South Asian Digests
China to screen Pakistani dramas & films
January 17, 2022
Hearings on rohingya genocide case set for fe...
January 17, 2022
‘Menike Mage Hithe’ is BJP’s theme song in Ut...
January 17, 2022
Workers return home after losing jobs in Indi...
January 17, 2022
Navy chief leaves for Maldives, Sri Lanka
January 15, 2022
Sri Lanka: Elephants dying from eating plasti...
January 15, 2022
Taliban seeks greater role in distribution of...
January 14, 2022
Foreign Secy Shringla meets Bhutan minister t...
January 11, 2022
Top News
Expert warns of impending ‘genocide’ of Muslims in India
January 17, 2022
| By: SAM Staff
A genocide of Muslims in India could be about to take place, an expert said to have predicted the massacre of the Tutsi in Rwanda years before it took place in 1994, has warned.
Gregory Stanton, the founder and director of Genocide Watch, said during a US congressional briefing there were early “signs and processes” of genocide in the Indian state of Assam and Indian-administered Kashmir.
“We are warning that genocide could very well happen...
SOUTH ASIAN BRIEF
India and China’s border conundrum
Welcome to South Asia Brief.
The highlights this week: New Delhi and Beijing conclude their 14th round of talks in an ongoing border crisis, India announces the official dates for state elections in the coming months, and a hit Netflix show casts a Pakistani movie star
Reports
Myanmar's pro-democracy forces resist with crypt...
January 17, 2022
|
By: SAM Staff
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's National Unity Government, a pro-democracy group, recently announced that it officially endorses domestic distribution of the cryptocurrency Tether in a move to resist Myanmar's military, which seized control of the country last February, using fintech.
Tether is issued by a Hong Kong...
Sri Lanka economists tell government to default...
January 17, 2022
|
By: Munza Mushtaq
COLOMBO -- Sri Lanka's top economists and business leaders are urging President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government to default on a debt repayment next week and to use the nation's foreign currency reserves to buy fuel, food, medicine and other essentials.
Ajith Nivard Cabraal, governor of the...
India says boundary talks with Nepal through exi...
January 17, 2022
|
By: SAM Staff
The government of India has said that outstanding boundary issues with Nepal will be settled through the established mechanisms and channels.
The Indian response on Saturday comes amid an outcry in Nepal against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement on the expansion of a road via Lipulekh, a territory...
Journalists decry ‘forcible takeover’ of Kashmir...
January 17, 2022
|
By: Rifat Fareed
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Journalists have decried the “forcible and illegal takeover” of an independent media body by a group of journalists with the alleged help of local administration in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Outgoing KPC members say that, on Saturday, a group of journalists barged into the...
SAM Special
Why this bar to get information on Digital Security Act?
January 17, 2022
| By: Ali Riaz
The Information Commission of Bangladesh has been facing a test. This is because of a complaint filed with the commission by a rights activist as he did not receive certain information about the Digital Security Act from the police. This probably has provided a chance for the commission members to prove whether this constitutional institution has any autonomy or not.
Media reports say, rights activist Saad Hammadi in June 2021 sought information from the Bangladesh...
Issues
Human Rights Watch slams BJP governments for gro...
January 17, 2022
|
By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) government in India for gross violations of human rights in 2021, in its report for the year released now.
The report says that critics of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, including...
Rich Western countries stand by as Afghans face...
January 17, 2022
|
By: Vijay Prasad
On January 11, the United Nations emergency relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths, appealed to the international community to help raise US$4.4 billion for Afghanistan in humanitarian aid, calling this effort “the largest ever appeal for a single country for humanitarian assistance.”
This amount is required “in the hope...
Sri Lankans forced to cut back on food in worst...
January 17, 2022
|
By: Rohini Mohan
BANGALORE - Sri Lankans are struggling with shortages and spiralling prices of essential staples like rice, coconut, milk and fuel as the island nation grapples with its worst ever economic crisis.
The country faces the prospect of bankruptcy this year if it does not rebuild...
India’s government is ignoring, and sometimes ev...
January 17, 2022
|
By: SAM Report
Pulses raced as 12th-graders answered maths problems at St Joseph’s School in Ganj Basoda, a provincial town in the state of Madhya Pradesh, on December 6th. They faced a tough trial: national board exams that decide who gets into India’s best universities. But it was not...
Opinion
Why we need more female judges in every court
January 17, 2022
| By: Zubeida Mustafa
Defence
China, Russia and US in fifth-gen fighter expo...
January 15, 2022
| By: Gabriel honrada
China’s nuke carrier coup de grace in Taiwan S...
January 10, 2022
| By: Gabriel honrada
Editor`s Choice
‘15 minutes to save the world’: a terrifying...
By: Julian Borger
It became clear that things had gone terribly awry on this particular day when I saw that the most moderate option on the desk in...
3 things I learnt from a 'wasted' two pandemi...
By: Jeremy Au Yong
If you have had contact with people over the past few months, and I don't mean to rub it in if you haven't, then there...
Living with Covid-19: Coming to grips with ou...
By: Warren Fernandez
They call it ennui.
You know, that lingering mix of feelings of listlessness and tedium, of being adrift, bereft of neither a sense of anticipation,...
Focus
India
The forgotten legacy of Fatima Sheikh, India’s first Muslim teacher
January 17, 2022
| By: Saad Hasan
On January 9, Google honoured Fatima Sheikh, a reformer and educationist, with a doodle on its homepage on her 191st birth anniversary.
Sheikh is widely regarded as India’s first Muslim woman teacher. She taught at an all-girls school in the 1840s, despite severe opposition from feudals and conservatives who followed a rigid caste system.
That was a time when only privileged men had access to schools.
But her work has largely been forgotten - she’s relegated...
The United States should swallow the bitter pill of working with the Taliban-led government in order to prevent a failed state in Afghanistan.
Laurel Miller of the International Crisis Group, arguing for more U.S. engagement with the Taliban regime in Kabul.
Video
Modi’s made India communal & authoritarian; courts caving-in... December 18, 2021
IAF chopper carrying CDS General Rawat crashes in Tamil Nadu December 8, 2021
Pakistan burns confiscated drugs worth 1.3 billion dollars November 26, 2021
Audio
JAISHANKAR AND BLINKEN DISCUSS MYANMAR SITUATION AND ISSUES... February 10, 2021
Goel’s visit indicates RAW’s bid to revive past links with O... October 26, 2020
Why Abdullah Abdullah visited Pakistan and India? November 4, 2020
Lament of Separation: Songs of Habba Khatun...
January 18, 2022
The Tamils’ dalliance with Buddhism and how i...
January 17, 2022
Updating Jim Thompson's legacy for the 21st c...
January 17, 2022
Might a Malaysian ‘ghost town’ become a touri...
January 11, 2022
Saving Turkey's lost cultures, forgotten tast...
January 5, 2022
After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabi...
January 3, 2022
India's touring cinemas are dying and being r...
January 3, 2022
Body of Work: Documenting India’s indigenous...
December 22, 2021