Binu Karunakaran

1 week 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.

4 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

2 months ago | 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.