30-year-old Rajeswari, who had her left leg amputated following the accident, was the lone breadwinner in her family. Please contribute
54-year-old Chithra has a forlorn look on her face. Sitting on the floor of a busy private hospital in Coimbatore, her thoughts are all with her daughter Rajeswari, who is in the Intensive Care of Unit (ICU). Rajeswari, also known as Anuradha among her family members and friends, was grievously injured on Monday after a lorry ran over both her legs in an accident. Rajeswari’s left leg has now been amputated at the knee.
56-year-old Karuppiah, a resident of Melavalavu village in Madurai has barely slept the last week. The Dalit man who works as a clerk in a Judicial Magistrate court in the district has been plagued by flashes of an afternoon from 22 years ago - when he saw the body of his brother Murugesan strewn on a public road, flanked by the corpses of five other men from his community.
The five-judge Constitution Bench on Thursday in a 3:2 majority judgment referred the Sabarimala issue to a seven-judge Supreme Court bench, and posed seven questions for the larger bench to answer. The court said that matters that include interpretation of the Constitutional provisions that talk about the right to profess, practice and propagate religion should be heard by a larger bench.
Sixteen out of the total 17 disqualified Congress and JD(S) MLAs of the Karnataka Assembly joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday. This comes after the Supreme Court verdict on Wednesday upheld their disqualifications but allowed them to contest in the bye-elections set to be held on December 5. All disqualified MLAs, with the exception of former Shivajinagar MLA Roshan Baig, were inducted into the BJP during a ceremony held at the party's office in Bengaluru. Fifteen constituencies will go to polls next month, with the exception of RR Nagar and Maski constituencies.
Days after his 19-year-old daughter, a class topper at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, killed herself in her hostel room in Chennai, Abdul Latheef has demanded a fair probe into the death of his eldest daughter. At a press conference on Tuesday, the distraught father expressed fears that his daughter Fathima's mobile phone containing her suicide note would be tampered with, under 'undue influence' of IIT authorities.
The SC said Speaker cannot disqualify a MLA till the end of the term of the Assembly.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the former Karnataka Speaker’s order disqualifying 17 rebel Congress and JD(S) legislators. However, the apex court struck down the Speaker order, which barred the disqualified MLAs from contesting any election until the end of the present Karnataka Assembly term. This is a win for the Congress and JD(S) rebels as they will now be allowed to contest the bye-elections that are to be held in 15 segments on December 5.
22-year-old Ranjithkumar stands forlorn outside a government mortuary in Royapettah, Chennai. Dressed in a black T-shirt, he runs his fingernails darkened by grime across his face, a vacant expression in his eyes. His hair is matted with muck, specks of which cover his clothing. But when a friend hands over a wet cloth to help him wipe off the dirt, he waves it off, choosing to keep the reminder of a traumatic night - one which he survived, but his brother Arunkumar did not.