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‘Chooralmala may not exist anymore’: Three wards uninhabitable after Wayanad landslide

Noorudheen was elected as the ward member of Chooralmala (ward number 12), a quaint idyllic village in the Meppadi panchayat of Kerala’s Wayanad, four years ago in 2020. Today, the village is little more than a name. In the early hours of July 30, a series of devastating landslides had…

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Wayanad landslide: Death toll crosses 180, eyewitnesses say saw ‘kin get washed away’

The death toll in landslide-affected Wayanad in Kerala rose to over 180 on Wednesday amid intensified rescue operations and setting up of infrastructure, including bridges, by the Indian army, navy and air force teams. At present, more than 200 people are missing and over 3,000 affected persons have been shifted…

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‘It sounded like a plane swooping in’: Witness recalls how first landslide hit Wayanad

“The sound was similar to that of an aeroplane swooping in,” Noorudheen CK said, recalling the landslide that first hit Mundakkai in Kerala's Wayanad around 1.30 am on July 30. Over the course of the next hour and a half, the entire village was swept away, he said. Noorudheen, a…

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Cricketers in Kerala faced career fallout for opposing KCA coach who sexually abused girls

It has been over two years since Jomon, an aspiring cricketer from Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, left the sport. He was 21 years old when he joined the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) with dreams of pursuing a successful career. However, in 2022, everything changed after he supported a 12-year-old student who alleged…

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Hafta letters: Radicalisation, NEET row, democracy

Hello, I’m a long-time subscriber. This is the first time I am writing to Hafta. I live in the US and have been following the election coverage. I noticed a shift in various platforms, such as Barkha’s. She started picking up the same talking points as the Godi channels, filling…

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Tamil Nadu hooch deaths: In grief-stricken village, anger against official ‘apathy’

As you walk down the streets in Karunapuram village of Kallakurichi district in Tamil Nadu, you see pandals cover the front of house after house. Families and acquaintances gather in grief in front of nearly every street in the village. Of the 34 total deaths linked to liquor poisoning deaths,…

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Hafta letters: Election commission, legacy media and VVPAT

My question is related to Hafta #469. On the organised nature of Ram mandir decor in public spaces, Shardool brushed it off, claiming that I don’t “understand” India. I thought his answer had more to do with his own mandir-time-tribulations than the uniformity of the decor, and Raman sir did…

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Hafta letters: Modi, Congress and voting systems

On Hafta 478, Manisha suggested that the BJP is stronger than the Congress and that’s why they keep winning. I would like to differ on this.

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If Prajwal Revanna isn’t punished, he will do this again: Rape survivor’s sister

The punishment given to Prajwal Revanna should be such that he should never be able to go about with his head held high, says Mala (name changed). It was only a few days ago that she was told by her family that her sister Mridula* was in the 3,000-odd video…

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‘His duty to protect all sections’: DK Shivakumar on PM’s Muslim remarks

Fourteen seats in Karnataka have finished voting in the second phase and the rest will go to polls on May 5. Congress leader and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar spoke to TNM’s editor-in-chief Dhanya Rajendran about the Congress’s poll prospects and slammed PM Narendra Modi for his incendiary remarks. He also…

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Hafta letters: Poll pivots, EVMs, Sreenivasan Jain’s show

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Poor funding, inadequate training hit Modi govt’s One Stop Centre scheme

Nine years after the first Narendra Modi government launched One Stop Centres (OSC) to support women victims of gender-based-violence, the Union government has set up 82.01 percent of the centres promised under the scheme.

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In Kanniyakumari, the fisherfolk’s support for Congress comes with a warning

One of the largest votebases in the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency is the fisher community, second only to the dominant Nadar caste. Nearly 20 percent of all of Tamil Nadu’s fisherfolk reside in the region, a vast majority of whom are Catholic Christians from the Mukkuvar and Paravar castes.

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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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