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South Asia

British Army Gurkha veterans stage 5th day of hunger strike outside...

Aug. 12, 2021 URKHAS reached the one-week mark of their hunger strike outside Downing Street to demand equal pensions today. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said today...

Bangladesh factory owner among those arrested after over 50 workers die...

Jul 10, 2021 New details of breaches of safety regulations and the suspected use of child labor have emerged as Bangladesh deals with the aftermath...

Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will...

Without an immediate global effort to combat the climate emergency, the Earth’s uninhabitable areas will keep growing Jun 30, 2021 Photograph: Kathryn The climate crisis means that...

Amid pressures from Quad, China discusses military ties with Sri Lanka

By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya With the Indian Ocean increasingly becoming a locus of big power contestation, the recent two-day visit to Sri Lanka by Chinese Defence...

‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s...

It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile,...

The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing

by Vijay Prashad April 26, 2021 For Ashish Yechury (1986-2021), journalist Photograph Source: Gwydion M. Williams – CC BY 2.0 It is difficult to overstate the grip of...

US’s Indian Ocean proxy war: Sri Lanka, Maldives in the crosshairs

By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya Apr.3, 2021 Maldivian parliamentarians have been up in arms since the government’s signing of a defence agreement with India in February which, according...

India Joins French-led Military Drills in the Bay of Bengal, Escalating...

India and its Quad partners are drilling with France in the Bay of Bengal Posted on April 4, 2021 Categories India is joining its fellow Quad...

Sri Lanka’s ‘IndoPacific’ role revealed in secret US document?

By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya The launch in Colombo of a Trilateral Maritime Security Secretariat, for cooperation between Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives, merits closer scrutiny....

Kerala polls: Left triumph will help transform the very base of...

Vijay Prashad spoke to Kerala’s Finance Minister Thomas Isaac about the upcoming legislative elections in Kerala. March 17, 2021 Vijay Prashad spoke to Kerala’s Finance Minister...