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Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops
Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi and Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad
Textiles, footwear, jewellery, gems and seafood are sectors most affected in trade with US, India’s biggest market
Penelope MacRae in Delhi
Editorial: Images of the autocrats at Wednesday’s military parade reflected the shifting global order. But Donald Trump is hastening Beijing’s rise
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In today’s newsletter: In hosting anti-western leaders at its largest ever military parade, Beijing sent a defiant message that will be heard loud and clear across the world
Aamna Mohdin
Russian president says relations at ‘unprecedentedly high level’ as dozens of leaders gather for Victory Day events
Amy Hawkins
Other lives: Runner who captured international attention by running marathons in his 80s, 90s and 100s
Minreet Kaur
China seizes on opportunity for geopolitical realignment after India was hit with one of US’s harshest trade penalties
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
Russian leader, continuing China visit, is joined by Slovakia’s Robert Fico
Jakub Krupa
Leaders of Russia, Iran and North Korea will be at event marking 80 years since defeat of Japan in second world war
Amy Hawkins and Helen Davidson
Editorial: The White House wanted India to bow. Instead, Narendra Modi flew to China, shook Xi Jinping’s hand and left Washington sidelined
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In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother
Amit Chaudhuri
China’s leader urges attendees to oppose ‘cold war mentality’ while Russian president claims Ukraine war was ‘provoked by the west’
Helen Davidson in Taipei and Amy Hawkins
Chinese president holds bilateral meetings on sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin
Helen Davidson in Taipei
Divorce is not an end but a beginning, says Rafia Afi, who gets women together to change ideas about toxic marriages
Neha Bhatt in Delhi
PM’s four-day trip, which includes Japan visit, comes as Delhi seeks to diversify trade and bolster ties with Beijing
Penelope MacRae in Delhi
Editorial: The Kremlin sent a clear message with its lethal overnight raid on the Ukrainian capital. Will the US heed it?
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Likened to a ‘trade embargo’ and an ‘earthquake’, it could cut exports from affected sectors by as much as 70%
Penelope MacRae in Delhi
Rapace plays the canonised Kolkata nun with hard-bitten intensity in a complex, lurid story that veers between faithful telling and bouts of fun
Xan Brooks
US president has argued New Delhi indirectly helping fund Ukraine war as experts say move is ‘own goal’ against ally
Callum Jones in New York and Penelope MacRae in Delhi
Activists claim Anant Ambani’s Vantara facility has no plan to return its endangered species to the wild
Patrick Greenfield
Country suspends ‘catch-and-keep’ plan for strays in favour of a more ‘holistic’ approach
Penelope MacRae in Delhi
More than 300 people killed after downpours in mountainous regions and several killed in Indian city of Mumbai
Brendan Wood for MetDesk
The Jenu Kuruba reoccupied ancestral homes decades after they were forced out of Nagarhole to make way for tigers
Kaamil Ahmed
Countries agree to resume trade links and work to resolving border dispute after visit to Delhi by top diplomat Wang Yi
Helen Davidson in Taipei