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Monday, April 6, 2026
TopicSouth Asia

Topic: South Asia

Affordable housing crisis affecting Asia’s growth. ‘Political rewards from fixing it may be massive’

Global media spotlights South Asia, focusing on ‘shortage of decent and affordable housing’, India’s LPG deal and coroner’s findings in Zubeen Garg death case.

China is excluding India from its South Asia outreach. New Delhi’s being framed as volatile

To Chinese commentators, India has unresolved colonial-era borders, a rigid territorial outlook, pressures from smaller neighbours, and persistent security anxieties.

The story of India’s forgotten Afghans — horse-traders, mercenaries, kings

The relationship between Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent was built over five centuries by people who were entrepreneurial, mobile, literate, and commercially connected.

Bengaluru’s MAP Academy is now Impart—interactive timelines, more resources on regional art

With the introduction of two new sections — Journeys and Timelines — Impart seeks to offer more collaborative research and multimedia storytelling on its platform.

Op Sindoor, Gen-Z stir & rise of a dictator. 2025 saw old fault lines & new anger collide in South Asia

South Asia had a tumultuous year as old fault-lines & new anger collided. Borders burned, governments fell and alliances shifted.

SubscriberWrites: Neighbourhood First in a Fragmented South Asia—India’s Strategic Test-Case

The question is no longer whether India is the region’s natural anchor, but whether it can still act as one in a neighbourhood that has become more fragmented, more transactional, and far more contested.

India has a geopolitical trilemma with Afghanistan. It’s not a good vs evil choice

If India boycotts Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and possibly even Russia will take its place. The harsh reality of geopolitics is that openings are short-lived.

Bangladesh’s first woman director in Oscar race. ‘Wanted characters who help you break barriers’

Leesa Gazi’s film ‘Barir Naam Shahana’ is in many ways her own story — a divorcee who left Bangladesh to build a life in England.

Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and Nepali economists call for reforms—in one voice

The gap between South East Asia and South Asia has ‘widened enormously’, the statement noted. The latter would do well to take a leaf from the former’s book.

Modi govt’s ‘unusual intervention’ as Tata Group battles ‘fires’ & why India will never go the Nepal way

Global media also looks at the death of Assam's first 'true rockstar' Zubeen Garg, and the phenomenon that he was.

On Camera

Acts of God cases are Acts of State now. The courts are not convinced

The 'superior force' striking your contract is less likely to be a storm or a war. It is most possibly the stroke of a regulator's pen.

Saudi Arabia raises price of main oil grade to Asia to a record high premium

Saudi Aramco will increase flagship Arab Light crude prices for May sales to a premium of $19.50 over regional benchmarks for refiners in Asia, still less than what traders anticipated.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.