The death of musician Zubeen Garg brought an entire Indian state to a standstill. When people turn stardom into selflessness they can touch millions. A mural portrait of Zubeen Garg. (Photo by Deeya Borpatra Gohain) This article was produced exclusively for News...
The Himalayan mountains hold the largest concentration of ice and snow outside the polar regions. They are already melting. A drone view of the aftermath of flash flooding along the Trishuli river in Nuwakot district, Nepal, 30 August 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar...
In India and across the world, journalists are finding that they must please a robot before they can get their story to an audience. An editor tells a reporter the algorithm liked their story. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced exclusively for...
For the people who live on a central Indonesian island, rising sea levels aren’t theoretical. Constant flooding has washed away homes, communities and livelihoods. A house that sank due to rising sea levels and was abandoned by residents in Simonet village,...
Thousands of students in India were able to sustain a protest with the help of food ordered by strangers from across the ocean. Illustration of someone ordering food when seeing the Delhi protests on their computer. (Illustration by News Decoder with a photo by Mohsin...
Calling unemployed youth pests doesn’t make them go away. Instead, they are mobilizing for change in systems where they are treated with contempt. A demonstrator wearing a cockroach mask participates in the protest, symbolising solidarity with the Cockroach Janta...
We can get clean energy by tapping the heat of the Earth. But in Indonesia, geothermal plants destroy the land and lives of people who have long lived there. The Ulumbu Geothermal Power Plant in Wewo village, Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia,...
Two of the world’s most powerful nations share a border. But do they share the same objectives? What happens if they don’t? Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China 20 May 2026....
War in Iran has disrupted global supply chains. For workers in one city in India, this means the collapse of the diamond industry they depend on. A trader inspects diamonds on a market street in Surat, India, 14 April 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) This article was...
In South Asia, decades-long animosities divide nations and the people within them. Cricket operates on a different plane and that’s something all can agree on. Sri Lanka’s Pavan Rathnayake plays a shot during the T20 World Cup cricket match between...