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Nusum Sudhakar Reddy. Credit: x.com/TelanganaACB — ACB nabs Huzurabad engineer taking Rs 50,000 bribe

Telangana caste survey — Is poverty casteless? Telangana caste survey finds SCs, STs three times more backward than upper castes

Modi government forces unfair delimitation under the garb of women's reservation bill — The real picture

Representational image. Credit: iStock — Telangana releases caste survey, reveals BCs make up 56% of state’s population

Six days on, Kerala BDS student’s death leaves more questions than answers

Delimitation challenge — Redrawing India’s democracy: The delimitation Bill’s hidden cost

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin burning a copy of the delimitation Bill. — ‘Fire will spread across Dravidian land’: Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin burns copy of delimitation Bill

Kerala monsoon — Weather update: Forecast for Southern cities on 16 April

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According to the Indian Constitution, constituency boundaries and the number of seats in legislative bodies are determined based on census data. However, during the Emergency, the then-prime minister Indira Gandhi halted the delimitation process through the 42nd Constitutional Amendment. (iStock) — Delimitation and South India’s compulsions: Not wrath, but a test of federal maturity

Heart health. Representative image. — Kerala looks healthier on paper — but South India’s data tells a different story

India’s go-to diabetes test under scrutiny as experts argue over biological blind spots

Vinay Kulkarni. — Karnataka Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni convicted for murder of BJP leader Yogesh Gowda

Transgender person in Kochi gives birth to biological child — Activists urge Telangana to pass resolution against Transgender Amendment Act

Opposition leaders denounce Centre for using women’s reservation to force delimitation

Nara Lokesh. Credit: x.com/naralokesh — TDP revamps structure, elevates Nara Lokesh as national working president

The 131st Amendment Bill is not delimitation. It is South India’s disenfranchisement