EXPLAINER
‘A calamity’: Why is a record heatwave sweeping South Asia?
Countries including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have experienced temperatures soaring well above seasonal averages.
Countries including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have experienced temperatures soaring well above seasonal averages.
US pauses Hormuz escorts after Pakistan-led mediation gains traction, signalling shift towards a limited framework deal.
Experts say Trump’s pause of Project Freedom in Strait of Hormuz could be the ‘beginning of the end’ for war on Iran.
Violence in the remote state not only endures, but has mutated and deepened though assailants remain officially unnamed.
West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has firmly rejected stepping down after her party’s defeat.
Modi’s BJP won the key state of West Bengal for the first time. But the vote has thrown up questions that won’t go away.
The incident is the latest test of a fragile ceasefire agreed between the two countries last month.
Discussions on the sale of media rights in both countries are ongoing, FIFA says weeks before the World Cup begins.
As piracy resurges off Somalia, families of hijacked tanker crew in Pakistan search for answers and help.
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP is set to GAIN (wrest) control of West Bengal.
Nepal complains after India and China agree to resume a religious pilgrimage through a contested Himalayan pass.
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