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Reporters Without Orders Ep 260: India’s ‘living dead’, slash in minority affairs budget

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Sumedha Mittal of Newslaundry and Pallavi Pundir, South Asia correspondent for Vice. 

Newslaundry · Feb 25, 2023

Seattle becomes first US city to ban discrimination by caste

Seattle is also the first city in the world to pass such a law outside South Asia

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

Seattle becomes the first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination

Calls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora communities in the United States.

WEKU · Feb 22, 2023

FAO: Rising Prices, Food Insecurity Add to Ranks of Hungry

Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a report released Tuesday by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other United Nations agencies. Nearly a half-billion people, more than eight in 10 of them in South…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 24, 2023

Air traveller's bags were packed with restricted medicines

A 57-year-old man was arrested on arrival at Suvanabhumi airport from Pakistan with 79,200 tablets of anti-anxiety and stimulant medication in his luggage, Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) secretary-general Wichai Chaimongkol said on Monday.

Bangkok Post · Jan 23, 2023

Rivers are still people in South Asia despite court showdown

Rivers are the lifeblood for millions of Indians and Bangladeshis. But a radical legal idea to save them from pollution is being met with opposition.

360info · Jan 2, 2023

South Asian eateries try ‘going local’ as recovery strategy

Hotels and restaurants across South Asia have had to adapt and reimagine dining out since the pandemic ripped through the region, forcing many out of business

The Independent UK · Dec 31, 2022

India’s plan to take on China as south Asia’s favourite lender

With the private sector’s help, New Delhi has stepped up spending on infrastructure in neighbouring countries

Financial Times · Dec 1, 2022

On outskirts of Doha, laborers watch World Cup they built

Far from Doha’s luxury hotels and sprawling new World Cup stadiums, scores of South Asian workers poured into a cricket ground in the city’s sandy outskirts to enjoy the tournament they helped create

The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2022

How Devon Avenue became the hub of Chicago’s Indian community

The stretch east from the north branch of the Chicago River has long been known as Little India. The diverse West Ridge strip has become home for many and is still evolving.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 25, 2022