South Asia

Gen. Bipin Rawat was the most senior official in the Indian military and the first chief of defense staff, a position created by the government in 2019. 

Several police officers from Assam trained the Mukti Bahini in guerrilla warfare in the run-up to the war.

India and Russia signed an agreement to extend their military technology cooperation for the next decade.

The mob killing of a Sri Lankan is the culmination of a fire lit decades ago, when a doctrinaire interpretation of Islam was allowed to thrive in a politically driven move to legitimize religious intolerance.

In 2001, the Taliban ransacked the museum, smashing priceless statues, especially those considered un-Islamic. 

The Quad may still be a mist-covered structure but Indo-Japanese cooperation against China is becoming more concrete.

The corrupt system of the past might be gone, but the new chapter in Afghanistan’s history is unlikely to be much better. 

Calls for revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act are growing louder in the restive state.

Fifty years after it gained its independence, Bangladesh’s commitment to secularism remains shaky.

Mob attacks on people accused of blasphemy are common in Pakistan.

The West Bengal Chief Minister aims to lead the opposition in the fight against India’s ruling BJP.