March 31, 2025
Between 2023 and 2025, a total of 9,308 cybercrime complaints were published, and 8,485 of these cases were resolved (HINDUSTIAN TIMES). In response, 151 officials and 113 police officers were deployed to handle the growing number of cybercrimes (HINDUSTIAN TIMES). The cyber war in Tripura began in 2023, when a 148% increase in cybercrime cases […]
April 21, 2023
On March 31, 2022, the Indian Government lifted all Covid-19 restrictions (Business Today, 2022). Despite that decision, millions of migrants or “informal” workers in India are still locked in exploitative debt bondage arrangements at increasing levels. Despite supposed government intervention this Human Rights crisis has only deepened due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. India […]
November 28, 2022
The U.S. military is scheduled to take part on a joint military exercise with India near its disputed border with China in the Tibetan region in October[i]. This event only tops the list of increased tensions between both powers for control over the region. In 2020, a clash between soldiers from both nations in the […]
November 8, 2021
India has recently announced plans to restart the exportation of Covid-19 vaccines to neighboring and allied countries. India has been the largest exporter of vaccines during the pandemic with over 66 million vaccines donated or sold to countries before their second wave of cases hit earlier this year (Arora & Das, 2021). The government wants […]
April 22, 2020
India has extended the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown until May 3rd, 2020 (AP). India went into lockdown on March 25th, 2020, closing schools, offices, factories, parks, temples, railways, and airspace (NYT). The lockdown was originally set to be lifted on April 14th, 2020 but will now last for a few more weeks. At the end […]
March 31, 2020
On March 24, 2020Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered India’s 1.3 billion people to stay inside of their homes for 21 days (NY Times 1). Prime Minister Modi stated, “To save India and every Indian, there will be a total ban on venturing out” (AP). This is the largest and most severe action taken […]
March 20, 2020
India has freed Kashmir’s three-time chief minister and top leader Farooq Abdullah. (Reuters). Abdullah was one of several politicians taken into detention in August of 2019 (U.S. News). His imprisonment was done in an attempt to prevent large scale protests from erupting over the loss of Kashmir’s regional autonomy (Reuters). During his time in detention, […]
