NGT notice to Vallur Thermal Plant over hot effluent discharge
New Indian Expressby SV Krishna Chaitanya·25d ago
CHENNAI: The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has admitted an application alleging that the 1,500 MW Vallur Thermal Power Project, operated by NTPC Tamil Nadu Energy Company...
Fair skin, curly hair can’t be used to determine religion or caste: Madras HC
New Indian Expressby R Sivakumar·25d ago
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has said that physical features like fair skin, tall stature, good physique and curly hair cannot be used to determine an individual’s caste or religion.
May reconsider support for Tamil Nadu government if it continues to act unilaterally: CPM
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·25d ago
CHENNAI: The CPM may be forced to reconsider its support for the TVK government if it continues to ignore the views of opposition parties and that of the public, and takes decisions unilaterally...
State did its bit, now Centre must waive off farm loans, says G Parameshwara
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·25d ago
TUMAKURU/BENGALURU: Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwara on Saturday urged the Centre to waive farm loans across the country, saying that the Karnataka government had already waived interest on...
CIAL plans next-gen cargo village in expansion move
New Indian Expressby Varsha Somaraj·25d ago
KOCHI: Envisaging to scale up cargo handling, storage and supply-chain operations, the Cochin Internation Airport Limited (CIAL), as part of its new 25-year master plan, has decided to develop a...
AI traffic camera project stalls over arrears in Kerala
New Indian Expressby Unnikrishnan S·25d ago
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The much-vaunted ‘Safe Kerala’ initiative has hit a wall, with implementing agency Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation (Keltron) suspending its operation of the...
Nambike Nakshe 2.0: Building plan approvals to take 30 minutes
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·25d ago
BENGALURU: Building plan approvals for eligible residential properties in Bengaluru could now take around 30 minutes instead of two to three months, with the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA)...
Express Dialogues | ‘Malayalis blindly believe everything that comes in the media’
New Indian Expressby Team TNIE·25d ago
Writer Paul Zacharia needs no introduction to Malayalis. At 16, he made a striking entry into literature. Over six decades later, he continues to engage readers across the globe.
Army officer Samadhan Thorat completes Ironman 70.3, qualifies for world championship
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·25d ago
BENGALURU: For Samadhan Babasaheb Thorat, an Indian Army officer currently stationed at the Army Service Corps (ASC) Centre in Bengaluru, competing professionally in any sport – let alone an...
Hassan bookshop rewards students with books, promotes reading and Kannada language
New Indian Expressby BR Udaya Kumar·25d ago
HASSAN: Here is a bookshop with a difference. Every year, Akshara Book House in Hassan city honours meritorious SSLC and PU students with ‘Akshara Puraskaras’ by giving them books worth Rs 1,500...
Road accidents kill five since Friday night in Bengaluru
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·25d ago
BENGALURU: In four separate accidents in and around the city, five persons, including two engineering students, died since Friday night.
Gaza health officials say four killed in Israeli strikes, including child
New Indian Expressby AFP·25d ago
Gaza's health officials said on Saturday that Israeli fire killed at least four people in the Palestinian territory, including a 10-year-old girl and the son of a top government official.
The elegant wit of understatement
New Indian Expressby Ravi Shankar·25d ago
Some books tell a story; others let you enjoy the telling. Shivani Sibal’s Moms belongs to the second category.
Survivor’s Guilt and Sisterly Silence in Sian Hughes’ Tale of a Daddy’s Girl
New Indian Expressby Sheila Kumar·25d ago
In No Such Thing as Monday, Sian Hughes, whose earlier novel Pearl was longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, spins a tale that has the reader so engrossed, they will need to shake themselves out of...
The secret pulse of plants
New Indian Expressby Aradhika Sharma·25d ago
At a time when environmental thinkers are re-examining humanity’s relationship with the natural world, The Man Who Made Plants Write feels unexpectedly contemporary.
Kindness isn’t Absence of Friction. Candour is
New Indian Expressby Shampa Dhar Kamath·25d ago
I recently read about leaders who soft-pedal hard messages just to keep the peace. Makes sense. Positivity is much easier to swallow than criticism. The same thing happens in homes too.
Glossy Yet Incurious
New Indian Expressby BH Harsh·25d ago
The OTT landscape has slowly divided not just the storytelling form but also the audience into two.
The Republic of the Plate
New Indian Expressby Ravi Shankar·25d ago
Food is worth considering as food for thought. No country on earth has turned the question of what to eat into as combustible a civilisational argument as India has.
Genetics of Love-Jihad and Love-Jauhar
New Indian Expressby Devdutt Pattanaik·25d ago
Twenty years ago, the phrase ‘Love-Jihad’ entered the Indian public sphere. The underlying idea was that Hindu women were being enchanted into marrying Muslim men.
The new collectors’ club
New Indian Expressby Samiya Chopra·25d ago
For decades, collecting Indian art had a hereditary grammar—family collections, old-money networks, and museum-approved masters.
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