Despite years of pleas by locals, library in Perali yet to get permanent building
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·14 Sept 2026
PERAMBALUR: With a rural library in Perali village functioning from a panchayat building for over five years, residents have urged the authorities to provide it with a permanent building and basic...
Hebbal short tunnel work picks up pace
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·14 Sept 2026
BENGALURU: Despite the legal challenge, concerns over about 893 trees to be affected, and proposed use of 3.45 acres of Hebbal Lake land, work on the 2.2-km short tunnel project connecting Esteem...
1,732 foot amputations performed on diabetics in Tiruchy in the last three years
New Indian Expressby Pearson Lenekar SR·14 Sept 2026
TIRUCHY: Tamil Nadu’s ‘Padham Padhukappom Thittam’, aimed at preventing serious diabetic foot complications through early screening and intervention, has been used to identify and treat patients at...
For a roof of their own: Why Karnataka's Koraga families are still without homes
New Indian Expressby Vincent D’ Souza·14 Sept 2026
MANGALURU: More than 100 years ago, social reformer Kudmul Ranga Rao bought land in parts of present-day Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts to build houses and schools for the Koraga community...
Funds allocated after six years, Rani Mangammal’s Darbar Hall renovation to gather pace
New Indian Expressby D Vincent Arockiaraj·14 Sept 2026
TIRUCHY: The renovation of Rani Mangammal’s Darbar Hall, which houses the Government Museum, which dragged on for six years, will gather pace soon as the union and state governments have allocated...
Automatic number plate recognition cameras deployed to monitor speeding in Coimbatore
New Indian Expressby R Kirubakaran·14 Sept 2026
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore city traffic police have now converted Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras into handy 'speed radar guns' and fixed them for random overspeed monitoring.
Remembering the pioneer of Pattimandram
New Indian Expressby Sonu M Kothari·14 Sept 2026
For generations of Tamil households, no Pongal, Tamil Puthandu, Deepavali, Ayudha Poojai, or Vinayagar Chaturthi was complete without Solomon Pappaiah’s familiar voice ringing through the...
Festive demand pushes flower prices in Dharmapuri
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·14 Sept 2026
DHARMAPURI: Flower prices have skyrocketed in Dharmapuri's wholesale and retail markets, ahead of Vinayagar Chaturthi celebrations.
Fighting in Yemen intensifies, and Houthis launch more attacks on Saudi Arabia
New Indian Expressby Associated Press·14 Sept 2026
ADEN: The conflict in Yemen intensified on Sunday, as government forces launched attacks against Iran-backed Houthi rebels along the Red Sea and Houthis fired into neighboring Saudi Arabia, which...
Sweden's election too close to call as far right loses ground
New Indian Expressby AFP·14 Sept 2026
STOCKHOLM: Sweden's general election was too close to call early Monday, as the incumbent prime minister and the left-wing opposition leader both said they were ready to govern and the far right...
Eviction ahead of consecration leaves street vendors around Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple in lurch
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·14 Sept 2026
MADURAI: Hundreds of street vendors who depend on the festival season to earn a significant share of their annual income have been left struggling after being evicted from the roads surrounding the...
Sri Vaikuntam Court building crumbles, reconstruction delayed for over a decade
New Indian Expressby S Godson Wisely Dass·14 Sept 2026
THOOTHUKUDI: The Srivaikuntam combined court building is in a dilapidated condition and has been lacking basic amenities for over 10 years.
An Invitation to Listen Above and Beyond
New Indian Expressby Deepa Chakravarthy·14 Sept 2026
Have you ever sat in a darkened theater and watched an opera unfold? Have you noticed how the music builds its sense of grand scale?
Stand was taken by BCCI, we are united and standing by it: Amol Muzumdar after India women refuse to receive trophy from Naqvi
New Indian Expressby Gomesh S·13 Sept 2026
CHENNAI: Shortly after India refused to receive the Women's T20 Asia Cup Trophy from Asian Cricket Council chief Mohsin Naqvi, head coach Amol Muzumdar said that the decision was BCCI's call and...
Eyes on bullseye: Young India aim to make a mark in Asian Games
New Indian Expressby Chandra Prabhu·13 Sept 2026
CHENNAI: Back in 2023, Indian archers made history at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. They returned with nine medals (five gold, two silver and two bronze.
Power shortage deepens in Keralam as KSEB explores costly purchases
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·13 Sept 2026
KOZHIKODE: With Kerala witnessing a sharp rise in electricity demand and no matching increase in generation, the state government is examining all available options to prevent the shortage from...
Rebel Trinamool faction MP Basunia, MLA Sangeeta Roy face protests on return to Sitai
New Indian Expressby Subhendu Maiti·13 Sept 2026
KOLKATA: Jagadishchandra Basunia, Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) MP from Cooch Behar in West Bengal, and his wife Sangeeta Roy, a Trinamool Congress MLA from Sitai, faced protests by...
Belief, practice and the many ways of seeing
New Indian Expressby Makarand R Paranjape·13 Sept 2026
As the world remembers the horrific Islamist terrorist strikes against the United States on 9/11 twenty-five years ago, we in India also remember how, in 1893, Swami Vivekananda addressed the...
Language policy must reflect India's realities
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·13 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court’s query last month on whether English should be placed in the non-native language basket prompted the government to raise its guard last week.
Faithline | Tales of the tusk
New Indian Expressby Renuka Narayanan·13 Sept 2026
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi, dear readers. This time, it could be interesting to revisit Ganesha stories, both at home and across the sea.
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