Politics

Other Backward Classes among Hindus in the state fear that the census could trigger Muslim demands for larger quotas for the community.

It signals a fair level of confidence in upcoming elections being fair and inclusive, and that he will be treated fairly by the courts.

While many Western leaders have expressed support for Israel, the balance of both public and elite opinion in Muslim-majority Southeast Asia is very much on the opposite side.

Although the referendum’s suggested change would be small, the campaign against it has grown on the back of misinformation, lies, and a deep well of racism. Supporters are preparing for it to fail.

As the cliché in digital government goes, technology is almost the least important indicator of success in the space. 

Like his predecessors, Srettha Thavisin has advanced a populist economic platform – but he'll need to do more to address his country's political and social problems.

The Chinese-owned short video app has hit a number of recent roadblocks in its bid to expand its Southeast Asian operations.

Syahrul Yasin Limpo, who resigned from his position last week, is the sixth member of President Joko Widodo's cabinet to face graft charges since 2019.

Decades of cozy ties between the church and Japan’s ruling party, revealed in the investigation of Abe’s 2022 assassination, have triggered public outrage.

Kevin McCarthy's ouster – and the rising power of the Freedom Caucus – will intensify internal divisions on China policy.

Local political maneuvering and pressing domestic issues – not geopolitics – drove most Maldivians’ voting decisions.

The crackdown on NewsClick, a small online news portal, is aimed at silencing the last bastion of independent media organizations in India.