カテゴリー: South and Central Asia
Application seeks punishment for culprits, compensation for victims and end to attacksMyanmar is to face accusations of genocide at the UN’s highest court over its treatment of Rohingya Muslims.A 46-page application has been submitted to the internatio…
Twelve reported dead in India and eight in Bangladesh as storm uproots trees and floods croplandsTwenty people have died and more than two million others have spent a night huddled in storm shelters after Cyclone Bulbul hit the coasts of India and Ban…
India’s supreme court has ruled that a Hindu temple can be built on the country’s most hotly contested religious site, ending a legal dispute that has run for decades between Hindus and Muslims.The restoration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya was a key ple…
Supreme court says five acres where mosque was torn down in 1992 should become site of Hindu temple, with Muslims given other landThe Indian supreme court has ruled that India’s most hotly contested piece of religious land rightfully belongs to Hindus,…
Supreme court says five acres where mosque was torn down in 1992 should become site of Hindu temple, with Muslims given other landThe Indian supreme court has ruled that India’s most hotly contested piece of religious land rightfully belongs to Hindus,…
Supreme court decides fates of holy site where mosque was torn down by Hindu hardliners in 1992India’s supreme court has ruled on the disputed religious site of Ayodhya – deciding the case in favour of Hindus, with alternate land to be provided for Mus…
Warning over ‘divisive tactics’ after messages claim party is ‘anti-India’ and ‘anti-Hindu’British Hindus are being targeted by WhatsApp messages urging them to vote against Labour in the general election, accusing the party of being “anti-India” and “…
British Indian Aatish Taseer believes move is intended as a warning to other writersA British Indian author and journalist has been stripped of his Indian citizenship after he wrote an article criticising the regime of the country’s prime minister, Nar…
India’s climate movements are growing, but a unique political deadlock in the capital is creating a destructive inertiaFly out of Delhi and you can see it: a band of grey smog, so thick it blots out the sun. Tune in carefully and you’ll hear it, too: a…
Poor north Indian farmers think they are scapegoats for a wider problemThe pounding beats of bhangra music blare out of Satish’s tractor as it roars across the charred, black earth of his farm. Fresh seeds are scattered in its wake. Yet hanging thick i…
Source claims government plans secret vaccinations after 12 children fall prey to diseaseOfficials in Pakistan have been accused of covering up an outbreak of the most dangerous strain of polio and planning a covert vaccination programme to contain the…
Indian city suffering record levels of poor air quality, partly caused by stubble burningThe illegal burning of crop stubble by farmers in India, one of the biggest causes of the record-breaking pollution that has enveloped Delhi over the past week, is…
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independenceIn 1971, during the nine-month war that gave Bangladesh its independence from then West Pakistan, four sister…
Journalists face blanked-out articles, pulled funding and channel shutdown if they dare to criticise the state For almost five years, Talat Hussain, a well-known Pakistani journalist, hosted a popular current affairs talk show on Geo TV, openly discuss…
Scott Morrison says 15-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership would be ‘bigger and better’ with India in itAustralia will sign on to a major free-trade deal involving 15 countries from the Asia-Pacific region, albeit one diminished by Indi…