South Asia

25 years ago this week, India's army crushed an incipient Rakhine separatist force in the Andaman Islands. In western Myanmar, memories of the incident linger.

Pakistan’s choice of whether to attend the SCO summit in India will send signals to internal and external audiences on a number of levels.

Pakistan is strengthening  its controversial anti-blasphemy laws – with potentially deadly results for religious minority groups.

Social media has been abuzz with Bangladeshis opposing the making of “Faraaz,” mostly averring that it is Bangladesh’s story to tell.

Government doctors, university teachers, and other workers from ports and the power and petroleum sectors are calling on the government to lower income taxes.

While a month is not enough to judge the fledgling party, the Rastriya Swatantra Party has shown itself to be no different from the others.

Far from seeing their rights as bargaining chips for aid, Afghan women live in a reality where the mounting restrictions also affect their ability to survive.

Migration is often framed as a failure of climate adaptation. It’s better seen as an effective and sustainable response to climate change.   

The more Adani and his backers deploy nationalism to deflect and shut down questions, the more doubts will grow and linger amongst foreign investors.

A refurbished Russian aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya, will join the indigenously manufactured INS Vikrant soon to boost India’s power projection in the Indian Ocean.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority says it blocked Wikipedia because a 48-hour deadline to remove content  it said was blasphemous was ignored.

Ranil Wickremesinghe appears to be using the promise of power-sharing as a political tool to secure himself in power.