カテゴリー: South and Central Asia
Residents and politicians say authorities failed to close illegal factory that caused a fatal explosion in 2017 An explosion at a fireworks factory in northern India has killed at least 22 people and caused the building to catch fire and collapse, offi…
Deaths over past 30 days follow Indian government’s decision to strip region of autonomyFive civilians have died in Indian Kashmir, including an 18-year-old man, officials confirmed, one month after Delhi’s decision to revoke the region’s special statu…
Nine ambassadors condemn US approach to negotiationsLetter says full withdrawal must come ‘only after real peace’The majority of America’s ambassadors to Afghanistan since the removal of the Taliban government have condemned the US approach to negotiat…
Insurgent group claims responsibility for explosion that killed at least 16 as US and Taliban agree deal ‘in principle’The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a large explosion in the Afghan capital, just hours after a US envoy briefed the Afghan go…
Prime minister backs Peter Dutton, saying he cannot ‘in good conscience’ allow family that had settled in Biloela to stayThe prime minister says he cannot “in good conscience” allow a Tamil couple and their Australian-born children facing deportation t…
Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy for peace in Afghanistan, says agreement would reduce violence and allow ‘intra-Afghan’ talksUS and Taliban negotiators are close to an agreement that would reduce fighting and allow full peace talks among Afghans, a top …
Rights groups warn of possible humanitarian crisis as those left off list face statelessness and detentionAlmost 2 million people in north-east India face the threat of statelessness and detention after they were excluded from an official list designed…
The Easter Sunday terrorist attacks all but destroyed the island’s tourism industry. In the southern city of Galle, locals now seek their own Trump or ModiAsiri Kumara stands on Koggala Beach with a fishing rod in his hand forlornly staring at the Indi…
At least 36 insurgents killed in assault that comes as US continues talks with the group on ending America’s longest warAt least three civilians and 36 Taliban fighters have been killed after the militant group launched a “massive” attack on Kunduz, on…
People who cannot prove links to region from before 1971 face being sent to detention campsMillions of people in north-eastern India could lose their citizenship on Saturday in what could become the biggest exercise in forced statelessness in living me…
Delhi-based Gulistan TV’s ticker is one of the only ways left to send messages home to troubled regionStaff at Gulistan TV have lost count of how many messages have flooded in over recent weeks. Every day, texts from viewers are broadcast across a bann…
Amnesty says activists have been attacked and killed with impunity, with their plight ‘largely ignored’ at home and abroadHuman rights defenders in Afghanistan are suffering relentless attacks, intimidation and harassment amid escalating violence, Amne…
Kevin P Joseph was killed after he applied to register his marriage to Neenu Chacko from a higher casteA court in Kerala has sentenced 10 men to life in prison for the killing of a Christian from India’s lowest dalit caste who wanted to marry a woman f…
As the Indian government loosens its prescription opioid laws after decades of lobbying by palliative care advocates, the cash-fed healthcare system is ripe for misuseIn the crowded waiting room of Dr Sunil Sagar’s clinic, in the working-class neighbor…
Retailer’s target is part of aim to use 100% sustainable cotton in all product categoriesPrimark has announced plans to improve its sustainability credentials by training 160,000 cotton farmers in India, Pakistan and China in environmentally friendly f…