In the end, the need to remember our war dead transcends borders, alliances, and eras. These disturbed graves — British, Australian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi in origin — call us to a solemn duty: To honour all who fell with dignity. Forgetting them, or allowing their memory to be selectively bulldozed, diminishes us all.
Together, the team conducts collaborative research and policy development initiatives across four South Asian countries - Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Their work aims to strengthen national preparedness, improve crisis response systems, and support governments in building resilient, technology-enabled public safety infrastructure. Together, these researchers represent a growing national capability in applying Artificial Intelligence to real-world challenges.
When South Asians organise across faith, class, and national origin lines, standing with Black, Latino, white working-class, and other allies, they help fracture the divide-and-rule strategies that sustain far-right growth. This is the deeper truth of “the people united will never be defeated.” Elites and far-right forces rely on division: Pitting workers against immigrants, Hindu against Muslim, citizens against refugees.
Countries such as Australia and Canada will continue to rely on immigration, much of it from South Asia. That reality carries responsibility not only for governments, but also for migrant communities themselves. South Asians—many of whom are highly visible beneficiaries of these migration systems—have a stake in strengthening social cohesion, engaging in national conversations and demonstrating, through civic participation and leadership, that demographic change can reinforce rather than fragment the societies they now call home.
The Ukraine crisis is having a bearing on India's strategic ties with the United States - that has so far refrained from sanctioning India on this - saying that Russia selling S-400 missile defense system to India "shines a spotlight on the destabilising role" that Moscow is playing in the region and potentially beyond as well
The partnership between India and the United States is rooted in their shared responsibility to uphold democratic values, the White House said on Tuesday as it greeted the people of India on the occasion of the country’s 73rd Republic Day
The US Supreme Court has decided to consider a challenge to the affirmative action programmes at its universities reopening an issue that adversely affects Indian American students
An Indian American police officer, on the job for just over six months, is being hailed a hero for rushing to neutralise a gunman who shot a police officer and wounded another in a hail of gunfire in New York's Manhattan
The festering migrant crisis on America's borders came home to India when a family of four Indian nationals, including an infant, were found frozen to death along the US-Canada border in what authorities believe was a failed crossing attempt during a blizzard
Responding to swirling - and often motivated - rumours and media speculation about her political future, US President Joe Biden declared categorically that Kamala Harris will be his running mate on the eve of their completing the first year in office
Malik Faisal Akram, 44-year-old Pakistani Briton who took four people hostage in a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, wanted to free al-Qaeda-linked Pakistani-American neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, a celebrity Muslim woman among the jihadi circle
The Sikh community in the United Kingdom has started to push back against anti-India campaign, which is led by the Khalistani separatists
Pakistan’s former Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani on Thursday addressed a conference in at Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he recalled his confrontational days of the judiciary with former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved the nomination of Eric Garcetti to be the US ambassador to India and Donald Armin Blome to be the US envoy to Pakistan, positions that have been vacant for quite some time
US President Joe Biden's nominee as top official dealing with sanctions has clearly hinted that India, a “vital ally” against China, may be spared sanctions for buying the S400 Triumf anti-missile defence system from Russia
The Bangladesh government has roped in several lobbying groups and activated them to present the country’s case with top US politicians, influence groups, civil rights groups, and media
New York Police Department's (NYPD) Hate Crimes Unit has joined the investigation into the attack on a Sikh taxi driver at the city's main airports following a call for action by India's Consulate here
The 15th edition of the annual Global Healthcare Summit organized by the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) concluded in Hyderabad with a commitment to continue efforts towards improving preventive care in India, and to collaborate with the federal, state and local governments, healthcare and technological industries, as well as with several not for profit organizations, to help India make health delivery accessible, affordable and efficient
With internal wrangling in the Senate over nominations abating, the appointment of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as the envoy to India could finally get moving nearly six months after President Joe Biden nominated him even as New Delhi has gone for almost a year without an ambassadorial US representation
