The Latest Breaking News from South Asia

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.

Index shows that 83.2 percent of the world’s poorest people live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Why are some South Asians choosing not to have children amid a population crisis?

Residents of Kathmandu returned to their mud-caked homes on Sunday to survey the wreckage of devastating floods across the Himalayan republic.

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of rain-related disasters in South Asia, experts warn

The Kingdom of Bhutan, a landlocked small sovereign state in South Asia, holds more Bitcoin than El Salvador, and the massive treasury didn't come from seizures or purchases, but from mining the world's top digital asset.

Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia as officials joined dignitaries in neighbouring Turkmenistan to celebrate its completion on that side of the border.

A surprise improvement in air quality in South Asia in 2022 drove a decline in global pollution, with favourable weather a likely factor, a new report said Wednesday.