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2 days 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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2 days 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Korah Abraham |Nandini Chandrashekar
A recent study has found that 26.4% of India’s population remains below the poverty line, a figure that challenges the Union government’s claim that poverty has dropped to just 5%. The study, which was published in the Review of Agrarian Studies, suggests that official estimates may be underreporting the true scale of poverty in the country.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Korah Abraham |Nandini Chandrashekar
Zakia Jafri, who waged a two-decade-long legal battle seeking justice for the victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots, passed away in Ahmedabad on Saturday, February 1. She was the wife of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was among the 69 people killed in the Gulberg Society massacre during the riots. Zakia, who was 86 years old, died of an age-related illness.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Nandini Chandrashekar |Anjana Meenakshi |Dhanya Rajendran
The Reporters Collective (TRC), a digital media outlet that has worked on several groundbreaking investigations, has been served with a notice from the Income Tax Department (I-T) withdrawing their non-profit status, saying that their journalism does not serve any public purpose. TNM has learnt that similar notices have been served to at least two other media outlets across the country that operate under a charitable trust and have tax exemptions under the non-profit status.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Shabbir Ahmed |Dhanya Rajendran |Nandini Chandrashekar
On January 17, social activist Jagaber Ali was on his way to his factory, which manufactures hollow blocks, after attending the Friday afternoon prayers at the Kattubhava mosque in Tamil Nadu's Pudukkottai district. Tragically, he lost his life after being struck by a tipper lorry. Although the police insisted it was an accident, it soon became evident that Jagaber had been murdered.
