South Asia

Published: 12 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Authorities in India’s capital, New Delhi, closed six metro stations and announced extensive traffic restrictions on Monday as opposition parties prepared to march towards the Supreme Court over a controversial revision of electoral voter lists. The measures came amid days of demonstrations, mass detentions and growing political tensions surrounding allegations that millions of eligible voters may have been...

Published: 10 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Pakistan’s political tensions are intensifying as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sohail Afridi has called on party supporters from across the country to gather at Swabi Interchange on 11 October, where the opposition party is expected to announce the next phase of its long march demanding the release of former prime minister Imran Khan....

Published: 10 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Indian authorities detained scores of protesters in New Delhi on Saturday, including the founder of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), Abhijeet Dipke, as thousands of police officers and paramilitary personnel were deployed across the capital to prevent an unauthorised demonstration demanding the resignation of the country’s chief election commissioner. The confrontation has intensified a growing political dispute...

Published: 10 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Indian authorities detained scores of protesters in New Delhi on Saturday as thousands of police officers and paramilitary personnel were deployed across the capital to prevent a major youth-led demonstration demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The protest, organised by the satirical youth movement known as the Cockroach Janta Party, has intensified a growing political...

Published: 09 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Thousands of police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed across New Delhi ahead of a planned mass demonstration over India’s controversial voter-list revision process, as authorities prepare for possible tensions surrounding Saturday’s protest. The demonstration has been called by several organisations, including the youth-led Cockroach Janata Party, or CJP, which is demanding accountability from India’s Chief Election Commissioner...

Published: 09 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A major lawyers’ organisation in Pakistan has announced its full support for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s long march and political demands, adding fresh momentum to an increasingly tense national debate over democracy, constitutional rights and the rule of law. The All Pakistan Lawyers Action Committee has described the movement as a potentially historic effort to strengthen democratic...

Published: 09 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online India’s emerging youth-led political movement, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), has accused authorities of carrying out widespread detentions of its supporters and affiliated activists ahead of a major anti-government demonstration scheduled for Saturday in New Delhi. The allegations have intensified an already heated political dispute over a nationwide revision of voter lists, a process that opposition parties say...

Published: 08 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Sri Lanka’s former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa has been arrested by the country’s anti-corruption authorities over allegations involving the misuse of donated funds intended to support a children’s hospital. Rajapaksa, 73, was arrested at her residence in Colombo on Wednesday, two days after returning to Sri Lanka from Singapore, where she had been receiving medical treatment. She was...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Delhi government has temporarily suspended the promotion of a senior police officer accused of sexually harassing female journalists during opposition protests in the Indian capital, following growing criticism over the decision to elevate him while complaints against him remain unresolved. The officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police Vivek Bhagat, was among a group of Delhi police officials whose...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar has described the terrifying moments when he fought to regain control of himself after being attacked in the cockpit of a flydubai passenger aircraft, saying he realised that he had to get back on his feet because the lives of everyone on board could depend on him. Machchhar, who is recovering in an...