South and central Asia
Star wars: Sri Lanka’s powerful astrologers split over auspicious dates
Group employed by government divided for first time over best date for new year rituals
Staff and agencies in Colombo
18, Mar, 2024 @2:21 PM
Global eradication of polio ‘tantalisingly close’ with UK urged to keep up funding
After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Shaoni Bhattacharya
16, Mar, 2024 @1:00 PM
Yodha review – bone-crunching patriotism on display in adrenaline-fuelled thriller
Sidharth Malhotra fights like a machine in an Indian action film cut from similar cloth as the jingoistic Rambo series
Catherine Bray
16, Mar, 2024 @9:50 AM
Narendra Modi’s BJP given £570m under scheme allowing anonymous donations
Party of Indian prime minister was by far biggest beneficiary of electoral bonds, which were struck down as unconstitutional
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
15, Mar, 2024 @1:16 PM
Unfair & Lovely: the Bollywood film shining a light on dark-skin discrimination
As an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against children with darker complexions
Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi
15, Mar, 2024 @5:00 AM
India blocks access to documentary about death of Sikh activist in Canada
CBC aired an investigation into the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose killing the Canadian government suspects India was behind
Leyland Cecco in Toronto
14, Mar, 2024 @4:02 PM
India gets its own HPV vaccine to stop 70,000 women dying of cervical cancer a year
It has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country’s second-biggest cause of cancer deaths among women
Sarah Johnson in Pune
12, Mar, 2024 @9:00 AM
No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages
As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no future
Aishwarya Mohanty in Udaykani, Odisha
11, Mar, 2024 @10:44 AM
Weather tracker: Much of southern Australia on heatwave alert
Adelaide expected to be worst affected with average temperatures forecast to be up by 10C
Faye Hulton and James Parrish for MetDesk
08, Mar, 2024 @9:30 AM
Narendra Modi visits Kashmir for first time since state’s autonomy stripped
Thousands of police mobilised for Srinagar rally seen as Modi’s campaign event for elections
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
07, Mar, 2024 @11:12 AM
‘He had no idea he was being sent to a war zone’: the Indian and Nepali men on frontlines in Ukraine
Signing up for jobs in Russia, Germany or Dubai, young men have been ‘made to join the Russian military’, their families say
Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi and Gaurav Pokharel in Kathmandu
07, Mar, 2024 @5:00 AM
‘Big bullies’: Maldives turns away from India as China woos it with aid
Defence deal signed by islands’ pro-Beijing president has ignited a row with powerful neighbour and benefactor
Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent
07, Mar, 2024 @1:00 AM
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