Alleged irregularities in medical procurement in Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have exposed vulnerabilities in public purchasing, including suspected price inflation, manipulated tenders and collusion between officials and private suppliers. As political
Children as young as 12 are becoming involved in attacks linked to online communities that glorify mass shootings, celebrate violence and exploit vulnerable young people, according to an assessment by The Soufan Center, which warns that youth involvement in violent
Having failed on multiple occasions to reach consensus with the LTTE, Sri Lanka, finally, during President Mahinda Rajapaksa tenure, launched all-out war. The LTTE
Countries across Asia and the Pacific have made remarkable strides over the past three decades in tackling poverty through a combination of economic growth,
The smartphone has turned even the bathroom into a place of digital escape, raising wider questions about attention, relationships and the ability to disconnect. For many people, controlling the amount of time
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On July 1, 2026, the day China’s new Ethnic Unity law went into effect, a storm of criticism ensued. All major Western media, governments, politicians and human rights groups raced to denounce
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Once again, the spectre of the hangman has returned to Sri Lanka’s policy discourse. At the “Ratama Ekata” National Operations Council convened at the Presidential Secretariat on 10 August 2026, the imposition
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“I have two minutes of phone time left. I don’t know if I will still be alive tomorrow. If we speak again, I will be very grateful to you.” Those were the
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Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the country’s education crisis is becoming a wider threat to its social and economic future. Girls remain barred from school beyond the
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On July 30, 2026, enormous crowds crossed from Morocco into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta. Within hours, Spanish authorities estimated that roughly 72,000 had entered Ceuta, overwhelming a city of just 83,000 residents.
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, has warned that a new Russian law imposing sweeping restrictions on Russians living abroad represents an
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In recent times, the term Gen Z and the concept have been subjected to intense debate in the print, visual and social media and in debating forums. There have been conflicting views
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Meta said on Thursday it had removed more than 750,000 accounts it suspected were operated by Australians under the age of 16 since the country introduced a world-first ban on social media
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For 27 years, Ahmad Khan’s life was in Pakistan. Originally from Afghanistan, he ran a small shoe shop in Sialkot in the north, sent his children to a local school and watched
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Erblin Ademi watched from a distance as workers began excavating recently discovered mass graves in Kosovo. Nearly 30 years after his father disappeared during the 1998-99 war, Ademi is caught between fear
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Lebanon has formally abolished the death penalty, marking a significant legal and human rights shift in the Middle East after more than two decades in which executions had effectively been suspended but
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Five years after the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, the country is confronting a humanitarian crisis that is becoming harder to contain. Millions are struggling with hunger and disease, families have
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More than 130 people have died and over 2,000 are reported missing after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Colombia, triggering a nationwide emergency and a major search-and-rescue operation across affected communities. The
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While centre driven and managed high level economic changes, both structural and financial, are necessary, an assumption that the benefits of such changes will flow to the periphery through a trickledown theory
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