Mary Lawlor speaks to The Wire about the situation of human rights defenders in the country, the use of repressive laws by the government and more.

A lacerating report this week revealed the US failure to reconstruct Afghanistan over two decades. Why didn’t anyone heed the inspector general’s warnings?

A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice N.S. Sanjay Gowda also issued notices to state police and the state government.

'That Facebook actively and systematically mutes anti-BJP voices in India is an open secret now,' one of the group's admins tells The Wire.

'This is a challenge, but together we can and must rise to it because there is simply no alternative to working cohesively together.'

Lining up with US over the years culminated in India signing up onto Quadrilateral Alliance. This has effectively blocked India’s strategic autonomy and undermined an independent foreign policy.

Taliban are reportedly mulling going in for the Iran model to rule Afghanistan, in which religious clergy monitor a government headed by a political entity.

A Delhi court on Wednesday discharged senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death in a luxury hotel in New Delhi.

While the MoS for foreign affairs has assured safe evacuation of three professors from Kulgam stuck at Bakhtar University in Kabul, the MEA has said it'll send flights once Kabul airport reopens.

Among other directions, the Madras High Court directed the Central government to enact a separate law at the earliest to give statutory status to CBI.