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Is cow smuggling as rampant in Uttara Kannada district as Hindutva activists claim?

The mutilation and killing of a pregnant cow in a village in Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka has given fresh blood to the narrative voiced by Hindutva groups that cow smuggling and illegal cattle transport are rampant in the region – loaded with insinuation that Muslims are behind these incidents.

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‘Thrown on the road’: Terminated Infosys employees describe forced resignations

In a shocking and controversial move, multinational tech giant Infosys laid off an estimated 400 trainee employees from their Mysuru training facility on Friday, February 7. It is said that more terminations are imminent. While the company claims that employees ‘voluntarily’ signed their release agreements, those affected tell a different…

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South Central Ep 13: Chennai police vs media, Kumbh cover-up, Telangana caste survey

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna and Leena Reghunath are joined by Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande and The News Minute’s Sudipto Mondal and Jahnavi.

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‘The virus had mutated’: How Karnataka cops are tackling the state’s cybercrime pandemic

In January 2025, when the Hulimavu police in Bengaluru raided a ‘call centre,’ they found a well-oiled machine, busy at work scamming people for the past one-and-a-half years. The owner of the call centre was a man named Jitendra from Bihar.

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South Central Ep 11: The judgements of the RG Kar and Greeshma-Sharon Raj cases

In episode 11 of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Leena Reghunath are joined by TNM’s Nandini Chandrashekar, investigative journalist Poonam Agarwal, and lawyer Anup Surendranath.

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Women filmmakers were funded, then ‘harassed’ and ‘insulted’: Kerala film corporation controversy

Long before the release of the Hema Committee report in August 2024, which exposed the deep fractures beneath Malayalam cinema’s progressive façade, filmmakers Indu Lakshmi and Mini IG had sought to expose the particularly hypocritical brand of inclusivity that shaped Kerala’s film industry. Both of them were grantees of the…

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Malayalam cinema’s reckoning: The Hema report and its aftermath, five months later

2024 was an eventful year for Malayalam cinema, during which its best and worst facets became the centre of a nationwide discussion. All the talk in the first half of the year was about the brilliance of movies like Aavesham, Manjummel Boys, Premalu, and Bramayugam.

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South Central Ep 9: Communal violence in Karnataka, Revanth Reddy vs KTR

In episode nine, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by TNM’s senior journalist Anisha Sheth and journalist Yunus Lasania.

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Hafta letters: Right-wing scholarship, length of subscriber emails, panel pessimism

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‘Struggling to cope’: Survivors of Wayanad landslide protest exclusion from draft list for rehab

Nearly five months after devastating landslides ravaged Kerala’s Wayanad, survivors are yet to receive the assurance of rehabilitation. The only hope for the over 500 families who lost their homes lies in a rehabilitation project designed to resettle them in a new township. However, according to the Meppadi panchayat representatives,…

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Hafta letters: First family of Bollywood, LTA Punjab, populist schemes

AnonymousIn last week’s Hafta, Chetan Bhagat was spot on when he described how minuscule the demands of a typical Indian are and how not only have they adopted a practice of just being submissive to what's happening in terms of poor services, but religion has been at the core of…

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Biomedical waste from Kerala dumped in Tamil Nadu, officials dodge accountability

Hours after it came to light that bio-medical waste from Kerala was illegally dumped in multiple locations in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district, government authorities in both states continue to dodge accountability. Medical documents bearing the name of Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), a state-owned cancer care hospital and research centre in…

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South Central Ep 5: Kerala actor assault, Rahul Gandhi’s leadership, Vijay-VCK-DMK row

In this episode, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by author and activist Meena Kandasamy and TNM's senior editor Ragamalika Karthikeyan.

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In Tamil Nadu cases of spousal abuse, child panels often misuse power, harass victims

Bhavani* was 16 years old when she was married off by her parents to a 31-year-old man in Pudukkottai district in Tamil Nadu. The wedding, which was held in 2005, portended the beginning of a dark chapter in her life. “I was young and didn’t understand sexual relationships,” she recounted,…

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Hafta letters: Elections, democracy and Delhi pollution

Adani is back in the news this week – unsurprisingly, not on NDTV. I’m more interested in the timing of this scam. In the US, the White House has significant influence over foreign affairs. I suspect the indictment’s release aligns with the recent election. The Biden administration may have delayed…

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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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