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Raman Pillai: The celeb lawyer who helped actor Dileep walk scot-free

After his acquittal in the actor assault case, Malayalam actor Dileep went straight to meet the man he said he “owes his life” to: senior advocate...

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Maria Teresa Raju

‘Overcrowded, underfed’: Manipur planned to shut relief camps in Dec, but many still ‘trapped’

Thirty-nine-year-old Tingkim says she is down to her last Rs 200. What worries her most is the embarrassment of being unable to contribute to...

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Prateek Goyal

5 years, 416 complaints, just 12 fines: The mute button of Indian news TV’s first self-regulator

By September this year, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority had received 26 complaints against some of India’s biggest news...

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Sumedha Mittal

The judge behind Dileep’s acquittal: Who is Honey Varghese?

On a February morning in 2025, all eyes turned to a woman in green as she entered the packed courtroom in Ernakulam and walked to the bench where...

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Haritha John

Dileep acquitted in 2017 actor assault case, Pulsar Suni convicted

In a deeply troubling turn of events, a Kerala sessions court has convicted prime accused Pulsar Suni but acquitted Malayalam actor Dileep in the...

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Sukanya Shaji

How Himalayan states have higher food prices

The cost of groceries per person per day in Mizoram was Rs 77.5 in November 2025, about Rs 20 more than the all-India average (Rs 57), as per  Food...

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Nushaiba Iqbal

8 years of twists: The full timeline of the Kerala actor assault case

Eight years ago, a top female actor was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in a moving car in Kerala’s Kochi. A couple of months later, Dileep, a...

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Megha Mukundan

Before today’s verdict: The Dileep–Kerala actor assault case in a nutshell

On December 8, a Sessions court in Ernakulam, Kerala, will pronounce the verdict in the case of a well-known south Indian actor who was sexually...

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Shivani Kava

Inside the twisted mind of a hired rapist

There are some things ‘Pulsar’ Suni will not talk about. “I will never tell you, or anyone else, where the phone is,” he said...

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Nidhi Suresh

‘River will suffer’: Inside Keonjhar’s farm resistance against ESSAR’s iron ore project

Residents of Tikarpada, Kadagada and nearby villages in Odisha’s Keonjhar district are protesting ESSAR’s proposed iron ore beneficiation project,...

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Akankhya Rout

2 UP towns, 1 script: A ‘land jihad’ conspiracy theory to target Muslims buying homes?

In Meerut and Bulandshahr, two Muslim families set out to build a better life in the homes they had just bought. But almost immediately, local...

05.12.2025 1

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Samarth Grover

After TNM report on leaked theatre footage, KSFDC strengthens CCTV safeguards

TNM recently published an investigative story  on how CCTV footage that captured intimate moments of couples from cinema theatres was leaked and...

04.12.2025 1

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Megha Mukundan

Dispatch from Dadri: The lynching that shook India, and govt U-turn stirring it again

The Uttar Pradesh government has moved a Greater Noida court seeking to withdraw all charges against the accused in the 2015 Mohammad Akhlaq...

04.12.2025 1

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Avdhesh Kumar

Movie theatre CCTV clips are being sold as soft porn

This is the first story from our investigative series on ‘The Shady Business of Stolen Footage’ where we uncover the vast underground economy...

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Megha Mukundan

Beyond ‘divyangjan’, ‘sabka saath’ rhetoric, India is a country of barriers for the disabled

Jimmy* is 19, studying at a government college in Nagpur, dealing with Charcot–Marie–Tooth (CMT) disease, a degenerative nerve disorder that...

03.12.2025 1

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Shardool Katyayan

‘We have to live with air pollution’: Delhi’s athletes, parents and coaches feel they have no choice

Sitting in his chair at a cricket ground in West Delhi’s Shakurpur, 73-year-old Shrawan Kumar watches around 50 school-going boys and girls rotate...

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit