The Latest Breaking News from South Asia

Nepal has five million child brides. A proposal to lower the marriage age could imperil millions more, mothers warn.

As a child, I lived with my grandmother in a rural village in Sri Lanka where women often played an active economic role – working in sectors like farming, technology, sewing, household work or some other area. These days across South Asia, businesses led by women are on the rise,…

Old rivalries between India and Pakistan are driving a shift in regional ties, with New Delhi courting Afghanistan's Taliban while Islamabad befriends the new leaders of post-revolutionary Bangladesh.

Iqbal Mohamed, one of the Independent Alliance of five MPs, went viral after his earnest defence of first cousin marriages as Parliament debated a proposal to ban them. Among other things, Mohamed said, these unions “help build up family bonds”. Implicit is the multiculturalist plea for the “equality of cultures”.…

When student-led, anti-government protests in Bangladesh snowballed into the ouster of Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year-long autocratic rule in August 2024, many in the South Asian nation hoped it signaled better times ahead.

Cheap finance for climate projects is on offer from Australia for small businesses across the Pacific, Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Junior teams are brim-full of sub-continental influence but a year after a multicultural report state cricket is still to adapt to participation trends

Letters: Dr John Hopkin and Chris Hardy on commemorating the troops from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean who served in the wars

South Asian countries Bangladesh and India are using settler colonial policies as they resettle citizens in contested territories.