Nandini Chandrashekar

5 days 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

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.

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.