Tag: Asia

Three Indian journalists were attacked by a Hindu mob while reporting on a story in the capital, New Delhi, on Tuesday, the journalists have told Al Jazeera. Journalist Shahid Tantray and two colleagues were filming for The Caravan magazine in northeast Delhi, which was hit by religious violence in February. ...

Last August, India stripped Kashmir of its special status and imposed a communication blackout cutting off the Muslim-majority region from the outside world, but a young Kashmiri artist has continued to amplify the voices of Kashmiris through his provocative cartoons. Around the first anniversary of abrogation of Article 370, ...

Gopalan was a precocious 19-year-old student. She had already graduated early from the University of Delhi, but the trip to California marked her first time out of India, where her parents and three siblings lived.She was alone. Fortunately for Gopalan, she had chosen to study at a campus that ...

Craftsman Mohammad Zakir, who lives in a low-lying area of Karachi’s Orangi Town, does not recall the authorities ever cleaning out the storm water drain serving his neighbourhood. Thorani Goth in West District was flooded during the fourth bout of monsoon rain this season from 6-8 August. During that ...

At least three people have died in southern India's Bengaluru city after protesters clashed with police over a provocative social media post about the Prophet Muhammad, police have told Reuters news agency. Violent protests gripped parts of India's tech hub late on Tuesday after thousands took to the streets ...

The family of three missing Kashmiris have alleged the trio was killed in a staged operation by the Indian army, bringing back memories of past cases of extrajudicial killings in the Muslim-majority region. The Kashmiri family said they had identified the three from photos posted on social media after ...

Pakistan's government is lifting partial lockdown measures enforced since March as part of its coronavirus response. Even at the height of the outbreak, many people ignored social distancing rules. And while the number of confirmed infections has fallen in recent weeks, official figures may be inaccurate. Al Jazeera's Zein ...

Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg Pakistan’s anti-graft court indicted former President Asif Ali Zardari on charges of corruption, as the opposition groups accused the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan of persecution.Azam Khan, a judge of an accountability court, formally framed charges against Zardari for buying assets overseas ...

Nearly 50 people have been killed across Pakistan after three days of heavy monsoon rain and flash floods. According to Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, 19 people died in rain-related incidents in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 12 in southern Sindh province, eight in Punjab province and 10 in the ...

How will it impact Beijing’s global soft power efforts? Will the Indian government’s review hamper ties? The story so far: On July 29, India’s Ministry of Education (previously the Ministry of Human Resource Development) sent a letter to several institutions seeking information about the activities of their Confucius Institutes ...