South India

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.

Prominent environment activist and national convenor of National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), professor Kusumam Joseph has been booked by Kerala Police over her Facebook post, appealed to the government to ensure COVID-19 relief food kits for Dalit and Adivasi families at Arippa in Kollam district.

A number of academics have signed a statement in unequivocal support of a Kerala Central University professor who is being targeted by the right wing after he referred to Sangh parivar as proto-fascist in one of his lectures.

The manual scavenging practice continues to kill people 28 years after the mandate and the authorities to curb it facilitate its existence.

Eleven Parliament members from Kerala wrote a joint representation to the newly appointed Chief Justice of India, Justice NV Ramana, seeking an urgent hearing of the matter writ petition of arrested Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan.