace on Monday night, raising alarm bells.
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June 25, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Croatia stay alive, Panama eliminated
THERE wasn’t much open space in Panama’s back line as they tried to keep their World Cup hopes alive.
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June 25, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
ROOFTOP SOLAR THRUST NEEDED FOR GREEN GOAL
A nationwide study has found that the country’s rooftop solar power generation capacity is growing in a markedly lopsided manner.
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June 25, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
HC extends interim stay against DA proceedings against former minister
THE Madras High Court on Wednesday extended the interim stay granted on the proceedings of disproportionate assets (DA) case against former minister and DMK leader Anitha R Radhakrishnan and family members, pending with the principal sessions and district court in Thoothukudi.
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June 25, 2026
The New Indian Express Madurai
Sensex, Nifty gain 1% each on easing geopolitical crisis, cooling oil prices
DOMESTIC equity market recouped Tuesday’s fall with the benchmark indices — NSE Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex — gaining about 1% each on Wednesday.
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