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4 days 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.
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1 week 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.
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2 weeks 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 | 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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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.
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2 months 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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Feb 27, 2025 | 
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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Feb 11, 2025 | 
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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Jan 30, 2025 | 
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.
