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1 month ago | 
newslaundry.com | Anmol Pritam |NIDHI SURESH
Saeed Ahmad Habib, the former sarpanch of Mandhar, told us, “Our village has a population of about 4,500, but there are only 45 bunkers – 36 individual and nine community bunkers. That means there is just one bunker for every 100 people.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |NIDHI SURESH |Sukanya Shaji
The High Court of Delhi, on Wednesday, May 21, asked commentator Abhijit Iyer Mitra and social media platform X Corp (formerly Twitter) to take down his defamatory tweets against Newslaundry, an independent digital news platform, and the women journalists associated with it. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, while passing the order, slammed Abhijit’s language in the tweets, saying that the case would be heard further only after the posts are taken down.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | NIDHI SURESH |Anmol Pritam |Vidya Sigamany
On May 13, three days after the Indo-Pak ceasefire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation. He did not speak about the devastation in Poonch in his 22-minute speech. In India, it was the city of Poonch that had paid the price of the military escalation between India and Pakistan. Of the 16 Indian civilians who were killed in Pakistani shelling, 13 of them were from Poonch city alone. Four of them were children.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | NIDHI SURESH |Anmol Pritam |Lakshmi Priya
Around 7.10 pm on the night of May 7, Naseemat Akhtar tried calling her husband, Qari Mohammad Iqbal. The 40-year-old was worried. Cross-border shelling had intensified, and given that they lived in Poonch, a sensitive border region, she wanted to check on him. Iqbal, 47, did not answer. Nearly an hour later, a relative called to say he had been killed by a Pakistani shell.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | NIDHI SURESH
India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire on May 10, 2025. But what has the conflict done to people in the border areas? TNM’s reporter Nidhi Suresh speaks to Jamrodh Singh, a Jammu resident who lost his uncle during the Pakistan shelling.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | NIDHI SURESH |Anmol Pritam
The News Minute is covering Operation Sindoor, providing in-depth breaking news, analysis, and opinions. Stay informed on key events, players, and its wider impact by following our WhatsApp Channel. Note: This story was reported three hours before the ceasefire was announced on May 10. Wearing a pale pink salwar, Shakuntala Devi (73) walked with a severe limp, holding on to her grandson Kuldeep Singh’s hand for support.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | NIDHI SURESH |Anmol Pritam
The News Minute is covering Operation Sindoor, providing in-depth breaking news, analysis, and opinions. Stay informed on key events, players, and its wider impact by following our WhatsApp Channel. At the intensive care unit in the Government Medical College and Hospital, Urusa Khan sat on her bed looking dazed and exhausted. Her voice was barely audible, and wept uncontrollably as soon as anyone walked into the room.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | NIDHI SURESH |Anmol Pritam
On the night of May 9, Shweta was struggling to sleep. “I stayed up and watched the news. There was so much tension about bombardments going on in this region,” she said. Shweta and her family live in Rehari Colony in Jammu, which is now at the heart of escalations between India and Pakistan.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Shivani Kava |NIDHI SURESH
This is the first story in our series on Police Impunity in India. Reporters from The News Minute and Newslaundry are travelling across states to bring you stories of negligence and abuse of power by the police, and how minorities and marginalised sections suffer the most. On April 1, 2025, around 6 pm, a few Mysuru police officers stood at the Madikeri bus stand, waiting for a woman who was supposed to have been murdered.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
newslaundry.com | NIDHI SURESH
The actor also talks about the evolution of Malayalam cinema. Kani Kusruti opens up about her role in All We Imagine as Light, explaining why she didn’t relate to her character and how acting isn’t about mirroring oneself. In this conversation with Nidhi Suresh, she also addresses her choices in politically sensitive films and the evolving Malayalam film industry.
