Vidya Sigamany

The autopsies of two of the three people killed by Karnataka Forest Department officials in the Chikkallur reserved forest area on suspicion of being poachers suggest that they were shot from close range, possibly a distance of less than one foot and up to two feet. Preliminary wound ballistics findings in the autopsy report and the fact that the firearm used was a shotgun raise questions about the Forest Department's claims that the men were shot in self-defence. These claims were repeated in the Legislative Assembly by Forest Minister Ramalinga Reddy.

The Sarkaria Commission report of the 1970s is back in the spotlight in the DMK corruption debate in Tamil Nadu. For years, former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa had used the Commission's findings to attack the DMK both in the Assembly and in her political speeches.

“If tomorrow the tahsildar of Charminar asks you to supply men and machinery to demolish the High Court, who is at fault?” The question hung in the courtroom.It

“R Veeramani is senior-most exporter of granite in India, he is having offices in 86 countries… he’s a top-most businessman… one of the finest gentlemen support

Standing in a group at the Kairali Theatre complex in Thiruvananthapuram, wearing black and looking dejected, are filmmakers and crew members of some of the fil

The University of Hyderabad’s student union election has ended with a result that, on the surface, looks like a reversal of last year. The left-leaning AISA-ASA

Honesty has a peculiar charm especially when it seems to stumble out of you, unplanned and unrehearsed. Archana Vasudev had not told her father anything except

After 10 days in hospital, most of them in the intensive care unit (ICU), Sona*, a 20-year-old Dalit woman and the survivor in the Kalamassery gang rape case, was discharged on Tuesday, October 13. “She is better now, she has started talking,” said her husband, who was with her at the Kalamassery Medical College in Kochi.

From the fishing communities of Thiruvananthapuram to the global biodiversity negotiations at the ongoing COP17 in Armenia, traditional knowledge is emerging as a crucial yet under-recognised force in conservation.

Twenty-two-year-old Mohammed Fayaz was walking home on the night of October 2, just past midnight, on the streets of Mahabubnagar in Telangana. When he was a fe