Malayalam actor Dileep cast his vote in the Aluva municipality in Kerala local body elections. He was accompanied by wife Kavya Madhavan who exercised her right to her vote. His appearance came a day after being acquitted in the 2017 Malayalam actor assault case. The two were surrounded by media outside the polling booth. However, … Read more
The Supreme Court had directed the Centre to constitute a committee to monitor such incidents of racial violence and hate crimes, and to recommend preventive measures. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court on Tuesday (November 11, 2025) expressed strong disapproval of the recent incident in which two students from Kerala were allegedly … Read more
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister and BJP state president Babulal Marandi’s wife and daughter-in-law were allegedly assaulted by members of the Amrit Nagar Puja Committee in Hazaribagh on Thursday evening. According to an FIR filed by Preeti Kisku, daughter-in-law of Marandi, she was traveling from Giridih to Ranchi with her mother-in-law around 7:15 pm when the … Read more
A government school headmaster, who was under probe for allegedly harassing an assistant teacher, thrashed an education officer with a belt inside the latter’s office in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district. The shocking incident, caught on CCTV, took place on Wednesday during an enquiry against the accused, Brijendra Verma, who was later arrested following a complaint … Read more
Alex McIntyre BBC News, West Midlands Getty Images Dr Sayed Talibi shared an image of him performing brain surgery on his dating profile (stock picture) A doctor has been struck off for assaulting a woman, making racist or derogatory comments and uploading an image of a patient’s brain on his dating profile. Dr Sayed Talibi, … Read more
The Sakal Hindu Samaj, a consortium of various organizations, has announced a mass protest in Kalaburagi on Tuesday against the sexual assault on a minor in Nandikur Tanda on the outskirts of Kalaburagi. Members of the samaj Divya Hagaragi and Ramchandra Jadhav, addressing the press here on Sunday, said that the religious heads of various … Read more
Mohammed Imitaz (65), who runs a leather factory in Vaniyambadi, employed K. Sakthivel, one of the accused, as a security guard in his house a few months ago. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A 45-year-old private security guard from Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh was among four persons arrested by Vaniyambadi Town police in Tirupattur on … Read more
Music mogul Jay-Z, whose legal name is Shawn Carter, has filed a defamation lawsuit against an anonymous woman, identified only as “Jane Doe,” who accused him of raping her when she was 13. The lawsuit, filed on Monday in federal court in the Southern District of Alabama, alleges the claims were “false” and intended for … Read more
Anna University. File | Photo Credit: PTI The all-woman Special Investigation Team (SIT), constituted by the Madras High Court, has filed a charge sheet against Gnanasekaran, the sole accused in the Anna University sexual assault case. Sources in the Police department said the charge sheet was filed before a Metropolitan Magistrate Court in the city. … Read more
Illustration for The Hindu | Photo Credit: Satheesh Vellinezhi An alleged sexual assault on a nine-year-old girl studying in a private CBSE school near Manapparai in Tiruchi district sparked protests in the late hours on Thursday (February 6, 2025) with a group of people vandalising a nearby matriculation school belonging to the same management and … Read more