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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Haritha John |Maria Teresa Raju |Ragamalika Karthikeyan
In the quiet village of Selvapuram, nestled along the Walayar stretch of National Highway 544 in Kerala, two minor Dalit girls were found dead within 52 days of each other in early 2017. The girls were 13 and 9 years old respectively, and their deaths were recorded as suicides. The post mortem reports showed that the girls had been sexually assaulted multiple times over a long period of time.
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2 months ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Ragamalika Karthikeyan
The worldwide #MeToo movement was adopted by thousands of people who believed in breaking the silence around sexual violence at the workplace. Even as many individuals have named their abusers, and different forms of action have been taken or demanded in different cases, there has not been a collective answer to the question: what next?
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
finance.einnews.com | Poonam Agarwal |Ragamalika Karthikeyan |Pooja Prasanna
As per the FY 2022-23 receipts and payments account that was uploaded on the PM CARES Fund official website, it received close to Rs 909 crore as voluntary contributions, and Rs 2.57 crore as foreign contributions. By March 31, 2023, the fund held Rs 62,83,68,30,782 (or almost Rs 6,284 crore) in savings bank accounts, as per the statement for 2022-23.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Nidharshana Raju |Ragamalika Karthikeyan
In Gopi and Chitra’s modest home in Chennai’s Pallikaranai, every wall is a testament to love. A selfie hangs on one wall, a wedding photo on another, both depicting Praveen and Sharmila — the love match whose lives were lost to caste hatred. What was once the young couple’s bedroom is today a memorial, with their portraits adorned with garlands and Kungumam sitting amidst their belongings. “It’s their love that gives us the strength to fight for justice,” says Chitra.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Shivani Kava |Ragamalika Karthikeyan
TW: Mention of suicide, details of methods of suicides “Nearly one lakh men die by suicide ever year due to marriage-related problems,” screamed several television anchors and Men’s Rights Activists on social media, following the suicide of Bengaluru based techie Atul Subhash. The 35-year-old’s death and suicide notes — including one on video — have triggered a widespread debate across India in this regard.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thenewsminute.com | Ragamalika Karthikeyan
Brijit spends her days at the two-storeyed house running a small stationery store. She locks up and leaves every evening to a rented house a few blocks away. Even though Brijit and her family have been staying there for more than two years now, she cannot bring herself to call it home. Home, for her, is still this, where she spends the most part of her days.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thenewsminute.com | Uthara Ullas |Azeefa Fathima |Ragamalika Karthikeyan |Uthara U.R.
The year 2024 marks a decade since the landmark NALSA judgement that recognised the rights of transgender persons in India. But Delhi’s transgender community continues to face an uphill battle for basic recognition and access to essential services.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thenewsminute.com | Pooja Prasanna |Ragamalika Karthikeyan
A semiconductor company from the US was keen on investing a large amount of money in Tamil Nadu capital Chennai, back in 2022. The company’s officials were in New Delhi to meet with the Commerce Minister to discuss their intentions — and when they stepped out of that meeting, there was a surprise waiting for them. A helicopter was all set to whisk them away to Gujarat, before they could finalise their investment in Chennai.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
thenewsminute.com | Shivani Kava |Ragamalika Karthikeyan
The investigation To understand whether this issue was specific to Indiranagar or part of a larger trend, TNM visited nine of the city’s 40 sub-registrar offices to investigate whether rules were being inconsistently enforced or whether officials across the city were imposing their own biases and making up regulations without proper authority.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
thenewsminute.com | Anjana Meenakshi |Ragamalika Karthikeyan
Gowtham Pothagoni, a journalist with digital news portal Telugu Scribe, was arrested in Telangana on Monday, October 7, and has been charged with ‘attempting to create political tensions and promoting disharmony among the public’ and ‘insulting Telangana government and Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’. This comes seven months after the journalist posted a video on his X (formerly Twitter) account where a farmer expressed his resentment towards the Telangana government, led by the Congress party.
