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Under the twinkling stars! Night weddings signal cool shift in Kerala's tradition

The New Indian Express Kollam

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February 19, 2025

IN a refreshing departure from traditional daytime weddings, 26-year-old Gowri J S from Thiruvananthapuram exchanged vows with her long-time love, Arjun S, on January 25, under the night sky.

- RAHUL R @Kollam

Their wedding, held in an open venue under the stars, signals a growing trend among younger couples to go for a cooler, more relaxed alternative to the conventional Kerala wedding.

Once considered taboo, "sundown weddings" are emerging as a practical and stylish option. And with heatwaves becoming more frequent, many couples are embracing cooler evenings for their special day.

MEER VERHALEN VAN The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

321kg gold smuggled through 7 main routes seized in 10 months, says DRI

THE Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has uncovered an increasingly sophisticated gold smuggling operation spanning continents. Between January and October this year, DRI intercepted and seized around 321kg of smuggled gold, valued at ₹406.35 crore.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

More girls in govt-run CBSE schools, says secy

IT is crucial that society invest more in the education of the girl child, according to the Union Secretary of Education and Literacy, Sanjay Kumar.

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2 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

'Abhay' for anonymity: How Maoists evade police action

ENGLISH playwright William Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet, \"What's in a name?\" For the outlawed CPI (Maoist), the answer is everything. Names, often assumed or symbolic, are a tool of survival, strategy, and connection with the communities in which they operate.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

U’khand village puts cap on wedding expenses

TO curb the rising expenses and the culture of showiness at social ceremonies, the residents of Kandhar village in Uttarakhand's tribal region of Jaunsar-Bawar have passed a social bylaw limiting the gold jewellery married women can wear at weddings and family functions.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

TAKE AI’S HELP FOR SPEEDY JUSTICE

EW phrases encapsulate the despair of the Indian litigant more powerfully than Sunny Deol's anguished outburst in Damini: \"Tareekh pe tareekh\" (hearing after hearing).

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3 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

16-yr-old sprinter breaks 37-yr-old record

AS THE crowd at Chandrasekhar Nair Stadium dispersed on Thursday, Athul T M, the new record holder in 100m Junior Boys, spotted Ram Kumar.

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1 min

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

Kohli’s twin failures, Sharma’s fifty talking points in India’s loss

IT'S hard to find context in an ODI bilateral series with no major events scheduled in that format for the next two years.

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3 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

Trump factor leads PM to duck Malaysia trip, says Cong

THE Congress on Thursday claimed that the reason for Prime Minister Narendra Modi not travelling to Malaysia for the Asean summit was that he does not want to be cornered by US President Donald Trump.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

High on drugs, Indian-origin truck driver kills three in US crash; held

A 21-year-old Indian-origin truck driver, Jashanpreet Singh, who had reportedly entered the US illegally in 2022, has been arrested for causing a semi-truck crash in California's Ontario that snuffed out three lives and injured at least four other people on Tuesday.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

'United' MahaYuti to contest BMC polls

WITH the Thackeray cousins, Uddhav and Raj, reportedly warming up to each other and hints of a possible alliance in the upcoming BMC elections, the BJP is disinclined to go solo and favours the MahaYuti constituents contesting together to avoid splitting Hindutva and pro-government votes.

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1 mins

October 23, 2025

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