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1 week 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’.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Pooja Prasanna |Priyanka Thirumurthy |Vidya Sigamany
This 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. As you step into Auroville, you’re met with roads that emerge suddenly only to vanish just as abruptly.
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1 month ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Vidya Sigamany
On the night of February 24, Kerala was left reeling after the news of a shocking crime — a 23-year-old man walked into a police station and confessed to murdering several members of his own family. Among his victims was his 13-year-old brother, whom neighbours say he loved dearly, making the tragedy even more unfathomable.
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2 months ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Vidya Sigamany
A 28-year-old trans man has approached the Kerala High Court challenging the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Act and its exclusion of transgender individuals from accessing fertility preservation services. He argued that the act is limited to couples and women, and is “discriminatory” and “violates” the right to life and right to make reproductive choices.
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2 months ago | 
thenewsminute.com | Haritha John |Vidya Sigamany
In a bid to expand its grassroots presence and Christian outreach, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala has appointed three Christian leaders as district presidents. The restructuring, which involved splitting several districts into smaller organisational units, marks the party’s continued efforts to gain traction among Kerala’s Christian voters. The state’s Christian population amounts to around 19%.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Nidharshana Raju |Vidya Sigamany
More than three months after the Thanjavur police were informed, through a written complaint, that the District Child Protection Officer (DCPO) Ranjith Kumar and the Chief Education Officer (CEO) R Madhan Kumar had failed to report the sexual harassment complaints from 43 government school students to the police, no criminal action has been initiated against them.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thenewsminute.com | Vidya Sigamany
Walking past the Appan Thampuran Library in Thrissur’s Ayyanthole nearly 25 years ago, KR Beena, a young researcher, thought of taking a membership. Inside the library, scanning through the catalogues, she chanced upon a list of books related to theatre. Turning the pages of the catalogue, Beena stumbled upon a title she had for long searched – Thozhilkendrathilekku (To the Workplace).
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thenewsminute.com | Binu Karunakaran |Vidya Sigamany
The only sweet memory I have from my high school days is the smell of camphor that emanates when ping pong balls break. Puny little high for a puny kid with a unibrow and stout nose. If I failed to get a spot at the table, I would smash balls against the wall, playing crude squash. Liberate the bird-like whiff from the bouncing egg. Cricket wasn’t for me. It was a health hazard once we moved on from chopped up palm fronds to the willow.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thenewsminute.com | Haritha Manav |Vidya Sigamany
“It was sheer luck… we were almost killed and here we are now, talking about it,” a relieved Semil Dev tells TNM. The 23-year-old from Kerala’s Vadakara was one among the group of young graduates who travelled to Cambodia in October after being offered lucrative jobs.
