On 28 August 2018, homes of several civil-rights activists, lawyers and writers across India were raided by the Maharashtra police for having 'links' with Maoists. Of these, five
On 29 July 2018, a bus ran over homebound schoolchildren waiting on the sidewalk in the Kurmitola area of northern Dhaka. Two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and
On 18 August 2008, the Kosi River, a large tributary of the Ganga, burst through a man-made embankment on its eastern edge at Kusaha village in Nepal's southeastern
The late-night abduction, detention, custodial assault and subsequent arrest – this sequence is not unimportant – of the renowned Bangladeshi photographer, educator and activist Shahidul Alam has shocked civil-society activists and journalists
