Why does India hate Arundhati Roy? | Opinions
After they unexpectedly lost their parliamentary majority in this year’s election and were forced to enter into a coalition government, I predicted that India’s governing…
Anant Ambani’s glitzy wedding highlights India’s ‘missing middle class’ | Business and Economy News
Ten million dollars to fly Justin Bieber to India’s financial capital Mumbai for an evening’s performance. An 800-guest cruise around the Mediterranean costing $150m. A…
FDI Tumbled Across Asia In 2023, UN Reports
A sizable decline in foreign direct investment (FDI) in China and a notable decrease in M&A sales across developing Asia contributed to an 8% fall…
India court rules against dividing eateries by religion in BJP-ruled states | Religion News
Supreme Court suspends order asking restaurants and roadside carts to display owners’ names in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand states.India’s top court has ruled that restaurants…
Bangladesh calm after top court scraps job quotas | Protests News
Bangladesh has enjoyed a shaky calm amid a curfew as protesters set the government a 48-hour deadline to meet their new demands. Widespread disruption of…
Bangladesh protesters issue demands amid shaky calm | Protests News
Demonstrators insist they won’t be placated by change in the government job quota system; want curfew lifted, detainees released.Protesters in Bangladesh have issued demands amid…
What’s behind the recurring unrest in Bangladesh? | Protests News
Student protesters won’t stand down despite the top court reducing quotas for government jobs.After weeks of widespread unrest in Bangladesh, the Supreme Court has changed…
How peaceful Bangladesh quota protests morphed into nationwide unrest | Protests News
Dhaka, Bangladesh – For three days, Ahsan Habib, a private university student, was on the streets of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka protesting against what he believes…
Tajikistan’s glacial crisis: Central Asia’s melting heart | Agriculture
Will we be able to win this race against time, or must we brace ourselves for an impending disaster?As global warming escalates, Tajikistan’s melting glaciers…
Bangladesh court scraps most job quotas that caused deadly unrest: Reports | News
BREAKINGBREAKING, The top court scales back – but did not abolish – a contentious quota system that sparked deadly protests.Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has scrapped most…
Why Indians are mad for momos | Food News
Delhi, India – Sonakshi Verma, a college student, pushes her way to order a plate of momos from a corner shop on a busy market…
Slow recovery after CrowdStrike update sparks global IT outage | Technology News
Businesses and services around the world were slowly recovering after a massive technology outage wreaked havoc across the world and raised questions about the vulnerability…
India’s hidden COVID deaths: Was the toll in 2020 eight times higher? | Health News
New Delhi, India – India’s actual death toll during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world’s most populous country could be eight…
Bangladesh imposes curfew, deploys army as job quota protests continue | Protests News
The curfew comes amid a telecommunications blackout that has left the country of 170 million cut off from the world.Bangladesh has announced the imposition of…
Bangladesh protest met with violence, communications cut off | Protests
NewsFeedStudent-led protests over a job quota system in Bangladesh are met with police violence and a communications shut-down.Published On 19 Jul 202419 Jul 2024 Source…
Air India plane bound for US makes emergency landing in Russia | Aviation News
Krasnoyarsk airport says plane carrying 244 passengers and crew was forced to land due to an activated smoke detector.An Air India passenger plane flying from…
Bangladesh student protests over jobs escalate, telecoms disrupted | Protests News
Death toll expected to rise amid violence that has seen government buildings torched and telecommunications disrupted.Dozens of people have been killed in Bangladesh as nationwide…
Video: Bangladesh police detain imam leading funeral prayers | Government
NewsFeedVideo shared by an opposition party in Bangladesh is said to show police detaining an imam as he led funeral prayers for students killed during…
Violent and fatal anti-quota protests rock Bangladesh | Protests
NewsFeedProtests in Bangladesh against the reimposition of a quota system for government jobs have turned deadly. Dozens of people were killed in demonstrations calling for…
What’s behind Pakistan’s move to ban Imran Khan’s PTI? | Politics News
Islamabad, Pakistan – Just last month, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif extended an olive branch to the leadership of the country’s main opposition, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI),…