カテゴリー: South and Central Asia
Young people in the global south have been tackling the climate crisis for years. They should be celebrated tooRidhima Pandey was just nine years old in 2017 when she filed a lawsuit against the Indian government for failing to take action against clim…
Imran Khan will use UN address to highlight alleged atrocities carried out by Indian armyPakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, is to follow a speech by his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, at the United Nations general assembly by accusing him of be…
The asylum seeker family being held on Christmas Island will not be able to be deported to Sri Lanka until court application is heardTwo Tamil asylum seekers and their Australian-born daughters will stay in Australia for at least one more day as their …
Blasts at election rally and in central Kabul follow collapse of US-Taliban peace talksTaliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts Tuesday – one at a campaign rally for the president and the other in Kabul – …
20th international Indian film academy awards will be held in Mumbai this weekThe international Indian film academy awards – known as the Bollywood Oscars – are to be held in India for the first time in their history this week.Mumbai will host the 20th…
An IPCC report says two-thirds of glaciers on the largest ice sheet after the Arctic and Antarctic are set to disappear in 80 yearsMany moons ago in Tibet, the Second Buddha transformed a fierce nyen (a malevolent mountain demon) into a neri (the holie…
Insurgent group visits Moscow days after after Donald Trump declares US negotiations with Afghan group ‘dead’A Taliban delegation has held talks with Russian officials in Moscow after US negotiations with the Afghan insurgents collapsed, the Russian f…
Death of son of the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was reported but not confirmed in JulyDonald Trump confirmed on Saturday that the US has killed Hamza bin Laden, a son of the former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. R…
Kolkata, one of Asia’s great melting pots, is the last place on Earth where rickshaw wallahs still haul people and goods through narrow lanes. With just hundreds left, Palani Mohan’s images capture them as they disappear. Almost all of the pullers orig…
Farmland was swapped for concrete houses, a private school has thrived – but the village still doesn’t even have a nameI went to a school in Pakistan’s Punjab province called government primary school, Chak 2/4-L. Chak means village; 2/4-L is the name …
Campaign accused of ignoring colonial abuses when setting out maritime industries’ futureHistorians and academics have labelled a new government campaign “tone deaf” and “historically illiterate” for using images of ships used for slavery and colonisat…
Kashmir is under siege. Up to 10,000 people have been victims of enforced disappearance, including my son JavaidThe Eid this year was like no other. We could not even offer the obligatory sacrifice because of the total siege by India of Kashmir.When my…
Alleged human rights violations cast a pall over recognition of Indian prime minister’s flagship sanitation and hygiene initiativeThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is facing a barrage of criticism from prominent lawyers, human rights activists and …
Civilians in the Srinagar suburb of Anchar say they are engaged in a fight for existencePrayers had barely finished when the teargas was fired and a trail of smoke arched in the sky. Security forces had launched another assault on Anchar, the only majo…
The annual Infra Jatra festival, named after the god of rain and heaven, is celebrated by worshipping, singing, dancing and feasting in Kathmandu valley Continue reading…