South India

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday expressed concern over the rising cases of COVID-19 in rural Kerala.

Facebook has banned renowned poet and critic K. Satchidanandan for 24 hours after the poet uploaded a video on the BJP's defeat in Kerala assembly elections and an advertisement for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The people who were targeted were young in their earlier 20s looking for a job, being bread winners and labelled as terrorist are now uncertain of their future, the police have threatened them a lot.

Senior Congress politician and Opposition Leader of Telangana Legislative Council, Mohammed Ali Shabbir has said that the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments must take immediate legal measures to protect the 4 per cent Muslim quota in jobs and education sector, warning of a threat to the continuance of the quota in the wake of the recent Supreme Court verdict.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday announced a COVID-19 pandemic time relief of Rs 2,000 for the people of the state, a cut in Aavin milk rate and free travel for women in state-run buses, all promises made by his DMK ahead of the April 6 Assembly elections.

A group of more than 100 people from Kerala including Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha members, Kerala Assembly members, rights activists and academics have issued a statement expressing their solidarity...

“They will always hunt down people who fight for justice," says Fathima Bathool, wife of Campus Front of India national general secretary Rauf Shareef who was arrested initially by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for money laundering and then later was charged under draconian UAPA by Uttar Pradesh police, accusing of stirring unrest in Hathras following the caste killing of a Dalit woman.

The Congress strongly objected Bharatiya Janata Party’s Bangalore South MP and controversial Hindutva face Tejasvi Surya falsely accusing Muslims for corruption in the Bengaluru Municipal Coroporation South Zone's COVID-19 war room and spreading venom against Muslims.

24 Covid-19 patients died in the last 24 hours after a government hospital in Karnataka ran out of medical oxygen.

Claiming victory of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the Kerala polls, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said, "Our victory today is the victory of the people. We believe in the people and they have trust in us. That's why we have won more seats than 2016. We can go into the details of the election at a later time."

In Tamil Nadu, all the surveys have predicted a DMK-Left-Congress alliance victory with predicting it would win between 175-195 seats out of 234.

The ruling CPI(M)-LDF and Opposition Congress-headed UDF are waiting with fingers crossed as the outcome of the fiercely fought April 6 Kerala Assembly polls is only hours away with counting to be held on Sunday.