Gay magazine editor slain in Bangladesh A founder of Bangladesh's first and only gay magazine has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka along with a friend, part of a wave of killings...
Maldives journalists face charges after protest The government of the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives has decided to put on trial two journalists for an opposition television station on...
Project Exile: Criticizing Sri Lanka war leads to exile When columnist and human rights activist Sunanda Deshapriya criticized the Sri Lankan government’s war against Tamil rebels, he didn’t know he...
Indian reporter arrested in school reporting fracas A newspaper reporter in the troubled central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has been arrested on a seven-month-old complaint filed by a principal whose...
Five arrested in India after threats to TV anchor Police in the south Indian state of Kerala have arrested five people from a right-wing Hindu nationalist group after a wave of threatening telephone...
Third Indian journalist in a year killed in Uttar Pradesh A journalist was shot dead by three gunmen on motorcycles in the Sultanpur district in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Karun Misra, 32,...
Mob stones home of Indian journalist who covered Maoists A mob in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has stoned a journalist’s house and car, demanding her death after accusing her of supporting...
New optimism on climate change The Paris agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions has led to new hope that the worst effects of climate change may be avoided. On this...
Hindu nationalists, impunity raise India press threat India is the world’s largest democracy, with a population of more than one point two billion people. It’s also an incredibly diverse place where...
BBC veteran sees India media liberty waning "Media in India is not as free as it used to be." BBC World correspondent Zubair Ahmed has covered protests, communal violence and many other...
