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The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
5 Drown as Van Plunges into Well Near Sathankulam
As many as five people, including a one-and-a-half-year-old baby, drowned in an open farm well when the Omni van they were travelling in plunged into the 55-foot-deep roadside well at Meerankulam near Sathankulam here on Saturday.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Aranthangi model school's alarming slide in results sparks public outcry
HAILED once as a model government institution in the district, the Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Aranthangi has found itself in the midst of an academic collapse, as 242 of its students across classes 10, 11 and 12 failed in the board examinations in 2024-2025.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Weapon Hawkers' Gain, India's Pain
He fuel of wealth is power. For centuries, empires justified conquest in the name of civilisation. In the 20th century, war became a business—refined, repackaged, and sold by the industrial elite in boardrooms far removed from trenches and bomb sites. The modern deep state is the inheritor of empires; but is more efficient, more cynical. Its battlefield is the global economy; its weapon is legislation.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
SC nixes Trump bid for fast Venezuelan deportations
Court indefinitely extends deportation ban at Texas facility under alien enemies law; case heads back to 5th Circuit for further review
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Hisar YouTuber arrested for spying for Pak, leaking info
AT least 10 people, including Hisar-based YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, have been arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
20 Maoists Held With Arms in T'gana
POLICE from Venkatapuram, Kannaigudem and Wazeedu police stations have arrested 20 members of the banned CPI (Maoist) group — reportedly fleeing the Karregutta forest area — and recovered a sizeable cache of arms and ammunition from them.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Tata Power's Nellai solar plant sets benchmark
The Tirunelveli-based plant operated by Tata Power's solar manufacturing arm, TP Solar, produced 3.3 gigawatts (GW) of solar modules and 846 megawatts (MW) of solar cells in the financial year ending March 2025, marking one of the highest domestic outputs in India's solar sector.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Tharoor to visit US, Kanimozhi Russia to expose Pak terror link
REFLECTING a collective resolve against terrorism, the Centre on Saturday finalised seven delegations comprising 59 MPs, including some former diplomats from across political parties, to lead India's mission abroad.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Transfer Tasmac cases to CBI, says Anbumani
PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss has urged the state government to transfer all 40 cases registered by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) regarding alleged irregularities in Tasmac to the CBI for a fair probe.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
10 escape from New Orleans jail via hole in wall; 3 nabbed
TEN men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food, authorities said.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Sindoor outreach: 'Honoured' Kani to lead MPs' team
DMK deputy general secretary and MP Kanimozhi on Saturday said she is honoured to represent India and lead one of the seven delegations announced by the union government to visit various countries and the United Nations Security Council, in the context of Operation Sindoor and India's continued fight against terrorism.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
The Tantric in the Thangka
Tibetan artist Anay Ngawang Chodak combines the meditative power of Buddhist art with contemporary imagery and sensibilities
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Can't help economies of nations working against India, says Dhankhar
Amid growing calls to boycott products from, and travel to, Turkey for allegedly supporting Pakistan against India, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, without explicitly naming Turkey, asserted on Saturday that India should not afford to engage with countries that stand against it in times of crisis.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
A judge can't ignore ground realities, says CJI
CHIEF Justice of India BR Gavai has put a stop to the practice that senior judges, including the CJI, are not supposed to hold court hearings during summer vacation.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Guj minister's son held for ₹71-cr scam
A ₹71-crore scam under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been unearthed in Gujarat, implicating the family of state panchayat and agriculture minister Bachu Khabad.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
DVAC raids properties of ex-min, former AIADMK MLA in DA cases
THE DVAC on Saturday raided the premises of former AIADMK minister and party's Arani MLA Sevoor S Ramachandran in Tiruvannamalai district and former AIADMK MLA P Neethipathi's premises in Usilampatti in Madurai district.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Dancing in rain with Kohli name on back in B'luru
IN the end, the match ended without a ball being bowled.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Irrigation facilities survey begins in Tiruchy
WITH the date for opening the shutters of the Mettur reservoir approaching, a training session was organised in Thuraiyur of the district on Friday to survey irrigation facilities such as wells, borewells, ponds, tanks, canals and lakes.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
₹68 cr Woraiyur-Kudamurutti new link road work commences
IN a significant move to ease traffic congestion on the Panjappur route, Minister for Municipal Administration KN Nehru on Saturday performed the 'bhoomi pooja' for the construction of a new road connecting Woraiyur to Kudamurutti for ₹68 crore.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Putin-Zelenskyy Meet Only After Deal, Says Russia
The Kremlin on Saturday said a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be possible only after both sides reach an agreement, a day after Moscow and Kyiv held their first direct talks in more than three years, which did not result in a truce.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Despite reservation, CPM now joins India's diplomatic outreach on Pak
'PM to met only CMs of BJP-ruled states'
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Stop import of Turkish apples, say HP growers
THE apple growers of Himachal Pradesh, who play a key role in making an apple economy worth ₹5,000 crore in the hill state, demanded on Saturday that India halt the import of Turkish apples and avoid further reducing the import tariff on Washington apples.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Huge uproar as engineer's 'divine justice' order goes viral in U'khand
A peculiar office order issued by an Executive Engineer (EE) of the National Highway section of the Public Works Department in Lohaghat, Uttarakhand, has gone viral on social media, causing a significant stir within the department.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Crude oil imports decline 1% to $11.4 billion in April
The country's crude import witnessed a dip of 1% in April 2025 compared to the same month last year, according to a report by the Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell (PPAC).
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
DESPAIR AT DATELINE POONCH
Widespread fears that ceasefire shaky and shelling may resume Families recall four days of horror Locals lament lack of bunkers, war preparedness Hotels open in Rajouri amid uneasy calm but wear a deserted look
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
EPS Echoes BJP's WhatsApp Univ Info: RS Bharathi
DMK organising secretary RS Bharathi criticised AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, accusing him of making baseless allegations against the state government to shield the union government which has failed to release ₹617 crore meant for private schools in Tamil Nadu under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Inside a Web of Lies
Babil Khan on his latest show Logout and his 'toxic' relationship with social media
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Crisis in PMK will end soon, says GK Mani
PATTALI Makkal Katchi (PMK) honorary president GK Mani said on Saturday a tense situation has developed within the party and PMK founder S Ramadoss and son Anbumani Ramadoss will meet soon to resolve it.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Bid to bury alive girl born out of wedlock thwarted in Pudukkottai
A police team here on Saturday thwarted an alleged bid by a 21-year-old woman and her family members to bury alive a girl she had given birth to out of wedlock earlier in the day.
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May 18, 2025
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
Space odyssey: Countdown for Mission 101 ends today
BY the time you are reading this, if all parameters have worked well, India will have achieved the significant milestone with the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) 101st mission, having launched a more sophisticated eye in the sky — the earth observing satellite EOS-09 — on board the launcher PSLV-C61 from the First Launch Pad (FLP) at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, at 5.59 am on Sunday.
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