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South and central Asia

June 2026

  • A man kneels down among his crops.

    ‘I fear people will go to war over water’: as wells run dry, farmers struggle to survive in Bangladesh

  • A person in a red and yellow sari sits under an umbrella selling leafy greens at a street market

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Monsoon season brings vital rainfall to parts of Asia

  • Imran Khan, centre, addresses his supporters outside his residence in Islamabad in 2016. Photograph: BK Bangash/AP

    The Audio Long Read
    Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan – podcast

    Podcast48:19
  • A hand holds up a cockroach mask in front of a large crowd

    ‘What if all cockroaches came together?’ The youth movement threatening to shake up India’s politics

  • Sherpa found alive after vanishing on Mount Everest almost a week earlier – video

    Video0:52

  • Missing Sherpa guide found alive on Everest after funeral rites had begun

  • Opinion
    double quotation markA bird has better protection than an Afghan woman. Welcoming the Taliban to Europe is a slap in the face

    Fawzia Koofi

  • Cricket Canada suspended over allegations of gang-linked corruption

May 2026

  • A view of eastern Kabul.

    Eighteen people killed in Afghanistan truck crash, including 10 children

  • A social media complaint about problems in India’s final school year exams has spiralled into a national controversy.

    Exam fail: Indian students complain en masse about marking errors in key final exams

  • The exterior of the Delhi Gymkhana Club

    One of India’s most exclusive private clubs is facing eviction. What’s behind the fight that has upset Delhi’s elite?

  • Buffalo with yellowish-blond hair being led by two people holding tethers

    Blond Bangladeshi buffalo nicknamed ‘Donald Trump’ saved from Eid sacrifice

  • Indians protest over ‘forever chemicals’ after relocation of scandal-hit Italian factory

  • ‘My head spins with the heat’: India’s gig workers battle exhaustion amid soaring temperatures

  • Starmer urged to intervene in ‘rigged’ Indian prosecution of British human rights activist

  • Suicide bombing near railway track in Pakistan kills at least 23 people

  • Trump to meet with US negotiators to decide on Iran’s ceasefire proposal

  • India’s government orders handover of exclusive Delhi Gymkhana Club

  • Qatar sends mediators to Tehran in sign talks to reopen strait of Hormuz are reaching climax

  • Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Heavy rain triggers flooding and landslides in parts of China

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