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,
I had a brief experience with a fraternity at Cornell University. I was a senior in high school. I stayed in a frat for a weekend with a former high school classmate.
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Violence against Bangladesh’s Hindu minority has produced killings, attacks on homes and businesses, damage to temples and continuing fears over security and property. Whatever the motive in individual cases—religious hatred, political vengeance,
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Thirty years after Alicia Giménez Bartlett created Petra Delicado, the Spanish author is marking the anniversary with Bajo el cielo infernal, the thirteenth novel in the detective series and a story that
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The alleged group rape of a Cornell University student has become one of the most serious scandals in the 161-year history of the elite New York institution, while also exposing a legal
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Christa Pike's survival has exposed a contradiction that capital punishment normally conceals. The state can declare a life forfeit, but when its machinery of death fails, it suddenly becomes responsible for keeping
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A senior figure in Sri Lanka’s Frontline Socialist Party has claimed that two-thirds of the country’s population has fallen into poverty under the current administration, while 21% of children under the age
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Part 1 Look at the ordinary things around you. The clothes on your back, the cup beside you, the wires in the wall, the screen in your hand. Hardly any of it
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A critical examination of the growing expectations placed on prison monitors—and the dangerous gap between identifying abuse and changing the system that produces it.
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In Moroni, the capital of the Comoros, access to water has become a daily struggle for residents who increasingly depend on private sellers, long queues and costly deliveries as the city’s ageing
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China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty while demand for services for older people increases.
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Passengers aboard a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv intervened in the cockpit after the aircraft began losing altitude and one pilot was allegedly stabbed by the other, according to testimonies reported by
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Four United Nations human rights mandate holders have warned the Sri Lankan government of an “immediate and grave” risk of further torture and ill-treatment facing former State Intelligence Service director general Suresh
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A significant discrepancy has emerged between a population figure published by Sri Lanka’s Central Bank for the Northern Province and the latest official census data issued by the Department of Census and
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The demolition and eviction of Muslim religious institutions in Rajasthan’s border districts in June 2026 has triggered allegations of selective enforcement and communal targeting. An APCR fact-finding investigation documented notices issued to
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The head of the company operating the Eiffel Tower will step down at the end of this year following a controversy over the removal of female staff during a private visit by
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