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Three Indian sailors dead after US attack on ship off Oman coast; MEA summons top US diplomat
Delhi HC quashes FIR, ED case against ‘NewsClick’, Prabir Purkayastha

Is Mamata-led TMC set to return to Congress fold? Buzz intensifies after two meetings
Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge presses RSS on registration, asks why BJP is answering for Sangh
Deve Gowda says BJP’s Rajya Sabha snub will not affect NDA ties or his support for Modi
‘Case does not exist’: Congress after meeting EC over rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan’s Rajya Sabha nomination
Tenant farmers in Telangana struggle amid soaring lease costs, policy gaps: Survey
Karnataka assigns responsibilities for senior officials in Chief Minister’s Secretariat
Thiruvananthapuram Corporation BJP councillor arrested in attempt to murder case; police fire in air amid protest
Karnataka reshuffles senior bureaucracy, assigns additional charge in key departments
After Adani, now news of how Ambani dollars might have sweetened Trump administration
Heavy rains lash Hyderabad; daily life across IT corridors, low-lying areas disrupted
Veteran Tamil filmmaker-actor Bharathiraja passes away at 84
Weather update: Forecast for Southern cities on 10 June
‘Puthuvazhikal’: CPI(M) opens doors to public opinion after poll debacle
Who sank Meenakshi Natarajan’s Rajya Sabha bid? BJP points to Congress infighting in Telangana
ACB raids Telangana R&B Chief Engineer J Balu’s residences
Vizag steel plant tragedy: Tensions escalate as Left leaders, union representatives confront Minister Lokesh
Sabarimala gold case: SIT set to file final report, focus shifts to ‘stripping salt’ probe
TN Speaker Prabhakar drops action against 21 AIADMK MLAs after Edappadi pardon
Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar’s ‘apple toss’ sparks social media backlash
‘We answered the questions. Did anyone read them?’ Students say CBSE’s digital rollout triggered an academic blackout
ED summons Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter T Veena in connection with the CMRL-Exalogic case
Kerala on high alert as Shigella cases rise in Kozhikode, Wayanad; children hit hard
Arrests of Congress and NCP workers, including MP, in Lakshadweep spark concerns over right to peaceful protest
US judge strikes down President Trump’s $10,000 fee on H1B visa applications
Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy visits Vizag Steel plant, orders inquiry and assures support to victims

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Black flag-waving Youth Congress workers managed to get close to Amit Shah's convoy. — SIR row: Black flags greet Amit Shah in Kollam; five Youth Congress activists held

Researchers described the current El Niño event as a preview of conditions climate change might usher in within 20 years. (iStock) — Super El Niño: Karnataka may lose 1,870 lives, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala 1,680 each

Local body polls — By-elections: 38 local body wards across Keralam to vote on Monday

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant at the Open House in Patna on Friday. — Judiciary committed to protecting students’ fundamental rights: CJI Surya Kant

Vadakara MDMA case's second accused stabbed — Vadakara MDMA case’s second accused stabbed outside police station by partner

CDSCO's NSQ section of the August alert contained 220 entries covering medicines, injections, medical devices and other products. — Fake drugs in the market? CDSCO flags blood pressure drug Telma AM ‘spurious’, 220 medicine batches fail tests

An image of the Hyderabad Municipal Solid Waste Energy Solutions Private Limited Waste-to-Energy Plant at Jawaharnagar — CURE Act doubles down on waste-to-energy plants despite violations, protests and environmental concerns

Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, The Hague Group — As Trump takes aim at ICC, Hague Group calls for ‘renewed UN body’ to defend international law

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Keralam Chief Minister VD Satheesan. — Kerala police bar journalists from questioning CM Satheesan

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin stands with members of the Justice Kurian Joseph-led High-Level Committee after receiving the committee’s report at the Secretariat. — Does TN Law Minister CTR Nirmal Kumar want to end the Kurian Joseph Committee?

Hema Committee Report — Another Mollywood storm brews as a book on Hema Committee set to expose fresh fault lines

The freedom of a university is ultimately tested not by its prospectus but by what happens when someone disagrees with authority. — Free to think? When public universities lose their freedom

File photo of billboards reading boycott of 2026 Tamil Nadu elections plastered in the village. (Supplied) — South First impact: Virudhunagar village caste-name issue moves towards renaming

Love your tea/coffee scalding hot? The habit might be tripling your risk of oesophageal cancer

INCOIS has warned of 1 to 1.5-metre-high waves and swell surge activity from 2.30 am on 26 September to 2.30 am on 28 September. — Swell surge threat: Red alert along Keralam coast

SIR row: NDA allies, YSRCP demand clarification to regain confidence