South India

Twenty-three-year-old Mohammad Rizwan, a food delivery executive with Swiggy, who fell off the third floor of an apartment complex after being attacked by a customer’s dog, died at the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in Hyderabad on Saturday.

Azad Samaj Party national president Chandra Shekhar Azad, Dalit rights activist Radhika Vemula and caste killing survivor Avanthi will participate in a programme commemorating Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula on his 7th death anniversary, 17th January, 2022 in University of Hyderabad, organisers Ambedkar Students’ Association said.

An audio clip where Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party MLC C P Yogeeshwar purportedly says that Union minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah practises a “sort of rowdyism” to protect the saffron party’s interests and that BJP would go for an “Operation Lotus” before the upcoming Assembly polls has gone viral.

Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) has announced menstruation leave for its girl students. This is the first time in Kerala that menstrual leave is given for students.

The Lok Sabha Secretariat issued a notification on Friday disqualifying Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal, who was recently convicted in an attempt to murder case by a court in the...

Afeefa, Muslim girl in Karnataka who was forced to drop out of school after hijab ban in the state bagged A grade in Kannada elocution at the Kerala State School Arts Festival.

"The Karnataka Government has a constitutional responsibility to respond to the continuing violations of fundamental rights of young Muslim women," the Karnataka chapter of People’s Union for Civil Liberties...

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi, who addressed the year’s first session of State Legislative Assembly on Monday, skipped references to father of the Indian Constitution B. R. Ambedkar, Dravidar Kazhagam founder Periyar, former Chief Ministers K. Kamaraj and C. N. Annadurai, as well as the “Dravidian model” of government, mentioned in the 65th paragraph of the printed copy of his speech.

19-year-old student Mohammed Anikh, a Kerala student of the SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, died by suicide at his house in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.

There has been a significant shift of Muslim students from government to private pre-university colleges (PUC) in Karnataka's Udupi district, the epicentre of movement against Hijab ban, according The Indian Express.

The News Minute reporter Saradha U died in Chennai, a few days after she tested positive for dengue and typhoid. She was 22.

An inaugural skit at Kerala State School Art Festival depicting Muslims as terrorists has sparked outrage in Kerala, with Muslim bodies calling out Kerala government’s “blatant Islamophobia.”