Representative image (AI-generated) More than 300 migrants without legal status have died while in Malaysian custody since 2020, sparking renewed concern among rights advocates over detention conditions and treatment of vulnerable groups fleeing violence and persecution.One of the latest cases is that of Ben Za Min, a 32-year-old from Myanmar’s Chin state, who died in…
Image used for representative purposes NEW DELHI: Amid attempts to link the deaths or alleged suicides by booth-level officers (BLOs), particularly in West Bengal, to “pressure” of work related to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, election-related officials pointed out that Phase-2 of the exercise was progressing at a much more relaxed pace…
BENGALURU: In 2023, the latest year for which data is available, at least 12 people died every week in India on average due to drug overdose, NCRB data reveals. That is nearly two deaths daily. Between 2019 and 2023, 3,290 deaths were attributed to the same cause, with the average for the five-year period remaining…