On August 14, at 11:55 p.m., women from West Bengal will take back the streets as we celebrate the 78th year of India’s independence.Their campaign, “Women, Reclaim the Night: The Night is Ours,” will take place in three important Kolkata locations: College Street, the Academy of Fine Arts, and Jadavpur 8 B Stand.
The trainee doctor who was raped and killed at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was choked to death, according to the postmortem report.
Women and girls were reportedly raped and among more than two dozen people killed during days of violence in Papua New Guinea’s north-west.
Mburu Wanyoike’s journey from gang member to nationally recognized swordsman, despite growing up in an impoverished neighborhood in Kenya, is as unlikely as it is inspirational.
Hundreds of people have been reported missing and are thought to have been victims of violence between rival criminal groups in the bordering Mexican State of Sonora. Reporter Ruben Pereida joined a group of people known as the “Caborca Trackers” who are on a grim quest for missing victims. Veronica Villafañe narrates the story.
A Cambodian court has charged two Chinese nationals with the torture and murder of a South Korean social media influencer whose body was found on the outskirts of Phnom Penh earlier this month.
A woman who was arrested this week may have killed 13 people with cyanide, Thai police said Friday as they announced premeditated murder charges against her in two of the cases of lethal poisoning.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday directed authorities to disband all politician-controlled private armed groups (PAG), the defense chief said, amid a spate of deadly attacks on local officials.
Three Philippine police officers who went into hiding after being implicated in the 2020 killing of a Spanish surfer during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war have voluntarily surrendered, the justice department said Wednesday.
High school student Hu Xinyu, whose body was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area near his school, died by suicide using shoelaces, police investigating his death announced on Thursday.