South Asian

Mehbooba Mufti urges India and Pakistan to end hostilities, says skirmishes forced locals to migrate

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday sought an end to the hostilities between India and Pakistan on the borders, saying it is the people of the state who bear the brunt of the skirmishes.

California community debates 'saffronising' textbooks, Dalits, rewriting of South Asian history

Canadian PM to apologise for rejecting Sikh immigrants in 1914

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will offer a full apology in Parliament next month for a government decision in 1914 to turn away a ship carrying hundreds of South Asian immigrants.

Lawyers' body requests Obama to nominate South Asian to Supreme Court

US President Barack Obama has been requested by a lawyers' body and a Congresswoman to nominate a South-Asian American to the Supreme Court to fill up the vacancy caused by the sudden death of conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia.