New Delhi: In a project monitoring hate crimes and hate speech across six north Indian states since October 2021, The Wire’s Heartland Hatewatch has quantified at least 89 instances of reported hate crimes and hate speeches across four months in the lead up to the

Gujarat: The Congress has challenged the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Indian state of Gujarat to bring in a proposal to declare Nathuram Godse as nation’s “first terrorist” and an “anti-national”, if they truly believed in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Speaking at the motion of

Geneva: Nearly 100,000 children live in institutions and boarding schools in Ukraine and parental consent should be sought before evacuating them abroad during the Russian invasion, the United Nations said. The heads of the UN agencies for refugees and for children made a joint plea for

Kabul: Nearly 400 civilians have been killed in attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, more than 80% of them by a group affiliated to Islamic State, a UN report shows, underscoring the scale of the insurgency faced by the new rulers. It is the first

Beirut: As more Ukrainian towns and cities come under siege, concern is mounting for millions of civilians in the crossfire. Russia has announced the establishment of safe corridors to allow civilians to leave, but there appeared to be few takers. Evacuation routes led mostly to Russia

Washington: North Korea's missile launches could be groundwork for a return to intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear bomb tests this year for the first time since 2017, the US Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) said in its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment. On Tuesday, US-based analysts said

Islamabad: Saima Saleem made headlines last year when she addressed the UN General Assembly with a fierce speech in support of the right of Kashmiris to self-determination. All cameras were on her as she sat behind the Pakistan nameplate at the assembly’s hall and read

Lahore: The military siege has been imposed on some ten million Kashmiris in Indian  Occupied Kashmir (IOK) since August 5, 2019 and the suppressed Kashmiris continued to face gross human rights violations at the hands of more than 700,000 Indian forces deployed in the valley. The

New Delhi: Adivasi women in India continue to pay the price for being defenders of their lands, shows a report by advocacy group Survival International released on the occasion of International Women's Day. The report titled ‘Brutalized for resistance: The assault on Indigenous women in Modi’s