Vidya Sigamany

3 weeks ago | thenewsminute.com | Haritha John |Vidya Sigamany

This story is part of 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.

4 weeks ago | thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Vidya Sigamany

Earlier this month, a woman publicly accused journalist Omar Rashid, currently associated with The Wire, of multiple forms of abuse. She was not just seeking justice through civil or criminal channels, but she tagged The Wire, asking them to act. While Omar has denied the allegations and the Wire has announced an internal inquiry, the grave accusations prompted the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to direct a police investigation.

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.

2 months ago | thenewsminute.com | Pooja Prasanna |Priyanka Thirumurthy |Vidya Sigamany

This story is part three of our series: 'The Spirituality Industry: A Deep Reporting Project', in which we will look at various religious cults in the country, where they get their funds from, their secrets and why they are attractive among certain age groups, communities, etc. Read the first two parts here. In the heart of lush green Auroville lies a fenced-off plot of land—now referred to by many as the ‘mass graveyard for trees’.

2 months ago | thenewsminute.com | Pooja Prasanna |Priyanka Thirumurthy |Vidya Sigamany

Auroville’s Matrimandir in the background with Jayanti Ravi, Secretary of Auroville Foundation, and TN Governor RN Ravi in the foregroundThis story is the first from our series: The Spirituality Industry: A Deep Reporting Project, in which we will look at various religious cults in the country, where they get their funds from, their secrets and why they are attractive among certain age groups, communities, etc.