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    South Asia Correspondent

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    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      News in-depthIndian election
      ‘The credit will go to Modi’: India’s PM seeks G20 boost in upcoming elections

      Ruling Bharatiya Janata party exploits global spotlight to kick off campaign for regional and national polls

      India’s prime minister Narendra Modi waves to media representatives during the G20 summit in New Delhi
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      News in-depthBarrick Gold Corp
      Miners’ hunt for copper takes Barrick to Pakistan’s western frontier

      Reko Diq has potential to be one of world’s biggest suppliers of metal needed for energy transition

      Local government officials visit the gold and copper mine site in the town of Reko Diq in Pakistan
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Pakistan
      Pakistan roiled by protests over surging electricity costs

      Popular anger threatens to derail crisis-hit country’s $3bn IMF programme

      People gather during a protest against the surge in electricity prices along a street in Muzaffarabad on Thursday
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Imran Khan
      Pakistan court blocks Imran Khan’s release from prison

      Popular former prime minister fights barrage of legal cases that threaten his political comeback

      Imran Khan
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      News in-depthIndian politics & policy
      India’s communications ‘backdoor’ attracts surveillance companies

      Little-known Israeli groups emerge as key providers of tracking equipment installed at subsea cable stations

      Montage of Septier logo and communications tower
    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      G20
      Major Indian companies push for climate action in letter to G20

      Big polluters and clean tech companies join to call for urgent steps to deal with the ‘unforgiving’ effects of global warming

      Indian prime minister Narendra Modi
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      The new contest to land on the Moon

      India’s successful landing is the latest manifestation of renewed interest in lunar exploration, driven both by national pride and strategic considerations

      A mother and her daughter arrive at Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi to watch India’s Moon landing
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      India
      Indian spacecraft makes historic landing at Moon’s South Pole

      Chandrayaan-3 mission gives Narendra Modi a geopolitical boost after Russian crash

      Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      UK trade
      UK-India trade talks intensify in bid to remove ‘significant’ barriers

      Kemi Badenoch seeks progress with New Delhi this week but officials say full agreement unlikely ahead of G20 summit

      Kemi Badenoch
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Indian economy
      India to expand digital payments with AI-powered voice transactions

      UPI to roll out services targeting rural users with limited internet access and literacy

      A QR code for the Paytm digital payment system at a store in Mumbai, India
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Indian politics & policy
      Indian academics threaten walkout in free speech row

      Ashoka economics professor resigns after paper alleges electoral manipulation in favour of Modi’s BJP

      Students sit on the grass at Ashoka University outside Delhi
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      India
      India’s Modi ‘playing God’ with return of cheetahs

      Prime minister’s prestige project draws accusations of ‘vanity and showmanship’ as big cats die

      A cheetah lies inside a transport cage at the Cheetah Conservation Fund before being relocated to India in Namibia
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Indian politics & policy
      India passes landmark data protection bill

      Country with almost 1bn people connected to the internet has lacked a law regulating sharing of personal information

      Passengers use smartphones while sitting on a platform of a railway station in Mumbai
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      News in-depthPakistan's politics
      Pakistan election delay raises fears for democracy

      Postponed poll and Imran Khan’s imprisonment deepen political crisis amid economic turmoil

      Supporters wave flags with Khan’s face on them
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Pakistan's politics
      Pakistan election set for delay as boundaries redrawn

      Move follows jailing of popular opposition leader Imran Khan

      An officer at a prison in Attock, Pakistan, where former prime minister Imran Khan is being held
    • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
      Pakistan's politics
      Pakistan court sentences Imran Khan to 3 years in jail

      Former prime minister taken into custody from his Lahore home after ruling on corruption charges

      Imran Khan
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Saudi-hosted conference seeks to build support for Ukrainian peace plan

      Kyiv steps up efforts to engage key developing countries in isolating Moscow

      a residential building hit by a Russian missile in Dnipro, Ukraine
    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      Gambling industry
      India’s fantasy sports sector fears new tax will kill real-money games

      Government body proposes 28% levy on casinos, horseracing and skill-based online gaming

      Chennai Super Kings’ Ruturaj Gaikwad bats during an Indian Premier League cricket match
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      Pakistan
      Pakistan’s leader vows to punish attackers after bomb attack

      At least 40 dead in one of country’s worst terrorist assaults in recent years

      An ambulance carries injured people after a bomb explosion in Pakistanon Sunday
    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      News in-depthIndian economy
      India’s food price inflation raises risks for Modi government

      Cost of rice and tomatoes has soared due to erratic monsoon ahead of crucial elections next year

      People walk past tomatoes displayed at a vegetable market in Mumbai, India
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      News in-depthCricket
      Cricket’s ‘superpower’: India rises from ashes of old game

      Australia and England eclipsed by an Indian age bringing unparalleled riches and one-country dominance to the sport

      Sai Sudharsan, right, plays a shot as Mahendra Singh Dhoni watches during the Indian Premier League Twenty20 final cricket match between the Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings in May
    • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
      Indian politics & policy
      Modi crackdown leaves top Indian think-tank struggling

      Centre for Policy Research debilitated by loss of tax-exemption and foreign funding

      An Indian flag waves over the Sadar Bazaar in New Delhi
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      InterviewIndian business & finance
      Indian ride-hailing upstart BluSmart takes on Uber with electric cars

      Start-up operates 4,500 cabs in New Delhi and tech hub Bengaluru in bid to electrify country’s taxi fleet

      A picture of traffic in Delhi
    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      News in-depthIndian business & finance
      Byju’s taught a lesson by investors unhappy with online learning group

      Frustration with Indian start-up’s financials leads to backers quitting board and auditor resigning

      Byju Raveendran
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      InterviewUK trade
      UK trade talks ‘moving very well’, says Indian minister

      Top official downplays remaining hurdles on work visas and access to auto and spirits industries

      Piyush Goyal
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