Tag: Asia

A prominent rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir has called India's communications blackout following the scrapping of the disputed region's semi-autonomy last year "collective punishment" and urged the international community to question New Delhi over what it calls "digital apartheid". The Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) in its 125-page ...

With the privilege of being the region’s largest economy by far comes the power to make a difference. Covid-19 has presented India with an unprecedented opportunity to help restructure its economy and reshape regional cooperation and integration towards a more sustainable path. In a just-released report from the Centre ...

On August 5, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. This fulfilled the orders of India's Supreme Court, which last November awarded a victory to those who have long been campaigning to build a temple there, in place ...

China has been administering an experimental coronavirus vaccine on essential workers since July, one of the country’s top health officials has revealed. Medical staff and border inspection officials are among the key workers to have received the vaccine candidate, said the director of China’s National Health Commission Zheng Zhongwei. ...

It is said that the law is written on the sleeves of the judges, but what if the judges go sleeveless to show their muscles? These days in Pakistan if you are an "alleged contemner" in a case of contempt of court then your abduction a day before your ...

The Taliban chief has finalised a negotiating team that is to have decision-making powers in upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations, a top Taliban negotiator told The Associated Press. Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada hand-picked the 20-member team, 13 of whom comprise about half of the Taliban's leadership council, lead Taliban negotiator Sher Mohammad ...

Uttarakhand, India - On a cloudy summer afternoon in the Shivalik forest, Jumman is sprawled on a charpoy, enjoying the monsoon breeze. His grandchildren have taken the cattle to graze in the forest, while his sons have moved up to the mountains near Uttarkashi, hoping to escape the heat. ...

A health worker arrives at a mobile Covid-19 testing van in New Delhi, Aug. 16. Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg We're tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response. Sign up here for our daily newsletter on what you need to know.India’s coronavirus infections crossed ...

Pakistan has issued sweeping financial sanctions against Afghanistan's Taliban, just as the rebel group is in the middle of a United States-led peace process in the neighbouring country. The orders, which were made public late on Friday, identified dozens of individuals, including the Taliban's chief peace negotiator Mullah Abdul ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lashed out at the US on Friday for its “completely unreasonable” demand to reimpose sanctions on Iran.On Thursday, the US formally asked the UN to trigger the “snapback”, a mechanism under the 2015 nuclear accord that allows a participant to restore pre-2015 sanctions on ...