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Drone view of Nepal's parliament building on fire, with anti-corruption Gen Z protests on the streets before the complex.
By
Roman Gautam
After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment
A placard with "Wanted" posters of major Nepali political leaders, including Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, held aloft and amid Nepali national flags at a youth protest in Kathmandu
By
Pranaya Rana
Police opened fire on Gen Z protests against corruption and a social-media ban, leaving 19 dead in the deadliest day of protest in Nepal’s history
Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, with Ahsan Iqbal, the federal minister for planning and development. Iqbal has said that the current resource-sharing formula between the country’s centre and provinces places an undue financial burden on the federal government.
As Pakistan’s government restarts a debate on resource sharing between the country’s centre and the provinces, concerns emerge on fiscal recentralisation
Illustration: Akila Weerasinghe
Excavating the intellectual and political convictions of M M Kalburgi ten years on from the Kannada scholar’s assassination by Hindu nationalist fanatics
Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda (left) receives his appointment as National Security Advisor from Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa (second from right) at a ceremony in Colombo in 2009. Two other officials stand nearby in the wood-panelled office.
The sanctioned former Sri Lankan navy chief’s memoir contains potential admissions relevant to alleged crimes committed during the country’s civil war, and raises serious questions of publisher accoun ...
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