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Topic: trafficking

Fake scans, no record of real parents: Couples entangled in Secunderabad-Vizag surrogacy fraud tell their tale

Couples paid up to Rs 30 lakh for a child Dr Pachipala Namratha promised was theirs. Police say newborns were bought and handed over; names of biological parents never recorded.

100% success rate, not one real surrogacy: Inside the Telangana-Andhra Pradesh ‘baby trafficking racket’

Dr Pachipala Namratha's fertility clinics ran in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh for nearly 3 decades. Her patients got someone else’s child. Her agents got Rs 50k a baby, police say.

Baby bought for 4 lakh sold at 30 lakh: ED cracks open Secunderabad ‘surrogacy’ racket, finds millions

ED claims newborns were procured from poor families, birth certificates forged, & childless couples charged up to Rs 30 lakh in a trafficking racket masked as surrogacy services.

District strategic to India-Myanmar road project emerges as ‘new trafficking route’ for weapons into Mizoram

Weapons sized twice this month in Lawngtlai. Security agencies on alert even as anti-junta leader denies role of Chin groups in smuggling or colluding with armed groups in Manipur.

Pakistan just got its Buddhas back from this Indian-American art smuggler

The antiques were returned during a repatriation ceremony at the Pakistan Consulate after a probe by US Homeland Security cracked the smuggling case.

A viral video brought together a mother in Pakistan, daughter in India. Thank the neighbour

Talking to ThePrint, Waliullah Maroof, Banu’s neighbour in Karachi said he has helped 40 women, who were trafficked to Pakistan, reconnect with their families.

What is draft anti-trafficking bill 2021 and how it is different from the 2018 bill

A previous draft of anti-human trafficking bill was passed in Lok Sabha in 2018 but was never introduced in Rajya Sabha.

India’s illegal pangolin trade is now on YouTube. And there are hundreds of subscribers

We went through 50 videos with over 18 lakh views, and it all pointed to one thing — India’s pangolins aren’t safe virtually either.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.