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South Central Ep 2: Nayanthara vs Dhanush, Sandeep Varier, and Kasthuri’s arrest

In the second episode, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by Frontline’s senior associate editor RK Radhakrishnan and lawyer Nikhil Narendran.

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BJP faces defeat in Jharkhand: Five key factors behind their setback

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) led Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) secured a decisive and historic victory against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state Assembly elections. The alliance, which includes JMM, Congress, and other parties, won 55 out of the 81 seats. However, despite an intensive campaign by top BJP…

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Progressive legacy vs communal tension: Why Kolhapur is at a crossroads

“What happens in Kolhapur follows in the rest of Maharashtra.”

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Saffron flags, JMM ‘neglect’: Why Jharkhand’s Adivasi villages are divided

“Only [Bharatiya] Janata Party volunteers have come here and spoken to us, so we will vote for them,” said Sheila Devi, a resident of Jorpunda village in Simdega district of Jharkhand. Located near the Odisha-Jharkhand state border, more than 170 km from the capital city Ranchi, Jorpunda is an agricultural…

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Far from home, away from EVMs: Jharkhand’s migrant tribal workers

Lakhan Oraon, a construction worker in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, has plans to visit his hometown in Lohardaga, west of Ranchi, the state capital of Jharkhand, only in December this year around the time of Christmas. The first phase of Assembly elections in the state is scheduled to begin on Wednesday,…

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Hafta letters: US elections, fascism, democracy

Great work on Hafta, NL team! I’ve been going through several of the archives that are available on video.

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Hafta letters: Canada-India standoff, Khalistan, and US elections

Thanks for the fantastic report on government expenditure on PM’s visits. Can you do an investigation report on the bouquets presented to dignitaries by politicians from government funds? Also, what happens to them after the presentation?

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Congress govt clamping down on press freedom, says Telugu Scribe reporter after fourth FIR

A week after being granted bail on October 16, Telugu Scribe journalist Gowtham Pothagoni, who already has three FIRs against him, learnt that the police had registered a fourth one. Gowtham was arrested on October 7 for posting a video of a farmer, Mallaya, who praised K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR),…

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Secession Is Back in Style in Texas

Can't Americans all just get along? Maybe we can't—and perhaps we shouldn't have to.

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‘Face detention or go home’: In Tamil Nadu, police continue crackdown on Samsung strike

As daylight broke on Thursday, October 10, the number of policemen near Echoor in Sriperumbudur kept increasing. This is the place where Samsung's workers have been protesting for over a month now – a protest that the Madras High Court on Wednesday said should be allowed to continue. But as…

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Three gangs and three motives? The murder of BSP leader Armstrong in Tamil Nadu

This is the first story in a two-part series, 'Beneath the Surface', on former BSP Tamil Nadu chief K Armstrong who was murdered on July 5, leaving behind several questions regarding his life and death.

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In Kerala, medical negligence victims face a broken system of delays and bias

It took five years for doctors to diagnose the reason for Harshina's abdomen pain: a pair of forceps left inside during her third caesarean surgery in 2017. It had punctured her bladder causing infections so severe that she couldn’t even walk properly. The egregious act of criminal negligence happened while…

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The VHP and BJP exploited a dying Tamil Nadu teenager to push Hindutva agenda

Seven months into his tenure as Tamil Nadu BJP president, K Annamalai launched one of his biggest political campaigns, following the tragic suicide of 17-year-old Lavanya in Thanjavur. Annamalai alleged that Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School, where Lavanya was studying, pressured her to convert to Christianity, driving her to take…

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Australian filmmaker David Bradbury denied entry to India, his kids made to travel alone

Shortly after midnight, in the early hours of September 11, famous Australian filmmaker David Bradbury had arrived in India to travel the country for a few weeks with his children Nakeita, aged 21, and Omar, 14. On reaching the Chennai airport at 1 am, however, David, a two-time Oscar award…

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Hafta letters: First Amendment, India as single entity, NL-TNM alliance

Well this one is a kudos for Mr Anand, the voice of the weak on Hafta:

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Tirupati laddu ghee adulteration row: What the lab reports say

A laboratory analysis has found adulteration in four samples of ghee supplied to the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam (TTD) in Andhra Pradesh in July 2024. The report by the Centre for Analysis and Learning in Livestock and Food (CALF) of the National Dairy Development Board noted that the content used to…

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Speculation and sensationalism: Telugu media’s outrageous coverage of Jani Master rape case

Telugu actor Jhansi’s visibly irritated tone wasn’t lost on the reporters covering the September 17 press meet. She was angry with the media’s coverage of the sexual assault case involving choreographer Shaik Jani Basha, popularly known as Jani Master. “You reported on the woman’s real life as if it were…

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Let Me Explain: Modi govt denying funds to best-performing states?

In this week's episode of Let Me Explain, TNM's Pooja Prasanna breaks down the controversy surrounding the Modi government’s alleged denial of education funds to five opposition-ruled states – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Punjab, and Delhi.

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Hafta letters: Creators vs journalists, NL-TNM subscriptions, Ravish Kumar

On the blurring between YouTube creators and journalists, it is surprising that the Hafta missed two important distinctions – the social media news creators who hold a journalism degree versus those who don’t.

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Denied safe abortion practices, migrant women in Kerala are self-administering pills

This is the second in a four-part series where TNM surveys the lived realities of the migrant communities in Kerala.

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Unattended and vulnerable: Children of Kerala’s migrant communities face many risks

This is part one of a four-part series by The News Minute on lived realities of migrant communities in Kerala.

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Vijayawada floods: Several dead, lack of rehabilitation, demand for funds

National Disaster Security Force personnel Raja dusted off his palms against his neon orange shorts after yet another round of shifting people out of the flood-affected Ajith Singh Nagar area in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada. “I have witnessed several floods. I was in Chennai when it flooded eight months ago and…

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Young women actors, technicians say abuse still thrives in Malayalam film industry

Covid lockdowns were just being lifted when Anuja* moved to Kochi with aspirations of writing and eventually directing films. She came to work in Malayalam cinema a few years after the arrest of actor Dileep for allegedly orchestrating the sexual assault of a female colleague in 2017. The problems in…

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Protesting Tamil Nadu doctors flag unsafe work environment in hospitals

Protesting the rape and murder of a post graduate doctor in Kolkata, Tamil Nadu doctors have voiced the need for safe, well-equipped, and sufficient on-call rooms for doctors to rest inside hospitals. Citing their long working hours, doctors are demanding that the state government and hospital administrations create secure rooms…

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Karnataka governor sanctions prosecution of CM Siddaramaiah in MUDA scam

Karnataka Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot on Saturday, August 17, granted sanction to prosecute Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the MUDA land scam. The decision allows for an official investigation into the allocation of sites to Siddaramaiah's wife by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) in exchange for land acquired. Karnataka CMO…

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