Jehangir Ali Panicking at the distant clatter of rockfall in the higher reaches of a forest bordering his village, Fareed Ahmad, a mentally unwell farmer who raises two cows and a buffalo for a living, rang up his elder brother, Sabir Ali, pleading him to check out the cause of …
Read More »Feature: Trafficked, Rescued, Re-trafficked: Plight of Minor Girls in Jharkhand’s Simdega
(The Quint) In Jharkhand's Simdega, The Quint met a minor who got trafficked to Haryana and Punjab twice.
Read More »Feature: 5 Girls & a Train Ride: Minors Trafficked to Delhi Return Home to Jharkhand
ASHNA BUTANI As the bus crossed a dense forest in Jharkhand’s Simdega on Sunday, 19 February, the 17-year-old girl’s face lit up. “Yeh dekho, yeh Palash ka ped hai (Look at this, this is a Palash tree),” she said. The fiery red flowers decorated the afternoon sky and assured her that she …
Read More »Feature: Lessons from Turkiye, Syria quake: J&Kon powder keg of high magnitude earthquakes
(Greater Kashmir) Increasing tectonic activity in Pir Panjal, Zanskar ranges worries experts
Read More »Feature: A Kashmir family waits in dread for news of son ‘missing’ from Army custody
(Scroll.in) The Army says Abdul Rashid Dar escaped a day after they picked him up for questioning; his family members don’t buy the claim
Read More »Feature: “Being a Muslim itself is a crime in present-day India”: Memoir of an NIA raid
Ashfaque EJ On 29 December 2022, through the state highway of Kerala, an NIA vehicle was passing at around 4 am, accompanied by a local police vehicle. A Few metres after the vehicle took a right turn to the gutter road through the rural landscape and stopped in front of …
Read More »Feature: Top investigating officer admits Elgar Parishad event ‘had no role’ in Bhima Koregaon violence
(The Wire) This is perhaps the first time any state representative has accepted that the Elgar Parishad event had no role to play in the violence. While three activists have been released on bail, and one died in custody, 12 continue to be jailed over this claim.
Read More »Feature: ‘Tell Us What You Did to Him,’ Family of Kashmiri Man Who Went ‘Missing’ in Custody Tells Army
(The Wire) Abdul Rashid Dar was picked up from Kunan village by Army soldiers last Thursday for an unspecified investigation. A day later, his family received word that the Army was claiming that he fled their custody.
Read More »Feature: Fear persists 10 years after Delhi gang rape and murder
(AFP) India registered 31,677 rape cases last year, an average of 86 a day, according to the latest official criminal statistics.
Read More »Feature: With horrendous HRs record, India ride on Hindutva tide to stifle, persecute, dehumanize Muslims, minorities
International Human Rights Day is being commemorated on December 10 across the globe with a commitment to uphold the United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), ensuring basic human rights to all people. But India, despite being on the radar of global human rights bodies, …
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