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Free travel for women is a right worth funding. But a renamed scheme that counts rides without publishing jobs, income, savings or safety outcomes is branding, not governance.
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Karnataka ASHA workers protested in Karwar, Shivamogga and Hassan demanding Rs 15,000 monthly remuneration and relief from entering SAMASTA health data on their personal phones.
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A year after India's blind women lifted the T20 World Cup, the captain still waits for her promised house site and her teammates for jobs. The garlands have wilted, and so have the promises. This is how the Indian state treats its daughters once the cameras leave.
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Nearly a year after India's blind women won the T20 World Cup, captain Deepika T.C. still waits for the house site she was promised and her teammates for government jobs. Leaders garlanded them; the promises withered.
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Chennai police have arrested three of R. Veeramani's drivers on abetment charges and searched their residences, days after the granite baron was detained under the Goondas Act. Five cases now stand against the 84-year-old — including abetment of a minor's 2004 suicide.
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A mother complained in 2004 and the police buried it. Twenty-two years later, a WhatsApp message unearthed what money and power had kept filed away. The Veeramani case is not a failure of the system — it is the system, working as designed.
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On bypoll eve, Vijay warned the DMK not to 'attack' women in his circle, while DMK ministers face a Rs 1-crore defamation suit. Both camps have discovered women's dignity — as a campaign weapon. Periyar would have asked a harder question: where were you when the cameras were off?
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Activists smashed the glass doors of Cornell's Day Hall at 3 a.m. on Oct 5 and spray-painted 'Smash the patriarchy' in red — fury over a lawsuit alleging seven Chi Phi fraternity members gang-raped a student in 2024. Students rallied that evening demanding the fraternity system be abolished.
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A Karnataka prisons DIG stands accused of trading a convict's freedom for his wife's body. If the allegation holds, it exposes the oldest corruption of all: custody converted into currency, and a human being into a commodity.
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DIG of Prisons M. Somashekhar allegedly sexually exploited a convict's wife in exchange for her husband's parole and release, the woman claimed in a court statement under Section 183 BNSS. Her husband was freed on a forged Supreme Court order.
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On the eve of the October 6 bypoll, CM Vijay accused DMK president M.K. Stalin of objectionable remarks about TVK candidate P. Sathyabama, his party calling it body-shaming. With a cash-for-votes petition before the EC, the campaign's loudest exchange is about words, not the money trail.
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Governor Kathy Hochul vowed to close a gap in New York's sexual-assault law that makes voluntary intoxication a barrier to rape prosecutions, after a Cornell student's case exposed a closed investigation, an omitted witness statement, and a university review agreed to under pressure.
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At a TVK rally in Madurantakam, Chief Minister Vijay accused the DMK of burying the Veeramani POCSO complaint and demanded Stalin answer — turning an active probe involving minor girls into bypoll rhetoric. The DMK denies it; courts have warned against using the case for electoral gain.
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Two women from Nagaland were allegedly molested by a man from Uttar Pradesh in the lobby of Kolkata's JW Marriott on the EM Bypass between 12.30 am and 1 am while they were cheering for the Brazil team; police have arrested the accused and registered a case.
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