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.
US president-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris, who will lead the nation next month, have appointed an Indian American, Maju Varghese, to be the executive director of their inauguration – the oath-taking ceremony at the Capitol on January 20 and the festivities around it
Arow has broken out in Nepal over the recruitment of Nepalis for the Qatar Police which tried to bypass the country’s foreign employment rules, and in which Qatari officials appear to be involved
Two Bangladeshi workers were seriously injured in Malaysia after a concrete wall collapsed on them while they were carrying out renovation work at a private college lobby on Sunday
Joe Biden, who is to become president in January, has picked Indian American Neera Tandon, a controversial close confidante of the Clintons, to head the powerful White House Office of Management and Budget, according to several media reports
The planned protest against new farm laws and the "brutality" of the security forces by lobbing teargas shells and using water cannons to stop the peaceful march of the farmers towards the national capital has left the largely Punjabii Indian diaspora in Canada worried and shocked
At least one Bangladeshi citizen was among a crew of 20 seamen, most of them Indian nationals, detained by Houthi rebels in Yemen capital Sana'a since February this year
Sri Lanka has received support from Switzerland and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to scale up efforts for the safe repatriation of Sri Lankan migrant workers who were unable to return to the country due to the COID-19 epidemic
An Australian court has charged doctor Shafiul Milky, a general practitioner, with rape and sexual assaults of female patients under the guise of performing necessary medical procedures, ABC News reports
Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy's son in law and UK chancellor Rishi Sunak is facing questions over the transparency of his wealth disclosures as his wife's holding in Infosys and other ventures has not been declared in the ministerial register
A Nepali national working in the Indian Army was killed in an attack in India’s Kashmir on Friday
The Sri Lanka Embassy in Ethiopia, in consultation with the Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka and the United Nations in Ethiopia, has successfully facilitated the evacuation of thirty-eight (38) Sri Lankan nationals from the war zone in Tigray region in the northern part of Ethiopia, the Foreign Ministry said
A 42-year-old Indian doctor has been cleared of the charge of molesting a woman after a Botox therapy session in Dubai
The Lebanese currency lost 81% of its value, and the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020 compounded by one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the world which hit the Beirut port in August has led to a serious economic crisis
In the first-ever expulsion of a peer in the history of the House of Lords in the UK, Lord Nazir Ahmed has controversially announced his retirement only to Pakistani news outlets, keeping silent in the UK
The Election Commission will send its officials to 40 countries to hand smart NID cards to the Bangladeshis living there
