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Kerala student’s death points to SFI’s ‘campus autocracy’

Twenty days have passed since second-year veterinary student Sidharthan was found dead in the men’s hostel washroom on their campus, but students at the Pookode College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Kerala would rather not talk about him yet.

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Questions on police inaction after News7 Tamil reporter attacked with ‘sickles and knives’

A News7 Tamil reporter in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur was attacked with “sickles and knives” by a group of unidentified men on Wednesday night. According to The News Minute, the group slashed Nesaprabhu leaving severe injuries.

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Behind Andhra anganwadi anger, funding gaps, unfulfilled promises, staff woes

Beneath a fading portrait of Vladimir Lenin, on Sunday, over a thousand anganwadi workers in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada went on strike against the government’s unwillingness to increase salaries. Behind the portrait, 15 women lay down on the dais, among whom 13 had been fasting for five days continuously. Two among…

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Texas Republican Party places 13 nonbinding advisory questions on the March primary ballot

The Texas Republican Party has placed 13 nonbinding advisory questions on the March 5 primary ballot. The Texas Democratic Party does not plan on placing any questions on primary ballots this year. The last time they did was in 2020.

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Hafta letters: Palestine and Zionism, college events, natural resources

General point about NL Sena. If there is a project that can be anticipated, then it should be set up a while before the actual need, so that people can spend a fixed amount of money for multiple months. For instance, NL-TNM fund was opened up in October. But it…

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KCR’s decline and fall: Why the face of Telangana lost the assembly polls

“We have voted for him twice. Why should we vote a third time?” asked a woman voter from Gajwel, K Chandrashekhar Rao’s constituency.

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A story of three welfare schemes: In Telangana, MLAs stand at the epicentre of power

On October 14 of this year, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLA from the Kharaitabad constituency in Hyderabad, Danam Nagender, addressing a small group of his party’s cadre, said that those who go against the governing BRS will not be given double bedroom houses.

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KCR’s 2BHK housing scheme: An image-booster now marred by issues

In October 2015, the Telangana government made a grand announcement about Dignity Housing, a scheme to distribute two-bedroom (2BHK) houses with an aim of providing affordable and quality housing to the poor. A total of 2.93 lakh houses were to be built by 2023 and handed over to people below…

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‘We gave govt land, now it won’t let us stay alone’: Widowed in Telangana face eviction threat

Forty-year-old Bhagya lost her father Thutukuri Malla Reddy to suicide in June 2022. The 70-year-old farmer was in distress after the Telangana government denied him a two-BHK house, a promise made to those evicted for the Mallanna Sagar reservoir project in Telangana’s Siddipet district.

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Telangana elections: What’s on the mind of Hyderabad’s young voters?

With elections scheduled in Telangana on November 30, TNM’s Pooja Prasanna and Anjana Meenakshi spoke to young and first-time voters from various universities in Hyderabad about the big poll issues for them, including employment, education and healthcare.

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‘Don’t need BRS support to win’: AIMIM chief Owaisi on Telangana polls, INDIA bloc, and media

The AIMIM is expanding its footprints across the country, fielding candidates this time in Rajasthan as well. The party’s president Asaduddin Owaisi has said that AIMIM will neither ally with INDIA nor NDA. In this conversation with TNM’s Pooja Prasanna, he speaks on the Telangana elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi,…

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Caste faultlines among schoolkids: In TN, Dalit teen, family attacked over caste identity

Days before the final celebrations of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav on Independence Day, a 17-year-old Dalit student with exceptional academic record at Tamil Nadu’s Nanguneri was compelled to stand at forked roads to choose between quitting his school and village to run away to safety or confronting schoolmates baying for…

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In rural Tamil Nadu, menstruating women are still isolated, banished from homes

In rural Tamil Nadu’s Naicker Theru of Ariyagoundampatti village, a 13-year-old girl, experiencing her first day of menstruation, sat on the steps of a designated ‘rest house’ – a place meant for isolating menstruating girls and women. The ‘rest house’ had a dusty, cobweb-ridden room, a dilapidated bathroom and a…

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‘Blind faith of the past is shaken’: The movement to reform the church in Kerala

Seventeen years ago, when Felix Pulludan was “healthier in his mind and body” as he’d like to put it, a sequence of incidents – beginning with a meeting of bishops, priests and the laity – led to his exit from the Catholic Church in Kerala. They were discussing a Bill…

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‘Modus operandi to extort, threaten’: Multiple charges against Kerala’s Karma News

Malayalam digital outfit Karma News – which is known to propagate a curious mix of rightwing Christian and Hindutva propaganda – is facing multiple charges of extortion and blackmail. In at least three police complaints filed in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram since May 2022, the portal’s Kerala-based chief PR Somdev and…

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A Dalit man was murdered in TN. His killer became a hero for ‘caste pride’ online

Last month, after the Madras High Court upheld the life sentence handed to Yuvaraj, prime accused in the murder of Dalit youth Gokulraj, several online ‘fan pages’ dedicated to him expressed disappointment with the verdict.

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Online abuse, death threats: Telugu journalist Thulasi Chandu says she ‘will be killed one day’

Constant harassment and hate-spewing have led a Hyderabad-based woman journalist to say she is likely to be killed soon.

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‘Witchcraft’ and prejudice: Why a Dalit Christian couple was ‘beaten for 8 hours’ in Telangana

“They didn’t ask, they threatened us till we [falsely] confessed,” said Muthangi Amrutha, a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Kolkur village of Sadashivpet mandal in Telangana’s Sangareddy district.

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Bengaluru: Jailed for months, a Bengali Hindu family is fighting to prove they’re Indian

It had barely been a month since Palash Adhikary, a resident of Burdwan district of West Bengal, had resettled on the outskirts of Bengaluru along with his wife and two-year-old son when police officers came knocking on his door in July 2022. Having lived in Burdwan all his life, Palash,…

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CoWIN data leak: Aadhaar, passport details, phone numbers of lakhs of Indians made public on Telegram

In a major data breach, private information of lakhs of Indians registered on the CoWIN app to avail Covid-19 vaccination has reportedly been leaked to private players.

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Priests at Parliament: The Tamil Adheenams and how they kept close to power

A day before the inauguration of the new Parliament building on May 28, a photo of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam head seated in a chartered plane on the way to New Delhi went viral. The image spawned both widespread curiosity and criticism. Why was a special plane arranged for an Adheenam…

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Alabama ISIS bride claims she was brainwashed as she fights to return home from Syria camp

A woman who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20 to join the Islamic State group in Syria says she is a victim of the militant organization and hopes to return to the US even if it means serving prison time

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Alabama woman who joined IS hopes to return from Syria camp

A woman who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20 to join the Islamic State group in Syria says she is a victim of the militant organization and hopes to return to the U.S. even if it means serving prison time

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