Saikat Datta, South Asia Editor

Prof Lawrence Liang, Dean of the Law faculty at Ambedkar University Delhi, has been found guilty of sexual harassment by an internal committee. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

India, Middle East, South Asia

Indian university finds top academic guilty of sexual harassment

by Saikat Datta March 8, 2018February 18, 2020

A Punjab National Bank branch in Kolkata. Photo: Reuters

AT Finance, China, India, Singapore, South Asia

10,000 bank clients hit by breach of credit card data

by Saikat Datta February 22, 2018February 18, 2020

Pakistani paramilitary troops take part in combat drills during a ceremony in connection with '53rd Frontier Corps Week' in Peshawar, Pakistan, November 19, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Fayaz Aziz

China, India, Iran, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia

Pakistan’s Saudi deployment risks entanglement in Yemen

by Saikat Datta and Kunwar Khuldune Shahid February 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the World Economic Forum in Davos with key accused Nirav Modi.

India, South Asia, World

Indian PM’s Office alerted to alleged bank scam in 2016

by Saikat Datta February 16, 2018February 18, 2020

Western powers want action against terrorist Hafiz Saeed and his groups. Photo: Reuters / Mohsin Raza

Afghanistan, France, Germany, India, Pakistan, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Hafiz Sayeed’s groups put on UN terror list

by Saikat Datta and Kunwar Khuldune Shahid February 15, 2018February 18, 2020

A still from the Steven Spielberg movie 'The Post' that was released in 2018. Photo: Courtesy Fox Movies

AT Finance, India, Middle East, Myanmar, Russia, South Asia, Turkey, Vietnam, World

A free press serves the governed, not governments

by Saikat Datta February 14, 2018

A Dassault Rafale multi-role fighter takes off. Photo: public domain

France, India, South Asia, World

Modi government in a muddle over deal for French fighter jets

by Saikat Datta February 8, 2018February 18, 2020

印度外交部长顧凱傑（右）与一名以色列外交官合照
相片： Twitter

China, India, South Asia

「中国通」升任外交大臣助印度走向全球

by Saikat Datta January 4, 2018February 18, 2020

India's foreign secretary designate Vijay Keshav Gokhale (right) with an Israeli diplomat Photo: Courtesy Twitter

Beijing, Bhutan, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Old China hand to guide India’s global path

by Saikat Datta January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace during a joint press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in June. Photo: AFP / Nicholas Kamm

Afghanistan, Australia, Bhutan, China, India, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Trump’s security strategy draws India closer, targets Pakistan and China

by Saikat Datta December 18, 2017February 18, 2020

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows his ink-marked finger after casting his vote outside a polling station during the last phase of the Gujarat State Assembly election in Ahmedabad on December 14, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Amit Dave

China, India, Pakistan, South Asia

As BJP wins Gujarat, Himachal, it is Modi vs Modi in 2019

by Saikat Datta December 18, 2017February 18, 2020

The Supreme Court has ruled that any transfer of citizens' data from the Aadhaar program gto private companies is unconstitutional. Photo: AFP

Germany, India, South Asia, World

Indian Govt postpones linking bank accounts to digital ID

by Saikat Datta December 13, 2017February 18, 2020

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) stands with chiefs of staff and defense ministers of a Saudi-led Islamic military counter terrorism coalition during their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia November 26, 2017. Photo: Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout

Afghanistan, India, Iran, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Pakistan’s delicate position in Saudi-led military coalition

by Saikat Datta and Kunwar Khuldune Shahid November 28, 2017February 18, 2020

Images widely circulated on social media showed Indian Army and the Air Force lack basic equipment to ferry home their dead comrades with dignity. (Image via Facebook/Saikat Datta)

China, India, Pakistan, South Asia, World

For 17 years, 900 body bags lie unused as Indian Army frets

by Saikat Datta October 11, 2017February 18, 2020

India's President Ram Nath Kovind pays tribute to Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, who breathed his last on September 17 in New Delhi. Photo: Courtesy Rashtrapati Bhawan

AT Finance, China, India, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia

Arjan Singh, India’s sole Marshal of the Air Force, dies at 98

by Saikat Datta September 18, 2017February 18, 2020

Rohingya refugees stretch out their hands for food near Balukhali in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Sept. 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters/ Mohammad Ponir Hossain

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, India, Middle East, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Bangladesh raises Rohingyas with India, seeks intervention

by Saikat Datta September 11, 2017February 18, 2020

Nirmala Sitharaman was sworn in on Sept. 3, 2017 as India's first woman to serve as defense minister. Photo: Government of India

India, Middle East, South Asia

India gets its first woman as full time Defense Minister

by Saikat Datta September 4, 2017February 18, 2020