Milk sachets, chicken, fuel: basics slip out of reach for...
March 3, 2022
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Sri Lanka's main opposition activists hold torches during a demonstration to denounce the shortage of cooking gas, kerosene oil and a few other comm...
Outcry over ‘blatant misogyny’ in Indian English exam
December 15, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Sonia Gandhi, pictured last month, president of the opposition Congress party, said the exam was ‘atrocious’ and ‘shockingly regre...
Seven dead after violence erupts during Hindu festival in...
October 18, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Demonstrators take to the streets in Dhaka after allegations of the desecration of an Islamic holy book in the city of Cumilla swept Bangladesh. Pho...
Death threats sent to participants of US conference on Hin...
September 10, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Supporters and members of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata party. Photograph: Jagadeesh Nv/EPA...
Gunfire fills the air in Kabul as Taliban celebrate airpor...
August 31, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
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As the last US military transport aircraft lifted off from Kabul airport on Monday night, marking the end of two decades of American troo...
Hope and disappointment under lockdown in Kashmir
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Girls playing in the school compound during an afternoon break. Photograph: Showkat Nanda
Having grown up in the troubled Indian region of Kashmi...
India mosque demolition: officials accused of filing false...
June 2, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
The site of the mosque in the district of Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh, India, before and after its demolition
A local government administration in...
Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India – until...
Facebook allowed a network of fake accounts to artificially inflate the popularity of an MP from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), fo...
'India's soul at stake': West Bengalis vote in divisive el...
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, addresses a campaign rally in Kolkata
In the sleepy, swampy surroundings of Nandigram, West Beng...
How pandemic may finally sink Kashmir's famous houseboats
March 9, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Building and repair ban had turned Dal Lake into graveyard for sinking boats even before coronavirus and Delhi crackdown
Ghulam Nabi Butt may be...
Delhi Muslims fear they will never see justice for religio...
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India: activist arrested over protest 'toolkit' shared by...
February 16, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
The Indian climate activist Disha Ravi. She co-founded the Bangalore branch of Friday’s for Future, a global movement for social justice begun...
Roaring crowds, roti and Rihanna: the view from a Delhi fa...
February 13, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Puffing out his chest, his lime green turban luminescent in the morning sun, Surinder Singh made it clear he was a man who would not easily be moved....
Twitter concerned for staff in India after row over accoun...
February 10, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
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Daniel Pearl murder: Pakistan supreme court orders release...
Pakistan’s supreme court has ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamist militant who had been sentenced to death...
Violent clashes as Indian farmers storm Delhi's Red Fort
Farmers protesting against new agriculture laws in India broke through police barricades around the capital and entered the grounds of Delhi’s h...
Amazon Prime drama agrees to changes after Hindu nationali...
January 22, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
An Indian political drama on Amazon Prime has been forced to edit out scenes that were accused of being an “insult to Hindu gods”, the fir...
Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism res...
January 18, 2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Indian police paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi in 2008. Since the BJP came to power in 2014, his vision of equal rights for all religions has been er...
Public outrage grows after Indian army kills three in Kash...
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Surrounded by mourners who gathere...
Indian news channel fined in UK for hate speech about Paki...
December 24, 2020
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
The comments were aired on a show hosted by Arnab Goswami (pictured in car), who was arrested in India in November on an unrelated matter. ...
Pakistan approves tough anti-rape law amid outcry over vic...
December 17, 2020
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
A gang-rape in Pakistan in September prompted outcry, fuelled by police blaming the victim. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
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