South Asia

Asia’s ultra-right consensus: ‘Liberal politics, sold by western funded NGOs, isn’t the answer’

The march of the Ultra-Right in the Global South continues on, but unlike their Global North counterparts like Trump, Le Penn & Farage, as bleak as the future may...

Pakistani students march for ‘azadi’

Taking a cue from their JNU counterparts, Pakistani students are to protest the abysmal condition of higher education

New documentary reveals scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya

An ethnic Rakhine man holds homemade weapons as he...

Build Peace and Friendship on the Foundation of Kartarpur

It was heartening to hear NarendraModi praise Imran Khan,...

What to do with ‘illegal immigrants’ after they serve their sentence?

In the absence of repatriation treaty with Bangladesh, officials are clueless about the status of illegal immigrants, who are declared so by courts, once they served their sentence.

The Plight Of The ‘Nowhere People’ — Of Pain, Labour and Humiliation

Imprisoned by barbed wire, lacking basic amenities and rights, people trapped within the enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border lead wretched lives, writes filmmaker Aparna Sen

Promoting inter-faith harmony: Pakistan to reopen, restore 400 Hindu temples

The temples had earlier been converted to madrasas, stores and restaurants

‘Indians Less Charitable Than Asian Counterparts’

 Mumbai: India ranked 82nd among 128 countries for generosity...

The lives of Pakistani Hindus, a shrinking minority

Religious persecution of minorities is a harsh reality of today’s world not only limited to the Indian sub-continent. History has been witness to religious persecution of minorities all over the world and while people continue to cling on to such fascist ideologies, minorities in every region will continue to bear the brunt of this malice.

The game of hits and misses: crackdown on “illegal” immigrants

With the Karnataka police on a politically driven “mission” to detain “illegal immigrants” the exercise is in all likelihood going to determine into an anti-Bengali or anti-outsider statement, allowing regional parochialism to raise its ugly head, even as citizens get mindlessly targeted

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Delhi: Ayaan Saifi, a 19-year old, stabbed to death in nation’s capital on April 30

Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”