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For many postcolonial societies education has historically been one of the primary sites of decolonisation. This is not ...

Pakistan javelin ace Arshad Nadeem, who won gold at Paris Olympics last year, is the most notable absentee at the Neeraj ...

Bill Spindle is a former South Asia bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal overseeing coverage of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangledesh and Sri Lanka.

Of the six Popes of my lifetime starting with John XXIII, I felt emotionally closest to Pope Francis and saddest at his ...

In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping prevent some of the hundreds of fatal tramplings each ...

Van Hollen was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and lived in the Washington area, Turkey, India and Sri Lanka during his childhood ...

The new bridge replaces the iconic 110-year-old structure, damaged by the devastating cyclone of 1964, and revives a vision that once stretched across borders, direct rail connectivity between India ...

Before 1964, travelers journeyed from Madras (now Chennai) to Colombo, Sri Lanka ... the 50-year-old Pamban Rail Bridge—Pamban Island's sole link to mainland India—and obliterated the railway ...

The newly inaugurated Pamban Bridge in Tamil Nadu is more than just a marvel of engineering—it revives a century-old dream of seamless travel between India and Sri Lanka. Once a vibrant rail-ferry ...

The only unfinished piece was a fixed link between Dhanushkodi and Sri Lanka’s Talaimannar ... The first of its kind in India, it replaces the rusted century-old structure that had served ...