投稿者: Hannah Ellis-Petersen, south Asia correspondent
Abdul Ghani Baradar will meet with ‘legal, religious and foreign policy experts’ and notorious militantsAbdul Ghani Baradar, one of the Taliban’s top leaders, arrived in Kabul on Saturday as senior figures began talks on how they will govern Afghanista…
There is no coherent system, and those who do make it to the airport face days stuck waiting to board flightsIn a voice quivering with fear and exhaustion, Sara pleaded down the phone: “Please, get us out of here. The situation is very bad, we are trap…
The spiritual leader has mused that he may return as a woman. But his succession has turned into a political battleA couple of years ago, during a meeting of Tibetan leaders in Dharamshala in India, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was asked about h…
Debris has killed marine life and is being seen as country’s worst environmental catastropheSri Lanka is facing the worst environmental disaster in its history after a cargo ship carrying chemicals caught fire off its coast, spilling microplastics acro…
At least 170 missing four days after flash flood that wrecked two dams, with rescuers still at workFour days after a catastrophic flash flood struck a valley in the Indian Himalayas, hopes were fading of finding any more survivors in the muddy wreckage…
Analysis: Despite her popularity Aung San Suu Kyi never had leverage to curb military’s powerSince her election as Myanmar’s de facto leader in 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi’s position has always been a precarious one. For all the international celebration of…
Cases filed against nine journalists over reports that police officer fatally shot protester At least nine senior Indian journalists are facing criminal charges for reporting allegations that Delhi police fatally shot a farmer in the head during protes…
Swimming pools, cinemas and theatres to be allowed to operate at full capacity from 1 FebruaryIndia’s health minister, Harsh Vardhan, has claimed it has “successfully contained the pandemic” and “flattened its Covid-19 graph” as the country of 1.34 bil…
Police admit they have no evidence against Manuwar Faruqui, who has been held for three weeksA Muslim comedian in India has been detained for more than three weeks for allegedly insulting Hindu gods during a standup routine that he did not perform.Fell…
Director of Tandav agrees to remove scenes deemed to insult Hindu gods and office of Indian prime ministerAn Indian political drama on Amazon Prime has been forced to edit out scenes that were accused of being an “insult to Hindu gods”, the first time …
Nathuram Godse rehabilitated from traitor to patriot for many, as Gandi’s vision of secular India eroded by ruling BJP Last Sunday, in a nondescript building in the India city of Gwalior, 200 miles south of Delhi, a large crowd of men gathered. Most wo…
Judges order committee to look into grievances, but unions vow further demonstrations until laws repealedIndia’s supreme court has suspended a series of controversial new agriculture laws that had prompted hundreds of thousands of farmers to stage a mo…
Outpouring of disgust after brutal attack on endangered Gangetic dolphin in Uttar Pradesh went viralThree men in India have been arrested after they were filmed brutally beating an endangered river dolphin to death in a video that went viral.The attack…
Critics say Narendra Modi’s $3bn redevelopment of Lutyen’s central vista is ‘expensive vanity project’India’s supreme court has given approval for a new parliament building that critics have called an “expensive vanity project” for the prime minister, …
Green light for Oxford vaccine alongside domestic Covaxin hailed as ‘decisive turning point’ by PMCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has granted emergency approval to both the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and th…