投稿者: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Highly contagious virus, which spreads from animals to humans, has a high fatality rate and there is no vaccine Airports across Asia have been put on high alert after India confirmed two cases of the deadly Nipah virus in the state of West Bengal over …
The 38-year-old appeared in court in Delhi by video link and will now face trial over the alleged murder of the 24-year-old QueenslanderAn Indian court has approved the extradition of Rajwinder Singh, the man accused of murdering Toyah Cordingley on a …
Prime minister cuts an increasingly isolated figure – and his dramatic dissolution of parliament is a very risky moveImran Khan’s dramatic move to dissolve Pakistan’s parliament on Sunday morning, ahead of a vote that almost certainly would have remove…
One of Bollywood’s most bankable actors has written a revolutionary pregnancy book that lifts the lid on libido, caesareans and more. She discusses power, pay and the reality behind the glamourDays after giving birth to her first child – an emergency c…
Celebrity interventions inflame sentiments in India as police investigate pro-farmers toolkitCounter-protesters in Delhi have burned effigies of the Swedish environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg after she tweeted support for India’s protesting farmer…
Save the Children predicts worst rise in child marriage rates in 25 years as a result of pandemicUp to 2.5 million more girls around the world are at risk of being forced into child marriage over the next five years as a result of the impact of Covid-1…
Our South Asia correspondent on how coronavirus has affected a country’s livelihoods, faith and democracyPacing through the labyrinth of old Delhi, a place where life usually leaks out of every crack, I found myself straining my ears for the familiar s…
Reported video confessions could be used as evidence in international criminal courtTwo Myanmar soldiers have detailed a campaign of blanket killings, rape and mass burials of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state in video testimony that could be used as e…
Cases reach 3.85m as expert claims emphasis on recovery rates fuels public apathyCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia reported a record daily rise of 83,883 coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking its total to 3.85 milli…
The alleged misuse of the government fund has brought out tales of lavish spending, mass sackings and a long search for truthOriginally 1MDB – an abbreviation of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (which means limited) – was nothing more than a Malaysian sta…
Petitions filed in court to block work on first Hindu temple in capital since Pakistan’s creationThe controversial construction of the first Hindu temple in Pakistan’s capital has been halted after it was challenged in the courts.Plans for the Shri Kri…
Indian health ministry reports 9,887 new cases; China confirms three new cases; Russia’s death toll continues to riseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has overtaken Italy as the sixth worst-affected countr…
Until India accepts brutality begets brutality, plague of sexual violence will go onIt was a grisly end to a story that has been a stain on India for almost eight years. The hanging on Friday morning of the four men who carried out the 2012 gang-rape a…
Violence in India’s capital has left more than 40 dead and hundreds injured after a Hindu nationalist rampage, stoked by the rhetoric of Narendra Modi’s populist governmentHe lay in a bloodied ball on the floor, but the baton blows kept on coming. As t…
Hospitals, banks and travel companies to get broadband after five-month shutdownInternet is to be partially restored in Kashmir after an unprecedented five-month blackout, but only for institutions providing “essential services”, while social media sit…