There were 290 million child brides in the region, accounting for 45% of global total, children's agency of the United Nations said, calling for more efforts to end the practice.
Sri Lankan academic Bopearachchi delivered the first in a series of lectures aimed at highlighting new discoveries, methodologies in history & archaeology.
Excavation projects in Sri Lanka have come up with the ruins of medieval monastic hospitals of a scale that hasn’t yet been seen anywhere in South Asia.
The number of peace prizes and literary awards in other categories keeps growing, but what stops civil society from recognising those writing for the sake of peace?
In 'Trauma of Caste', Thenmozhi Soundarajan talks about the history of caste discrimination in the US and Equality Labs' experience of conducting the first caste survey.
Bhutan Foreign Minister Tandi Dorji said while India is ‘closest friend’, its relationship with China is based on ‘mutual respect, concern’, even as border talks with Beijing continue.
In her path breaking anthology, ‘Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia,’ Farah Ahamed delves into the female menstrual experience—a largely taboo subject.
In an interview with ThePrint, World Bank's Cecile Fruman says just 5% of South Asia's trade is within the region. More free trade agreements, seamless connectivity needed.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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