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How rebuilding old mosques is bringing Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims together in Punjab
Many Muslims saw their places of worship destroyed or abandoned during the sectarian violence of India’s parti...
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India slashes cost of cancer drugs after court rules mark-ups are ‘extortion’
Case filed in 2022 by patient unable to afford medicine leads to cap on drug prices for millions who face ruin...
Business
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani launches India’s biggest-ever IPO
Low-cost broadband provider Jio Platforms aims for £81bn valuation when it floats on the stock market on Wedne...
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Pact with Saudi Arabia threatens to draw Pakistan into Middle East conflict
Activation of mutual defence agreement by Riyadh as fighting with Houthis escalates would have wide-reaching r...
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No hope, no vote … how most of Delhi’s sex workers are being struck off electoral rolls
Modi’s bid to ‘purify’ voter lists has affected a third of the city’s residents. In the GB Road red light dist...
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‘I spend a bagful of money and don’t fill a bag’: the energy crisis hits Bangladesh
The country has been left in the dark as it endures power cuts caused by the Iran war and reliance on gas impo...
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‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with c...
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Xi Jinping gets red carpet at Brics summit amid thaw in India-China relations
Chinese president’s arrival in Delhi seen as step towards reconciliation after deadly 2020 military clash
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Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster
Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which cont...