Jason Burke

Sudden blanket ban on websites considered a ‘social nuisance’ is met with anger online and triggers debate on censorship and freedom.

Prime minister Sushil Koirala has said earthquake fatalities could more than double to 10 000, another blow to one of Asia’s poorest countries.

News analysis: US interest in the Afghanistan region is now waning, but various extremist factions will remain.

Election surveys show the supremacy of India’s greatest political dynasty is at an end.

Ten years after massacre, influential Indian politician meets with British high commissioner

India’s rapid progress may be halted if high public expenditure is not brought into check, writes Jason Burke.

A new film adaptation of ‘Midnight’s Children’, Salman Rushdie’s novel about India after independence, might not be shown in his native land.

The path to prosperity in India is not as straight and smooth as many would like to believe.

French security has been sanguine about the Muslim fundamentalist threat but last week’s shooting may change things.

In the fast-changing world of violent Sunni Muslim activism, it is reassuring to find that some things remain the same.

Salman Rushdie has damned politicians for giving in to the "false" leaders of India’s Muslims after he was threatened with violence.

The increasingly strained relations between the army and civilian leadership could lead to a coup.

Oprah Winfrey has managed to stop traffic and draw a crowd of hundreds when she visited a slum in Mumbai during her week-long visit to India.

The personal political adviser of Burma’s President Thein Sein says Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratic party ‘can be the ruling party one day’.

Indian spectators are increasingly drawn to the guts, gore and glory of full-contact fighting.