Written by The prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) said he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, for crimes against humanity over the alleged persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority. A panel of three judges will decide if there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Gen Min Aung Hlaing […]
For Rohingya refugee Hussain Ahmed, the hope that his children might receive a formal education to secure a better adulthood than his own was what “kept him going”. After fleeing to India from Myanmar in 2016, he began working as a construction worker in a country where he is not allowed to seek legal employment. […]
Gurpreet Singh Johal is sitting in a London hotel lobby the night before he is due to meet David Lammy. He recalls in his soft Scottish burr that this will be the fifth UK foreign secretary he will have seen in his quest to secure the release of his brother, Jagtar, who has been detained […]
The family of a woman found dead in a car boot in east London have accused police of not doing enough to protect her, saying she had filed a complaint alleging domestic abuse by her husband weeks before. The body of Harshita Brella, a 24-year-old Indian citizen who was living in Northamptonshire, was discovered last […]
Pollution levels in India’s capital, Delhi, have soared to their highest levels this year, forcing schools and offices to close and cloaking the city in thick brown smog. In some parts of the city, a live air quality ranking by IQAir put pollution levels at more than 30 times the maximum level deemed healthy. India’s […]
Ten newborn babies have died after a fire broke out at the neonatal unit of a hospital in northern India, with another 16 clinging to life. The fire broke out late on Friday at the Maharani Lakshmibai Medical College in Jhansi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, 450km (280 miles) south of Delhi. Footage from […]
Perhaps the best known cultural remnant of the mighty Mughal empire, which held sway across what is today Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India and Bangladesh in the 16th and 17th centuries, is the English word “mogul”, denoting someone of almost unimaginable wealth and power. Just how wealthy and powerful the Mughal emperors were is demonstrated in a new […]
With Remembrance Day coming, arguments about whether poppies should be worn are in full flow. Yet there is one issue that never seems to be heard in the annual debate that now marks this solemn occasion: while Britain fought the second world war to defeat Nazi Germany, putting its own existence as a free country […]
Writing to the then Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, in October 1988, Salman Rushdie lamented that Indian democracy had become “a laughing stock” after the government placed a ban on importing his contentious novel The Satanic Verses. Now 36 years later, the author may have the last laugh as the ban looks set to be […]
Opening with a special shoutout to the Jammu & Kashmir police, this is the fifth entry in the so-called Cop Universe envisioned by producer-director Rohit Shetty, following two prior Singhams and two spin-offs, 2018’s Simmba and 2021’s Sooryavanshi. Throwing back to the slaphappy mass cinema of the 1970s and 80s, 2011’s first Singham was a […]