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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Meghna Bali |Som Patidar |Bhat Burhan |Ellie Grounds
Traumatic scenes have played out across the Indian city of Ahmedabad as families of those on flight AI171 arrived at hospitals desperate for information about their loved ones. Warning: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. The flight was moments into its journey to London when it sent a mayday call to local aviation authorities early on Thursday afternoon (local time).
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Ellie Grounds |Som Patidar
It was an innocuous thing any five-year-old would do. When Sadia Sulaiman was a child, construction work on her neighbour's house produced the perfect place to play — a mud pit. So she did. She played in it, came home and had a bath. Then, the fever hit. For 21 days, she had high temperatures. One night, a doctor gave her an injection. By the next morning, she could not walk. "My legs were not good," she recalls.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Meghna Bali |Ellie Grounds
In the Indian state of Bihar, a black market for booze runs rampant, making millions — and killing people in the process. Deep inside the Rajauli forest in India, the air is thick with the sweet and sour punch of yeast. About a dozen policemen march in single file through the tangled undergrowth, dry leaves crunching under their boots in the blazing sun. Suddenly, two massive drums loom into view, 1,000 litres each, bubbling with an illicit brew.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Ellie Grounds |Som Patidar
The last time Pakistan hosted an international cricket tournament, Meher Mohammad Khalil became a hero. But it wasn't for scoring centuries or leading his country to victory. It was for saving the opposing Sri Lankan team's lives. Mr Khalil, a bus driver, was chauffeuring the Sri Lankans in 2009 from their Lahore hotel to Gaddafi Stadium when armed militants opened fire on their bus. "They were firing on us from all sides," Mr Khalil recalled. "I put on the brakes and wondered what was happening.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Ellie Grounds |Bhat Burhan
Kolkata's Sealdah Court found Sanjay Roy guilty of raping and murdering a 31-year-old trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Doctors and health practitioners marched through the streets after the verdict, calling for "other" perpetrators to also be tried. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Monday. An Indian court has convicted a civic police volunteer of brutally raping and murdering a female doctor while she was at work in a Kolkata hospital last year.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Ellie Grounds
A tiny village in India's south will be watching the results of the US presidential election very closely this week. The small farming community is presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ancestral village and its residents are some of her most passionate supporters. Sabra Lane: While most of the world is watching the US presidential election this week, a small village in India will be glued to the result. The small farming community is presidential candidate Kamala Harris's ancestral village.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Ellie Grounds |Som Patidar
At the height of Sri Lanka's economic crisis in 2022, after months at a protest camp calling for the resignation of the country's president, Nixon Chandrenthan finally had a good night's sleep. The bed he slept in was in the presidential palace. "We enjoyed that really well, because we were so tired," he told the ABC. "We'd been at the [protest camp] for more than 90 days.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Ellie Grounds
This weekend, Sri Lankans will vote in their first presidential election since huge political upheavel. In the past two years, the country has endured an economic crisis and protests that forced the former president to flee the country. So, how are they faring now? And who will they put their trust in to continue the country's economic recovery? Featured: Nixon, Colombo residentRanil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan PresidentSuhana Peiris, Digital marketer Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Political expert
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Ellie Grounds
When the Taliban introduced a law essentially banning the sound of women's voices in public last month, the world was shocked. But those who live under the regime in Afghanistan, were not surprised. "Every day we are expecting a new law,"Zahra* told the ABC. "Every day we are expecting a new, unfortunately, limitation for women."For her, this kind of crackdown was inevitable. But being somewhat mentally prepared for it did not soften the detrimental blow to her mental health.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Henry Zwartz |Ellie Grounds
A policeman picks through charred vehicles on an isolated road in Pakistan's Balochistan province. The burned-out vehicles and bodies are all that remain after the attack in which 23 civilians were killed, part of the largest coordinated assault in recent years by an ethnic separatist terrorist group. Local officials said they were killed in a roadside attack after armed men checked passengers' IDs, before starting to shoot them and torch their vehicles.
