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India’s vice-captain Smriti Mandhana with mascots of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup before a match at Indore.  The tournament has seen the presence of women not just on the field but as umpires, match referees, officials and commentators.
The sports journalist discusses the lazy marketing of ICC Women’s World Cup, pay disparities between men and women cricketers and the change to the game in recent years
In the Maldives, the majority of the media is online and most people rely on digital news websites for information. A new law now grants a government commission extensive powers to regulate such media outlets.
The journalist discusses how the government has pushed through a law with vague and broad language that can allow the persecution of critical media outlets
People wade through water in Pakistan’s Punjab province. By mid-September, at least 900 people had died and about four million were impacted by the floods that ravaged the country during the monsoon months.
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The Editors
The professor of critical geography discusses how climatic variability, unregulated development and colonial water governance exacerbates Pakistan’s flood vulnerability
School children joined thousands of protesters against political corruption in Kathmandu on 8 September, a protest that ultimately resulted in the fall of Nepal's government. As an interim government is formed, GenZ campaigners are reminding everyone that they are not a homogenous group and that marginalised groups must not be ignored.
The poet Ujjwalla Maharjan, law student Anjali Sah and climate activist Tashi Lhazom on how Nepal’s Gen Z is not a homogenous group and the new Nepal must pay attention to the marginalised
Supporters of the former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo protest his arrest under corruption charges.
The writer and researcher calls the opposition’s show of support for Wickremesinghe “farcical at best and infuriating at worst”
A man pushes a cart loaded with belongings and a family walks in a dust storm at the Islam Qala border crossing in Afghanistan in July 2025.
By
The Editors
The editor of Zan Times describes the racism underlining Iran’s maltreatment of Afghan refugees during deportation and the crisis they face back in Afghanistan
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