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Israel’s Rafah camp – ‘humanitarian city’ or crime against humanity?

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has announced a controversial plan to move up to 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza into a designated “humanitarian area” on the ruins of the southern...

Science, not Islam, is teaching Muslims how to deal with the coronavirus

Image Courtesy:aljazeera.comReligion, Marx argued was the ‘heart of a...

Covid-19 deaths: Ash to ash, dust to dust

WHO puts and end to the bury vs. cremate controversy as families struggle to find an ideal way to bid adieu to their loved ones

Will India lift the incoming flight ban to let visa overstayers fly back from the US?

US President Donald Trump has said he will order visa sanctions on countries that don’t take back illegal “aliens” in the U.S.

Medical ‘Wonder Women’ making a difference in the region’s fight on coronavirus

Beyond Tunisia, many medical professionals across the Arab world are setting an example and giving their all to help win the battle.

India should stop flying blind: John Hopkins COVID report

The report suggests that health care workers safety be prioritised and surveys on immunity building be conducted for better visibility

Covid-19: What’s in a name?

The WHO has laid down specific guidelines for the naming of infectious diseases

Cuban doctors lead by example; set to treat Covid-19 patients in 37 countries

A team of 52 Cuban epidemic specialists land in Italy responding to its call to help battle Covid-19

Covid-19: What happens to prisoners, now?

Iran has released thousands, measures to check infection in other countries, but how will India cope?

COVID-19: Spain takes control of private hospitals, an example to follow?

Spain has resorted to such drastic health care measures to combat the spread of the disease, as situation worsens

Motion against India’s divisive Citizenship Amendment Act moved in New Westminster

Following in the footsteps of Seattle City council, which...

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Development by Displacement: Assam evicts thousands for Adani project without due process

In the name of industrial progress, the Assam government has unleashed bulldozers across Dhubri and Goalpara, displacing thousands, mainly flood-hit, landless, Bengali-origin Muslims. With no meaningful rehabilitation. As land is cleared for a Rs 40,000 crore Adani power project, what’s being erased is more than just homes: it’s the fragile stability of lives long on the edge

Indian Muslims need to be protected as much from the communalism of their co-religionists as majoritarian communalism: In remembrance of CM Naim

An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85. Here his work is remembered for its out of the box thinking and commitment to both the culture and language around Urdu; an essay that recalls his works

Delhi Court sentences riots accused for promoting hatred against Muslims, sentences him to 3 years in custody

Lokesh Kumar Solanki convicted for inciting violence during 2020 Delhi riots; court calls his conduct “fuel to already simmering tensions” but releases him citing maximum sentence already served

Harassment by Delhi Police, blatant extortion & human rights’ violation in process of identification of “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”: Brinda Karat to HM Amit Shah

Brinda Karat, former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-CPIM), has in a letter to the union home minister, Amit Shah highlighted the blatant violation of human rights, harassment and extortion, in the ongoing process of "identification of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants" by the Delhi police and other agencies.

Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states

Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer

Thane School Horror: Principal, attendant arrested for forcing girls to strip in menstruation check, case registered under POCSO

Girls as young as 10 were allegedly stripped and subjected to invasive checks by school staff in Thane’s Shahapur after bloodstains were found in a washroom, prompting arrests, protests, and charges under POCSO and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita