India
Kerala: 22,129 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, tally crosses 33 lakh
Kerala on Tuesday recorded 22,129 fresh COVID-19 cases, pushing the infection caseload to 33,05,245, with the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) going back to more than 12 per cent.
India
Tamil Nadu: Dalit Christians protest caste discrimination in Catholic Church
Dalit Christians in Tamil Nadu have staged a protest against caste discrimination in the Catholic Church ahead of the consecration of Bishop Arulselvam Rayappan in Salem.
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India
“Deprived of rights,” Muslim orgs in Kerala to launch joint agitation against left govt
Marking their opposition to the CPI(M) led government’s decision to rejig the minority scholarship ratio, an umbrella body of Muslim organisations in Kerala on Sunday has constituted a Sachar Samrakshana Samithi (roughly translates as Save Sachar [Sachar Commission] Committee).
India
Kerala High Court imposes Rs 25K on Hindu org for challenging minority quota
The Kerala High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on the Hindu Sevakendram, while dismissing a petition seeking to declare that Muslims, Latin Catholics, Christian Nadars and Scheduled Castes converted to any denomination in Christianity are not entitled to be treated as backward classes.
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India
“Institutional Murder,” Protests over Kerala’s first transgender radio jockey’s death
Anannyah Kumari Alex, a well-known transgender media personality from Kerala, who was the first from her community to file nomination papers as a candidate for the Kerala Assembly elections this time, was found dead in an apartment in Kochi on Tuesday, a week after she accused Dr Arjun Asokan, a plastic surgeon at Renai Medicity in Kochi of medical negligence.
Film and TV
Telugu actor, Dalit intellectual Kathi Mahesh dies at 43
Popular Telugu movie critic, actor and Dalit intellectual Kathi Mahesh Kumar who had sustained grievous injuries in a road accident on June 26, is no more. He was 43.
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India
PK Warrier, who added to the fame of Ayurveda, dies at 100
PK Warrier, who added to the fame of Ayurveda, has died at 100 on Saturday.
India
Lawyers, Researchers urge President to withdraw Draft Lakshadweep Development Authority Regulation 2021
More than 58 lawyers and researchers have written a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind with the request to withdraw the draft Lakshadweep Development Authority Regulation 2021 (LDAR) in the interest and well-being of the citizens of islands.
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India
IIT Madras prof’s resignation over casteism substantiates our claims, says Fathima Latheef’s sister
"I feel the recent resignation of the Assistant Professor from the same Humanities and Social Sciences department is substantiating our claim of caste and religious discrimination in the campus," says Ayisha Latheef, twin sister of Fathima Latheef, a first-year Master’s student at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, who was found dead in her hostel room on 9 November in 2019 following she had faced religious discrimination from her professors.
South India
Kerala baby with rare genetic disease awaits sponsors
Kerala parents Rafeeque and Mariyumma seek help to save their 18 months old baby Muhammed who is suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) type 1, a rare genetic disease. The cost for one-time gene therapy would be 18 crore rupees and the drug has to be imported.
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India
2 years of caste discrimination: Assistant Professor quits IIT Madras
Another case of casteism has now come to light from one of India's premier institutes, IIT. Vipin Pudiyath Veetil, an assistant professor in Indian Institute of Technology-Madras resigned alleging caste discrimination.
India
Kerala govt under fire over police chief’s “recruiting ground for terrorism” remarks
The outgoing Director General of Police (DGP) of the Kerala State Police, Lokanath Behera was in the midst of a fresh row as his remark that Kerala has become recruiting ground for terror outfits, leading Opposition parties and Muslim groups to condemn the left ruling State's police chief's "pro-Sangh Parivar" remarks.
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