In India, more than 200 women a year suffer disfiguring acid attacks. Acid is most commonly used as a weapon in gender-based attacks stemming from rejection of sexual advances or proposals of marriage and...
Across India, people are panicking after the government declared all 500 and 1,000 rupee bills will be worthless by the end of the year. Banks are short on cash and sporadic violence has broken...
India’s cabinet has unveiled a draft law which would ban commercial surrogacy. Estimates put the value of the practice in the country known as the “surrogacy hub” of the world at $2 billion. The...
In India, the soft drink giant Coca-Cola has decided to suspend bottling operations at three units located in three different states of the country. One of these units, in the city of Kaladera in...
Sunday is Valentine’s Day and many mark the occasion with romantic cliches and gifts of chocolate. But in India, women’s rights groups are using the holiday to campaign against gender-based violence under the banner...
In India, six hunger strikers have been hospitalized and protests are growing across the country after an expelled Dalit graduate student committed suicide in the southern city of Hyderabad. FSRN’s Jasvinder Sehgal reports. Download...
Severe flooding has affected hundreds of thousands across Bangladesh and Myanmar, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In India, at least 150 people are dead and more than a...
All photos by Jasvinder Sehgal. Read/hear his accompanying report. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
India’s cabinet is considering amending the country’s child labor law to allow children younger than 14 to work in their family businesses and farms after school hours and during holidays. To take effect, the...
The plights of farmers in India is drawing global attention after a recent spate of suicides. More than a quarter-of-a-million farmers have killed themselves in the past two decades, their deaths often linked to...
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