The horrors at US detention centres for migrant children are haunting even some Border Patrol agents

In the frontline of Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, some agents have been forced to accept conditions in holding camps as normal, even appropriate.

Ginger Thompson, ProPublica

· Jul 21, 2019 · 01:30 pm

How seven displaced families with Rs 1,500 built Latoo, a border village in Jammu and Kashmir

Dislocated and displaced several times after Partition, the residents of Latoo have learned an invaluable lesson: to survive you need to be self-reliant.

Asmita Bakshi

· Dec 03, 2018 · 11:30 am

How passports evolved to help governments regulate the movement of people

In the backdrop of the US reportedly denying passports to citizens living near the Mexico border, a lesson in history.

John Torpey, The Conversation

· Sep 14, 2018 · 11:30 pm

The curious case of pillar 81: Why Manipur is suddenly debating where its border with Myanmar falls

Senior official claims a pillar demarcating the boundary has been moved inside Indian territory, but government says it hasn’t. What’s the reality?

Arunabh Saikia

· Jul 14, 2018 · 09:00 am

On the fence: Fluid and ever changing, the Indo-Bangladesh border defies the idea of a neat boundary

The BJP has made the completion of the border fence a test of its strength.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Jan 20, 2018 · 07:30 am

Watch: Nepali and Indian villages are caught in a tussle over caterpillar fungus

The yarsagumba, which grows in the high Himalayas, is used in traditional medicine, especially as an aphrodisiac.

Omair Ahmad

· Jun 16, 2017 · 09:30 pm

Three times when favourable ICJ verdicts could not save the lives of people on death row

India still has some way to go before it saves Kulbhushan Jadhav.

Sagar Godbole

· May 12, 2017 · 10:30 am

How the British Raj in India brightened the palette of artist JMW Turner

Turner’s striking use of Indian yellow in his paintings was made possible by new colours from across the empire, says Tate Britain curator David Blayney Brown.

Mridula Chari

· Jan 24, 2017 · 11:30 am

Three charts show how it is always a state of perpetual war on the Indo-Pak border

Reports suggest Indo-Pak relations have never been worse, but people on either side of the LoC – and indeed, the international border – live in an uneasy truce.

Nishita Jha

· Nov 08, 2016 · 05:30 pm

For Mexican towns attacked by a cartel, there are few answers and no justice

A new report finds that the Mexican government failed to stop a door-to-door campaign of killing that went on for weeks along the US border.

Ginger Thompson and Alejandra Xanic, ProPublica

· Oct 12, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Stranded in India during the 1965 war: How I made friends among ‘enemies’

India and Pakistan were locked in combat in Kashmir at the time, and many Indians avoided the writer like the plague.

Asif Noorani

· Sep 08, 2016 · 06:30 pm

Border with Bangladesh will be sealed in two years, says Sarbananda Sonowal

Assam’s next chief minister announced the move to put an end to cross-border infiltration.

Scroll Staff

· May 21, 2016 · 02:55 pm