A human trafficking survivor, Trisha Roy, shared with My Kolkata her own experience with the Swayam Siddha initiative for the last three years. “I was kidnapped by a racket in 2019 and trafficke...

A school at the southernmost tip of West Bengal had 1,280 students in March 2020, just before the nationwide Covid curbs were imposed. When offline classes finally resumed in February this year, the ...

Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a mentally disabled Indian-origin Malaysian man found guilty of drug trafficking, was executed in Singapore on Wednesday, his family said, after a court dismissed a last-ditc...

It is unusual to find burglary and robbery more heinous than giving children liquor or drugs, employing them for begging, and selling or procuring them, although not for trafficking or prostitution. Y...

Mobile Premier League (MPL), one of the world’s largest mobile eSports and skill gaming platforms, has onboarded what is being billed as the world’s first anti-trafficking game called MISS...

The Bengal government has decided to form a special forest squad to prevent wildlife crimes including poaching and trafficking of wildlife in north Bengal following a spate of recoveries of animal par...

The state forest department intercepted seven elephants on trucks from  near the Teesta bridge on the outskirts of Jalpaiguri town on Tuesday. The animals were found from  six trucks report...

One teenager was told to get into a school meant only for “victims of trafficking”. Another, once trafficked by a classmate, is scared of making new friends. Many trafficking survivors ha...

A woman was rescued from a brothel in Pune in 2009 at the age of 15. The case dragged on for close to a decade but resulted in the acquittal of the accused in 2018. Her inability to visit the Pune cou...

An Indian girl, trafficked to Bangladesh and recovered by the police of that country, was repatriated on Tuesday after intervention by Calcutta High Court which asked the Centre for help to bring the ...