Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested a businessman, Ghulam Raza, from his residence at the industrial-cum-steel township of Durgapur in West Burdwan district of West Bengal after conducting a raid and search operation.The main charge against Raza is his involvement in human trafficking, especially of women.Raza, an original resident of Muzaffarpur in Bihar, shifted to Durgapur along with his wife and two sons three years ago and settled there. He pur…
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Dhaka, July 18 (IANS) As Bangladesh grapples with the persistent challenge of human trafficking, women and girls remain disproportionately vulnerable, with gender inequality, child marriage, limited educational opportunities, and labour market discrimination exposing them to greater risks of exploitation, a report has stated. Human rights advocates have called for greater investment in girls’ education, expanded economic opportunities for women, and stronger community-based protection mechanisms…
Brussels, July 18 (IANS) India’s cooperation with international agencies in combating transnational crime is rooted in its commitments under international law. After ratifying the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) and its three protocols in 2011, New Delhi accepted obligations to tackle human trafficking, migrant smuggling, and the illicit manufacture and trafficking of firearms. The commitment reflects New Delhi’s consistent doctrine of treating human tra…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration in West Bengal and Assam has led the touts to revise their strategy.Touts are already identifying illegal immigrants present in these two states and are trying to quickly shift them to other parts of the country, security officials have learnt.An official said that identifying and deporting illegal immigrants is a massive exercise. Years of neglect have allowed the problem to grow, resulting in a large number of illegal immig…
Mangaluru, July 14 (IANS) Karnataka’s Mangaluru City Police have arrested two alleged human trafficking agents and secured the arrest of a key kingpin in Kolkata in connection with a racket that allegedly smuggled illegal Bangladeshi nationals into India and facilitated their employment in coastal Karnataka, the official statement said on Tuesday. The breakthrough comes days after the police detained several illegal Bangladeshi immigrants from construction sites in Kuntikana and Kodial during a…
Patna, July 8 (IANS) Security agencies have arrested a Bangladeshi national near the India-Nepal border in Bihar’s East Champaran district during a joint operation conducted by the district police and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).The arrest was made near the Maitri Bridge at Custom Chowk under the Haraiya police station area, where the suspect was allegedly attempting to cross into Nepal.According to the police, security personnel were conducting routine surveillance and document verification a…
New Delhi, Jul 7 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted extensive searches at six locations in three northern states on Tuesday as part of its ongoing probe into a major Cambodia-linked human trafficking and cyber slavery racket, the central probe agency officials said. The operation targeted premises connected to associates and supporters of the accused in the case.The raids were carried out in four districts of Bihar — Gopalganj, Siwan, Saran, and East Champaran — besides o…
Washington, June 26 (IANS) US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that his department was expanding efforts to locate 450,000 migrant children he said were unaccounted for after being released to sponsors during the previous administration, adding that authorities had so far traced 147,000 of them.Testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Mullin described the effort to locate vulnerable migrant children as the Department of Homeland Security’s to…
Washington, June 13 (IANS) South Korea and dozens of UN member states have launched an informal group aimed at addressing technology-facilitated trafficking in persons on Friday, as Seoul has stepped up diplomatic efforts to address the issue following online scams that affected South Koreans in Cambodia last year.South Korea’s mission to the U.N. and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime held an event to launch the “Group of Friends for Combating Technology-facilitated Trafficking in Persons.”Seou…
Bhopal, June 9 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday extended the ‘Shaurya Dal’ initiative for five years, from 2026–27 to 2030–31, after the women-led network grew into a 2.25 million-strong force credited with preventing crimes and shifting empowerment “from paperwork to action.” Started in 2013 across six districts, the dal now operates in every district of the state. The Department of Women and Child Development said the extension recognises how the initiative has turne…