The News Minute

The News Minute - Delivering important news stories from India, specifically highlighting events and developments in South India.

International

English

Online/Digital

Outlet metrics

Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#35124

India

#2783

News and Media

#160

Traffic sources

Monthly visitors

Articles

Undertrial prisoners form 76% of the prison population, says India Justice Report 2025

1 week ago | thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Binu Karunakaran

India’s police force continues to suffer from severe staffing gaps, reveals the India Justice Report (IJR) 2025. As of January 2023, there is a 23% national shortfall, with 28% vacancies among officers and 21% among constables. Despite over 33,000 new posts created between 2022 and 2023, actual recruitment has not kept pace, revealing a persistent gap in filling key positions.
India’s judiciary choked by vacancies, delays, and gender gaps: IJR 2025

1 week ago | thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Dhanya Rajendran

India’s judiciary continues to grapple with a staggering caseload, with over 5 crore cases pending across subordinate and high courts as of January 2025, according to the India Justice Report 2025, released on April 15. Between 2020 and 2024, pending cases rose by nearly 20%. Alarmingly, 61% of high court cases and 46% of district court cases have been pending for more than three years.
Karnataka tops justice delivery in India, followed by AP, Telangana, says report

1 week ago | thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Sukanya Shaji

Karnataka is the top performer in justice delivery among Indian states with a population above 10 million, according to the India Justice Report (IJR) 2025, released on April 15. Ranks are attributed based on a ten-point score system across four parameters – police, prisons, judiciary, and legal aid. While Karnataka has a composite score of 6.78 out of 10, followed by Andhra Pradesh (6.32), Telangana (6.15), Kerala (6.09), and Tamil Nadu (5.62), West Bengal ranked the lowest with a score of 3.63.
Amit Shah’s Chennai mission ends without full win | Powertrip #98

1 week ago | thenewsminute.com | Dhanya Rajendran |Pooja Prasanna |Shabbir Ahmed |Nidheesh M K

Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, Pooja Prasanna, and Nidheesh MK. In this week’s edition, we bring you details of the restraining order obtained by Isha Foundation in the US against an Indian couple. The couple had alleged that their daughter was sexually assaulted by a teacher at Isha’s school in Coimbatore.
Danger in the drip: Karnataka maternal deaths reveal cracks in India’s drug regulation

1 week ago | thenewsminute.com | Anisha Sheth |Dhanya Rajendran

Twenty-five-year-old Raja HG hadn’t held his son even once, nearly four months after the baby was born. He was still grieving the loss of his wife, Rojamma, when TNM met him in February 2025. She was one of the six women who died between November and December 2024, following a C-Section surgery at the Ballari District Hospital in Karnataka. The entire episode has exposed the bizarre ways in which India’s drug regulation functions.
Dire wolves, mammoths, clones: The Resurrection Quest probes science of ‘de-extinction’

1 week ago | thenewsminute.com | Bharathy Singaravel

A veterinarian, wracked with grief and guilt after accidentally running over his dog, decides to clone the beloved pet. A genetics lab in the US is working on engineering ‘cold-resistant elephants’ to populate Arctic regions. Meanwhile, in Siberia, a father-son duo is trying to recreate an entire ecosystem that vanished thousands of years ago. This might sound like the opening sequence to a new zombie apocalypse movie (or worse, Jurassic World), but these are hard facts.
South Central 22 | US Deportations, Waqf Amendment Act

1 week ago | thenewsminute.com | Dhanya Rajendran |Pooja Prasanna |Leena Reghunath

In Episode 22 of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath discuss the US crackdown on Indian students through self-deportation notices and detentions and the implications of the Waqf Amendment Act 2025 with Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor at The Hindu, and Senior Counsel Zafarullah Khan. On the scale of the US crackdown, Suhasini says, “What we have seen in the last two months is...
Agnyathavasi review: Great performances, good direction make for a satisfying thriller

1 week ago | thenewsminute.com | Subha Rao

Agnyathavasi (Kannada)There’s an oft-repeated phrase people use after watching certain films — it is “slow.” I didn’t understand it then, I don’t understand it now. Labels help no one. Does life move in real time or at an accelerated pace? The issue of pacing strikes the audience only when they aren’t drawn into the world the director and storyteller have created. Agnyathavasi (translation: ‘a person in exile’) is a film that insists it will breathe — and wants you to breathe with it.
Kerala actor assault case: HC expunges prior judicial remarks citing prejudice to trial

2 weeks ago | thenewsminute.com | Azeefa Fathima |Sukanya Shaji

The Kerala High Court, while dismissing actor Dileep’s plea for a CBI probe into the sexual assault of a female actor in Kochi in 2017, observed that certain remarks made by a single judge bench in an earlier order were “unnecessary” and could influence the ongoing trial in the Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court.
Startups quietly seethe over Piyush Goyal’s attack | Powertrip #97

2 weeks ago | thenewsminute.com | Dhanya Rajendran |Pooja Prasanna |Shabbir Ahmed |Nidheesh M K

Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, Pooja Prasanna, and Nidheesh MK. In this week’s edition, we tell you about a prominent BJP minister who played a role in Annamalai’s exit as TN BJP president. We also spoke to the startup community to understand their true feelings about Piyush Goyal’s tirade at the recent Startup Mahakumbh.