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The New Indian Express
Relationship with India, Pakistan unchanged: US
AMID its deepening strategic salience with Pakistan, the US on Wednesday said there is no change in its relationship with either India or Pakistan.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express
SC order not a quick fix, ineffective ABCs, lack of data worsen crisis
To cater to Chennai's 1.8 lakh strays, there are only five ABC centres that can perform 10,000 surgeries each a year
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express
Protests must be held at designated venues, says CJ
HOURS before sanitation workers protesting outside Ripon Buildings were evicted on Wednesday night, the Madras High Court ordered the State government to remove them for occupying roads and pavements without permission.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express
Day after arrest, mayor's husband admitted to hosp
A day after he was arrested by SIT police in Chennai in connection with the property tax scam case and brought to Madurai, P Ponvasanth (49), husband of Madurai mayor Indirani, was admitted to GRH on Wednesday after he complained of uneasiness.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express
No foreign intervention, Lebanon's president tells Iran official
Lebanon's president told a top Iranian security official Wednesday that Beirut rejects any foreign intervention in its internal affairs and wants Lebanon to remain stable and secure for the good of its people.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express
India backs 'weak' draft of plastic treaty
ON the eve of the penultimate day of negotiations for a legally binding global plastics treaty, talks are in deadlock — and India has thrown its weight behind the petrochemical-producing Like-Minded Countries (LMC), accepting a weakened draft text that drops production caps and chemical controls as merely a \"starting point\" for talks.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express
No barricades, 3 of a family die in car crash in Tiruvallur
THREE of a family, including a nine-month-old infant, were killed and three others hurt in a car crash at a road-widening project site near Pallipattu in Tiruvallur district on Tuesday morning.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express
V-C appointments: Guv, UGC file responses in SC
IN the high-stakes legal battle over the appointment of university vice chancellors (V-Cs) in Tamil Nadu, both the governor and the University Grants Commission (UGC) filed detailed submissions recently in the state government's special leave petition (SLP) being heard by the Supreme Court.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Nepal Has Opened 97 Previously Restricted Peaks to Climbers!
This initiative is part of a broader set of changes to Nepal's mountaineering regulations in 2025
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
IMD Issues Red Alert for Flash Floods, Warns of Cloudbursts in Uttarakhand
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has raised a red alert, cautioning against an imminent threat of flash floods across the Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Bihar and Sikkim in eastern India, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the south and some parts of Maharashtra.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
I Can Become World Champion: Anish
Dutch player is also looking forward to World Rapid & Blitz at the end of the year apart from Classical world cycle
4 min |
August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
HC orders man's release after SC freed co-convicts
THE Madras High Court has ordered the release of a convict in a case of dacoity and murder since his co-convicts were released based on the orders of the Supreme Court commuting their sentence from life imprisonment to 10 years.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Fill up 10 lakh teachers' vacancies in schools, House panel tells govt
THE Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education has called upon the Education Department to fill up the 10 lakh teaching posts lying vacant in the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)-funded schools of various states.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
DMK allies to boycott guv's I-Day reception
THE Congress, CPM, CPI, Viduthalai Chiruthaikal Katchi and Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK) have announced they will boycott the 'At home' reception to be hosted by Governor RN Ravi on the Independence Day.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
GCC Says Acceding to Workers' Salary Demand Would Cost ₹164 Crore a Year
BESIDES regularisation of employment, the other key demand of conservancy workers protesting against Greater Chennai Corporation's move to privatise solid waste management in two zones has been to ensure that their present salary of nearly ₹23,000 per month is not reduced.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Thejeshwar slams century
THEJESHWAR Ganesh's unbeaten 128 helped GE T&D India S & RC to beat Sumangali Homes by five wickets in a fourth division match of the TNCA league.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
A Production In Loving Memory
In 2018, Chennai witnessed a historical performance by Pandit Birju Maharaj. Under his presence, a disciple, Guru Neha Banerjee, conceived a festival dedicated to preserving and promoting the art of Kathak in its purest form, 'Smriti'. Neha recalls, \"Looking at the position of Kathak in the city, we thought it would be a very good idea to promote it here.\"
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Maitreyan joins DMK, says AIADMK under Delhi control
FORMER AIADMK MP Dr V Maitreyan joined the DMK on Wednesday after meeting party president and Chief Minister MK Stalin at Anna Arivalayam, the party headquarters here.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
IOA Approves 2030 Bid
TWENTY years after 2010, India is set to host the Commonwealth Games in 2030.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
BPCL Reports Highest-Ever Quarterly Profit
BHARAT Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) on Wednesday reported a strong rise in profit for the April-June quarter of the current financial year (Q1FY26), with net profit more than doubling compared to the same period last year.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Amid US tariff tussle, India engages with China, Russia
FM Wang in Delhi on Aug 18; Jaishankar set for Moscow visit on Aug 20
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Cash-strapped Mann govt to raise funds against properties
AFTER the scrapping of the controversial land pooling scheme, the cash-strapped Punjab government finds itself in a dilemma as it attempts to mop up revenue to fund their welfare schemes.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
European powers ready to reimpose sanctions on Iran
BRITAIN, France and Germany have told the United Nations they are ready to reimpose UN-mandated sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme if no diplomatic solution is found by the end of August, according to a joint letter.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Grief lingering at memory's edge
Returning to Phnom Penh in order to fly out of it, the question presented itself again: did I want to visit sites where the Khmer Rouge's genocide had been memorialised? Nearby: Tuol Sleng, also known as S21, a school-turned-detention centre. Not far: the mass graves of the Killing Fields.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Commission's Worrying Omissions
No other democratic country has the institution that conducts elections been under such a harsh spotlight as the Election Commission of India (ECI) is today.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
This espionage thriller is a hit-and-miss
N a hilarious scene in Netflix's latest spy-thriller series, Saare Jahan Se Accha, one of RAW's undercover operatives in Pakistan loses it towards his handlers. \"My body would have been floating in some gutter, and you guys would still be busy changing soaps.\" It's a reference to an earlier sequence, where he finds a message from his bosses inside a soap cake.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Add a Word to the Preamble, Don't Subtract 2
India@79 | A centralised state or narrow provincialism weren't among India's founding visions. Time to reconsider the case for a 'federal' union that Constituent Assembly member K T Shah made
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Tejashwi, Dy CM lock horns over twin EPIC cards
VERBAL exchanges between Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Vijay Kumar Sinha and RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav have heated the ongoing political row over double EPIC cards in the state.
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Chennai's Marina Beach Awarded Blue Flag Certification for World-Class Standards
New additions include a meditation centre, a reading room, outdoor gym equipment and children's play equipment and much more
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August 14, 2025
The New Indian Express Chennai
Very severe consequences unless Putin halts Ukraine war: Trump
Viable chance for truce, says Starmer after talks with US president
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