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Topic: migrant boats

4 August 2025: 65 migrants dead after boat sinks near Yemen & other news of the day

Saksham Thakur -
ThePrint’s round-up of the major global news events.

Over 60 feared dead after migrant boat capsizes off Cape Verde, says Senegal’s foreign ministry

Ngouda Dione -
The ministry said that the boat left Senegal on 10 July with 101 passengers on board, and 38 people were rescued on Tuesday.

26 yrs gone, most accused & witnesses dead — Malta boat tragedy case still languishes in CBI court

Ananya Bhardwaj -
On 26 December 1996, 170 Indian migrants drowned when their boat capsized near Malta. While CBI filed a chargesheet in 1997, only 11 of 206 prosecution witnesses examined so far.

Pakistanis are escaping on risky boats, through illegal routes—all for a better life

Rafia Zakaria -
Pakistan has joined the ranks of countries like Somalia and Afghanistan who are willing to take any risk at all to escape their country.

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Opinion

Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Tina Das -
Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

Why Modi’s Israel visit has become the stage for a Knesset vs Judiciary battle

Kerala beef story is more activism than accuracy today. We prefer buff anyway

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Post-elections, Bangladesh Army shuffles top military & intel posts, defence adviser in India recalled

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Orders issued by Army Headquarters reassign key operational commanders and senior intelligence officials, including the head of DGFI, the country’s premier military intelligence agency.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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