This Month
How Prada sandals outraged India’s online army
The Italian fashion house drew a backlash with a menswear collection that included open-toed leather footwear modelled on a classic subcontinental design.
Air India junior pilot asked captain why he turned off fuel switches
The information reveals for the first time who said what in the cockpit before 260 people died in a plane crash.
Air India plane crash came after fuel cut from engines
Audio from the cockpit suggests both pilots were confused about why the fuel switches were turned off, according to a preliminary report by Indian authorities.
June
Trump insists he stopped India-Pakistan war despite Modi denial
The US president tried to take credit for a halt in hostilities between India and Pakistan, but Narendra Modi said the United States was not involved.
Trump’s Iran choice: last-chance diplomacy or a bunker-busting bomb
The US could still become directly involved in a new conflict, taking on Iran in exactly the kind of war that the president has sworn he would avoid.
India ramps up inspections of Boeing 787s after fatal crash
The checks are performed as the jets return to the south Asian country before being cleared for their next flights.
Air India crash unlikely a systemic Dreamliner problem: experts
Qantas is closely monitoring implications of the devastating Air India crash, but experts say it is unlikely to signal broader safety issues.
‘No idea how I survived’: Briton tells of Air India crash
A 40-year-old passenger appears to have been the sole survivor among the 242 people on board the Dreamliner that crashed shortly after take off.
Dazed sole survivor wanders street clutching boarding pass
“When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran,” sole crash survivor Vishwash Kumar Ramesh said from his hospital bed.
May
A caste census will reveal India’s worst-kept secret
The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its abolition.
Trump has a ‘little problem with Tim Cook’
The US president said he spoke to the Apple boss about moving the assembly of devices to the US, rather than accelerating a shift from China to India.
All quiet on India-Pakistan border after days of air strikes
India and Pakistan at the weekend reached an understanding to stop all military actions on land, in the air and at sea, in a US-brokered ceasefire.
Fragile India, Pakistan ceasefire holds after reports of firing
The ceasefire was expected to bring a swift end to weeks of escalating clashes, but the two nuclear powers accused each other of violating it hours later.
Why China’s military is the big winner from India-Pakistan attacks
India and Pakistan’s biggest skirmish in decades is also a major testing ground for Chinese and Western jets and other military hardware.
Tony Abbott backs Taylor, Price for Liberal leadership
The former PM has thrown his weight behind Angus Taylor and Jacinta Price to take over the Liberal leadership; Ed Husic unloads on Richard Marles. How the day unfolded.
Pakistan says it shot down 12 Indian drones
The latest response follows Indian missile strikes on Pakistani locations that killed 31 civilians, including women and children, according to officials.
How India’s military might stacks up against Pakistan’s
Pakistan’s 660,000-strong military is less than half the size of India’s and its defence spending was a 10th of its eastern neighbour’s last year.
India and Pakistan are in a dangerous cycle of escalation over Kashmir
The Modi government has attempted to position the strikes as legitimate counter-terrorism rather than acts of war.
‘Things can spin out of control’: India, Pakistan trade military strikes
The tit-for-tat blows between the two nations came amid soaring tensions over last month’s militant attack on tourists in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.
ASIC accuses Macquarie; Wilson backs nuclear; NAB most hunted bank
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