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Sunday, July 27, 2025
TopicSouth Asia

Topic: South Asia

Malaysian mobile service provider’s plan to expand to India fades

Axiata Group’s Asia dream fades as rivals bid for its overseas units.

New York Times reporter who had dissed Delhi as unlivable gets it wrong again

For the second time in 4 months, The New York Times has issued corrections for stories reported by Gardiner Harris.

India is the 12th worst country for gender disparity in labour force

India is the only non-Islamic country in the top 20, but among its South Asian neighbours, everyone except Pakistan performs better.

How India’s impressive electrification compares with South Asian nations

Modi’s flagship Saubhagya scheme is completing a decade of intense efforts started with Manmohan Singh’s aggressive policies.

India’s answer to Chinese Belt & Road Initiative should be a new road map for South Asia

While New Delhi sees the sense of promoting regional connectivity, it has serious strategic concerns about working with China on its eastern border.

Modi govt beats China in high-stakes battle over dam in Nepal

After India’s refusal to buy hydropower from a Chinese project in Nepal, the Chinese company leading the project scrapped it.

There’s a lot to Pakistan beyond coups and fundamentalists. Raza Rumi chronicles it

Raza Rumi’s book will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the artistic and cultural landscape of Pakistan.

Cultural diversity can drive economies. Here are lessons from India and South Asia

India may be in disagreement with China over historical borders, but it still shares with it local languages and Buddhist religious minorities.

At South Asia Conclave, a discussion on the Indian brand of ideology in divided times

The first session at South Asia Conclave 2018 saw panellists discuss the upcoming book, ‘Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India’.

New Delhi conclave to dissect the promise of South Asia

The conclave organised by Oxford University Press aims to introduce new ideas on modern South Asia to the larger public.

On Camera

Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.