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South and central Asia

May 2025

  • array of ancient gems

    India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains

  • Hailstorm in Paris

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Deadly storms in India and huge hailstones in Paris

  • A group of women stand in a staggered line in a hotel foyer, most wearing saris

    From Sri Lanka to Tanzania: the pioneering hotels run entirely by women

  • A close up of paramilitary soldier standing guard in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.

    Thousands detained, homes blown up: Kashmiris tell of crackdown ‘living hell’

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India

  • MPs urge David Lammy to intervene as British man remains in jail in India

April 2025

  • A volunteer sprays water on a passerby's face to cool him off on an unusually hot April day in Karachi, Pakistan

    India and Pakistan already sweltering in ‘new normal’ heatwave conditions

  • Mirza Waheed

    A massacre has reignited the forever war between India and Pakistan – once more, Kashmiri voices are missing

    Mirza Waheed
  • A boat on the Indus River near the Lansdowne Bridge in Sukkur, in Pakistan’s Sindh province.

    ‘India can starve us’: farmers in Pakistan decry suspension of crucial water treaty

  • Two red baseball caps with the words 'Make America great again' on them sit on a table. A man's folded hands can be seen behind them.

    Trump’s first 100 days supercharged a global ‘freefall of rights’, says Amnesty

  • ‘Pakistan is the root of the problem’: Kashmir attack stokes anger in India

  • Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: early summer heat likely in US and western Europe

  • Cosmic metros, UFO circus tops and a 3,000C sun gun: the mesmerising architecture of Tashkent

  • India test-fires missiles as tensions rise with Pakistan after Kashmir attack

  • India and Pakistan trade gunfire across Kashmir border after deadly attack

  • The domestic pressures shaping India’s response to Kashmir attacks

  • Pakistan and India exchange fire as UN calls for ‘maximum restraint’

  • Tensions escalate between India and Pakistan after Kashmir attack – video

  • How has India reacted to attack in Kashmir and why are tensions in region so high?

  • India and Pakistan closer to conflict over Kashmir attack as tit-for-tat moves mount

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