Jason Burke
Libya is now central to the investigation into Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old who bombed Manchester Arena.
Updated 28 May, 2017 08:59am
The rags-to-riches-to-remand story of Indrani Mukerjea is seen as a moral fable about materialism, media and motherhood.
Updated 11 Sep, 2015 08:59am
New law allowing foreigners to own land on Maldives has sharpened regional competition for influence over Indian Ocean.
Updated 06 Oct, 2020 04:32pm
NEW Delhi: They call it the Richie Rich Club and it is about to get even richer. India’s wealthiest will quadruple...
Published 26 Jul, 2014 05:13am
MORTEN Storm is a former biker turned European militant Islamist blowhard, turned Al Qaeda associate close to some ...
Published 13 Jul, 2014 06:00am
Over next 6 weeks half a billion Indians will vote in the 16th general election since India won independence in 1947.
Updated 09 Apr, 2014 12:15pm
The presidential election and US withdrawal are likely to have complex repercussions for the region's web of networks.
Updated 03 Apr, 2014 11:57am
Rahul Gandhi has revealed a dislike of Hollywood films, a taste for non-fiction books, and no immediate plans to marry.
Updated 19 Mar, 2014 08:16am
RAHUL Gandhi, the scion of India’s first political family, has said he is not driven by the desire for power and...
Published 29 Jan, 2014 07:25am
DELHI: Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, has written to powerful politicians in the south of India to ...
Updated 19 Oct, 2013 07:58am
KILINOCHCHI (Sri Lanka): In a stand of scruffy palms a few yards from a dirt track, two brothers are building their...
Published 10 Oct, 2013 07:04am
DELHI: The potholes in Raipur, a city of a million people in the centre of India, are so big they now have names:...
Updated 03 Sep, 2013 07:00am
NEW DELHI: India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has made a rare speech in parliament in an attempt to restore...
Published 01 Sep, 2013 07:23am
AL QAEDA remains a significant threat to western targets as it “continues to diversify” into increasingly...
Updated 09 Aug, 2013 04:41am
DELHI: As wills go, it was one worth fighting over. For more than two decades, lawyers in the north-western Indian...
Updated 30 Jul, 2013 06:46am
Five major elements western intelligence analysts will immediately notice as they work through the Abbottabad report.
Updated 10 Jul, 2013 01:24pm
NEW DELHI: The Nobel laureate and social activist Mohammad Yunus has asked western consumers and businesses to help...
Published 14 May, 2013 08:19am
INDIA’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has called for a collective effort to protect women in the country as protests continued in Delhi after the rape of a five-year old girl last week
Published 23 Apr, 2013 03:12am
BACK in what is in effect jihadi pre-history, Osama bin Laden, then simply a well-connected, wealthy young Saudi ideologue and veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war, sent an emissary to Algeria to offer assistance to the Groupe Islamique Arme, a band of savage
Published 20 Jan, 2013 12:00am
NEW DELHI: Demonstrations against sexual violence are spreading across south Asia as anger over the gang rape and death of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi courses through the region.
Published 05 Jan, 2013 10:01pm
