カテゴリー: South and Central Asia
Patriotic myths are exploded in a vivid pageturner, which considers the Company as a forerunner of modern multinationals, ‘too big to fail’About a century ago, a series of giant murals was unveiled in the Palace of Westminster depicting the “Building o…
Joshua Boyle, charged with sexual assault, tells court estranged wife Caitlan Coleman was unfit to parent their four childrenThe Canadian man who spent five years held hostage in Afghanistan with his American wife has admitted striking her with a broom…
Trump’s anti-interventionist instincts likely to come to the fore in flashpoint countriesTrump ousts top adviser John Bolton: ‘I disagreed strongly with him’Donald Trump’s abrupt dismissal of John Bolton, his national security adviser, may reflect the …
Archbishop says sorry ‘in the name of Christ’ over killing of 379 unarmed protesters in 1919The archbishop of Canterbury has apologised “in the name of Christ” for the 1919 massacre at Amritsar in India, when hundreds of people were shot dead by Britis…
Women routinely face sexual assault and exploitation in factories, many of which supply western brands. A grassroots movement is helping victims to seek justice Dolly Akhtar was only 16 when she started work in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, s…
Taliban says Trump sabotaged ‘finalised’ Afghanistan dealExperts doubt Kabul attack was real reason for cancellationDonald Trump has declared talks between the US and the Taliban “dead” after he called off a Camp David meeting over the weekend, trigger…
Dr Vatwani has spent three decades reuniting patients with mental health problems with their familiesTo the horror of the watching doctors, a young man on a Mumbai street picked up a broken coconut shell, scooped up dirty gutter water with it, and dran…
Threat comes after controversial project in border state that forced 33 million residents to prove their heritageIndia’s home affairs minister has said his government “will not allow a single illegal immigrant to stay” amid outcry over a citizenship re…
Efforts are underway to establish contact, days after communications were lost during failed landingThe lander module from India’s moon mission has been located on the lunar surface, the day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts ar…
President says he cancelled secret peace talks with insurgents and the Afghan president after Kabul attack killed 12 including US soldierDonald Trump has said that he cancelled secret peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders, after the insurgent …
Mangayamma Yaramati and babies in good health, say doctors in Andhra PradeshA 73-year-old woman in southern India who has given birth to healthy twin girls described motherhood as “the happiest time of my life”.The babies were delivered through caesare…
Trial testimony wraps up in case of Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, who married in 2011 and were kidnapped in AfghanistanA Canadian man once held hostage with his American wife in Afghanistan denied assaulting her following their release, in trial te…
Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar face prospect of further isolation as government orders operators to shut down services Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in refugee camps in Bangladesh face a communications blackout after the gov…
Second attack near diplomatic area underlines warnings US-Taliban deal is moving too quicklyA Taliban suicide car bombing in Kabul has killed a US service member, a Romanian soldier and at least 10 Afghan civilians in a busy diplomatic area that includ…
A film charting Pat Farmer’s 4,600km dash across India piles on the platitudes, reducing an amazing odyssey to nippy travelogueThe Indian ascetic tradition can add another name to its ranks: former Australian parliamentary secretary and ultra-marathon …