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1 week ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Korah Abraham |Nandini Chandrashekar
Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. In a move that could significantly affect Karnataka's working population, especially its large IT and service sector workforce, the state government has proposed amendments to existing labour laws by raising the cap on daily working hours and drastically expanding the overtime limits.
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1 week ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Haritha John |Nandini Chandrashekar
Follow TNM’s WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. The fire-hit container vessel MV Wan Hai 503 continued to burn as firefighting and towing operations continued for the third consecutive day, approximately 53 nautical miles west of Kochi. Earlier, the vessel was around 17 nautical miles away from the shore. Officials say that extreme weather conditions have made the entire operation – including salvage, firefighting, and towing – highly challenging and difficult to execute.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Anisha Sheth |Shivani Kava |Nandini Chandrashekar |Korah Abraham
It was meant to be a celebration like no other. A grand tribute to a beloved team that finally clinched the IPL title after 18 long years. But the victory march for Royal Challengers Bengaluru turned into a day of horror, as celebration gave way to tragedy. Eleven lives were lost, including four teenagers- the youngest just 13.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Bharathy Singaravel |Nandini Chandrashekar
A recent study in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh showed nearly 13% of 22-year-old women were married before the legal age of 18. These surveyed women – 1,826 women aged 22 years – also had a child by 19 years of age. The report also indicated that the education status of the woman’s mother had a significant impact in this regard. The worrying data was from round seven of the Work and Family Lives: Young Lives Survey released on May 30. The data was collected between August 2023 and January 2024.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Nandini Chandrashekar
The Coimbatore Mahila Court, on Tuesday, May 13, sentenced nine men to life imprisonment after convicting them earlier in the day for their involvement in a widespread sexual exploitation and blackmail racket in the Pollachi sexual assault case.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Nandini Chandrashekar
To receive all updates on this case and the analysis of the judgement and more stories, follow our WhatsApp channel. The Mahila Court in Coimbatore on Tuesday, May 13, convicted nine men in the Pollachi sexual assault case that shook Tamil Nadu six years ago. Judge R Nandhini Devi passed the verdict, and the quantum of the sentence will be delivered by 12 pm on May 13. The men have been convicted for gang rape and rape.
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2 months ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Rishika Pardikar |Nandini Chandrashekar
We are in Barnabas Manju’s office, a one-bedroom house in a government quarters in Campbell Bay. He is the chairman of the Tribal Council of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar. A long-pending demand of the Tribal Council is for a formal office with work equipment. “There is nothing here. No computers to work. We just have a chair,” Manju said. From a demand for a formal office to answers on a mega project that threatens to destroy their way of life, Manju is stonewalled and his visitors surveilled.
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2 months ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Haritha John |Nandini Chandrashekar
The family of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer M Megha, who died after being hit by a train in Pettah near Thiruvananthapuram, has filed a complaint against her colleague Sukanth Suresh, a Malappuram native and fellow IB officer. Police revealed that 24-year-old Megha’s last phone call was with Sukanth, just moments before her death, and lasted only a few seconds. However, the police have not lodged an FIR yet. Meanwhile, Sukant Suresh has filed an anticipatory bail plea in the Kerala High Court.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Siddhartha Mishra |Ravi Nair |Nandini Chandrashekar |Anisha Sheth
Lawyers representing Kerala businessman and aspiring politician Rajendran Vellapalath, who has been accused of stealing assets formerly belonging to Byju’s, have filed motions to withdraw from the case in a US court. The counsel cited “irreconcilable differences” and non-payment of fees for withdrawing from the case.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Nandini Chandrashekar
The Madras High Court, on Thursday, March 6, passed a direction to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ordering it to lift the ban imposed on the Vikatan website. The website was blocked on February 15 over a cartoon depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his hands chained in front of US President Donald Trump. Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy also directed the magazine to take down the page containing the cartoon temporarily.
