Nandini Chandrashekar

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

2 months ago | 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.