South India

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday released the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) manifesto, while the party also announced a list of candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Controversy stirred during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent roadshow in Kerala's Palakkad, as the BJP faced allegations of sidelining its only Muslim candidate, M Abdul Salam.

Muslim groups in Kerala urged the Election Commission to postpone the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April 26, which falls on Friday, a sacred day for the community.

A Delhi court on Saturday sent Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) legislator and daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, K Kavitha, to seven days Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin took to social media on March 15, 2024, the UN International Day to Combat Islamophobia, to urge unity in crushing 'the communal fascism of the BJP regime' and preserving India's diverse spirit.

Senior BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, 81, was booked by the Sadashivanagar police late on Thursday night under a section of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) based on a complaint by the mother of a 17-year-old of sexual assault.

The Telangana High Court on Wednesday refused to stay the release of the 'Razakar' movie.

A footballer from Ivory Coast has alleged that he was assaulted and faced racial slurs by spectators at a football ground in Kerala’s Malappuram district.

Eight activists belonging to the Fraternity Movement were sent to 14 days of judicial custody on Tuesday, a day after they led a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Kozhikode.

Reacting to the notification implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief M K Stalin said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government's "divisive agenda has weaponised the Citizenship Act, turning it from a beacon of humanity to a tool of discrimination based on religion and race through the enactment of CAA.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday described the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as a law that creates Muslims in India as second-class citizens and affirmed that it will not be put into effect in the southern state.

Six-time BJP MP and former Union minister Ananth Kumar Hegde said at a party rally in Siddapur in Uttara Kannada district that the BJP would need a majority of 400 seats in the Parliament to “change” the Constitution.