South Asia

This year’s Maha Kumbh Mela is particularly significant. The alignment of stars and planets is said to be the same as when drops of celestial nectar fell on the earth.

In Kurram, rival tribes have clashed over competing narratives, claims of victimhood, and accusations of foreign interference.

Since the Cold War, relations have followed a pattern: a thaw, followed by a concoction or recycling of the boundary dispute.

Advisers in the interim government argue that four agreements signed by the Hasina government with India are unequal.

It presents India with a challenge but also an opportunity to diversify its oil imports.

A recent investigation raises serious questions about the role Pakistani authorities and institutions are playing in global cases of human trafficking.

Both governments denied allegations in the Washington Post about the Indian intelligence agency’s involvement in an aborted plot to impeach President Muizzu.

India is pushing ahead with an ambitious project to build an indigenous constellation of space-based surveillance capabilities.

Can data alone map out the countries that are most important for India? To a degree – yes.

While some see the moves as reflecting India’s greater security concerns over China, army veterans say the secular foundations of the Indian Army are being undermined.

Last week, the Indian Navy commissioned two indigenously developed warships and one submarine.

If Pakistan does not keep its part of the pipeline agreement with Iran, it will have to shell out a potential $18 billion to Tehran.