He has been on the run before, playing side and seek with the Indian authorities for over a decade now. But will the law ever be able to catch up with fugitive godman Nithyananada aka A Rajashekaran, who has fled the country following serious charges including rape, sodomy, torture, child…
Following directions of the Karnataka High Court, the Karnataka government hastily readied the Foreigner Detention Centre (FDC) in the outskirts of Bengaluru a month back. The centre is meant for housing those who have illegally entered the country and for those foreigners whose visas and passports have expired. This facility…
Harobele, a nondescript village in southern Karnataka, may have put itself on the world map overnight with its proposal to build the world’s tallest Jesus Christ statue in a 10 acre land atop a hillock called Kapalabetta. But strong opposition to the project by Hindu hardliners has visibly shaken the…
Sitting through a video session on a medical procedure with graphic visuals was not how this 25-year-old had imagined her assignment to pan out on a weekday morning. Squeamish and terribly confused, she was all set to bail out. But she remembers being coaxed by her peers to stay back…
“I’d rather have my mother poisoned and taken to her grave, than have her sent to a detention centre,” says a distressed Ayesha Siddiqua, a mother of four and an entrepreneur. Ever since she saw a video of the mass detention centres in Assam, where the National Register of Citizens…