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3 weeks ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Haritha John |Binu Karunakaran
The strongest endorsement for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development (UMEED) Bill, commonly known as the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, came from the Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC), the regional body under the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI).
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4 weeks ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Binu Karunakaran
India’s police force continues to suffer from severe staffing gaps, reveals the India Justice Report (IJR) 2025. As of January 2023, there is a 23% national shortfall, with 28% vacancies among officers and 21% among constables. Despite over 33,000 new posts created between 2022 and 2023, actual recruitment has not kept pace, revealing a persistent gap in filling key positions.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Haritha John |Binu Karunakaran
The Bharatiya Janata Party's choice of Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a technocrat and entrepreneur, as Kerala's state unit president represents more than a routine leadership change. A calculated multi-layered political gambit, Rajeev Chandrasekhar's elevation reveals the BJP's desire to speed up the process of altering the state's political landscape, which remains resistant to its ideological narrative.
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2 months ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Haritha John |Binu Karunakaran
Shemeena was the only person who survived the murderous assault by her son AR Affan who killed five people in Kerala’s Venjaramoodu in Thiruvananthapuram. Affan brought down the hammer he used to clobber others on her mother too yet she told the police and the court that injuries were from a fall. On the evening of February 24, at around 6:15 pm, Affan walked into the Venjaramoodu police station and confessed to killing six people, believing his mother was also dead.
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2 months ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Binu Karunakaran
The political battle over Tamil Nadu’s language policy has reignited the debate with the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)trading accusations over the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the three-language formula.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Korah Abraham |Binu Karunakaran
India witnessed an alarming 74.4% increase in hate speech incidents in 2024 compared to 2023, with political leaders, especially from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), playing a central role in spreading anti-minority rhetoric. According to a report by the India Hate Lab (IHL), 1,165 verified in-person hate speech events were documented across the country—up from 668 incidents in 2023.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Binu Karunakaran
A group of activists based in Madurai have formed a group called ‘Madurai social harmony group’ to maintain the peace at Thirupparankundram hill, which has been turned into a site for communal polarisation. The group has alleged that those affiliated to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are attempting to create unrest in Thirupparankundram ahead of the Assembly elections.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Bharathy Singaravel |Binu Karunakaran
Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle city council member and Indian-American, has been denied visas twice by Indian authorities, preventing her from visiting her elderly mother who requires urgent medical attention. The denials came despite Sawant's appeals highlighting her mother's critical health situation and her need to be present for care. An emergency visa application submitted recently has also not been approved so far.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Jisha Surya |Binu Karunakaran
The fictitious report on the move to digital currency was even discussed as real news by a news anchor on a morning show, creating further confusion.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Binu Karunakaran
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, January 9, dismissed the batch of review petitions challenging the Constitution Bench judgement in the marriage equality case. A bench of justices BR Gavai, Suryakant, BV Nagarathna, PS Narasimha, and Dipankar Datta observed that there were no errors in the judgement that warranted a review.
