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Benjamin Parkin

South Asia Correspondent

Benjamin Parkin is a correspondent for the Financial Times in New Delhi, covering South Asia. He started with the FT in 2019 and was previously based in Mumbai. Before that he worked for the Wall Street Journal.
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  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    Asia-Pacific economy
    India and south Asia forecast to grow more quickly than other regions

    World Bank praises countries for strong fundamentals but says hitting development targets still ‘a long way to go’

    Gantries at an Indian port
  • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh pushes back at US over visa curbs ahead of election

    Washington says restrictions are targeted at politicians and others found to be undermining democratic process

    Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina
  • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
    Currencies
    Afghan currency posts world-beating rally in third quarter

    Aid inflows and Taliban currency controls help afghani climb almost 10%

    Taliban members march in celebration in Kabul in August on the second anniversary of the fall of the Afghan capital to its fighters
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Indian business & finance
    India hits fantasy sports sector with back taxes in escalating battle

    Gaming companies receive demands for hundreds of millions of dollars

    A person uses a Dream11 app on a smartphone
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka fails to reach agreement to unlock next IMF bailout tranche

    Delay threatens to slow country’s recovery from the worst economic crisis in its history

    University lecturers hold up signs saying Stop the Unfair Taxation
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    InterviewOleg Deripaska
    Russia has proved resilient to western sanctions, says Deripaska

    Metals oligarch tells FT of his ‘surprise’ at performance of economy in wake of invasion of Ukraine

    Oleg Deripaska
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    The Big Read
    India’s dream of green energy runs into the reality of coal

    The fossil fuel accounts for around three-quarters of power generation and demand is expected to grow, despite an ambitious renewables plan

  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    World Health Organization
    Push by Bangladesh PM’s daughter for WHO role raises transparency concerns

    Saima Wazed is one of only two nominees to lead UN health body in south-east Asia

    US president Joe Biden, Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her daughter Saima Wazed and first lady Jill Biden in New York on Tuesday
  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
    News in-depthIndian election
    ‘The credit will go to Modi’: India’s PM seeks G20 boost in upcoming elections

    Ruling Bharatiya Janata party exploits global spotlight to kick off campaign for regional and national polls

    India’s prime minister Narendra Modi waves to media representatives during the G20 summit in New Delhi
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    News in-depthBarrick Gold Corp
    Miners’ hunt for copper takes Barrick to Pakistan’s western frontier

    Reko Diq has potential to be one of world’s biggest suppliers of metal needed for energy transition

    Local government officials visit the gold and copper mine site in the town of Reko Diq in Pakistan
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Pakistan
    Pakistan roiled by protests over surging electricity costs

    Popular anger threatens to derail crisis-hit country’s $3bn IMF programme

    People gather during a protest against the surge in electricity prices along a street in Muzaffarabad on Thursday
  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    Imran Khan
    Pakistan court blocks Imran Khan’s release from prison

    Popular former prime minister fights barrage of legal cases that threaten his political comeback

    Imran Khan
  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    News in-depthIndian politics & policy
    India’s communications ‘backdoor’ attracts surveillance companies

    Little-known Israeli groups emerge as key providers of tracking equipment installed at subsea cable stations

    Montage of Septier logo and communications tower
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    G20
    Major Indian companies push for climate action in letter to G20

    Big polluters and clean tech companies join to call for urgent steps to deal with the ‘unforgiving’ effects of global warming

    Indian prime minister Narendra Modi
  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    The Big Read
    The new contest to land on the Moon

    India’s successful landing is the latest manifestation of renewed interest in lunar exploration, driven both by national pride and strategic considerations

    A mother and her daughter arrive at Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi to watch India’s Moon landing
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    India
    Indian spacecraft makes historic landing at Moon’s South Pole

    Chandrayaan-3 mission gives Narendra Modi a geopolitical boost after Russian crash

    Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    UK trade
    UK-India trade talks intensify in bid to remove ‘significant’ barriers

    Kemi Badenoch seeks progress with New Delhi this week but officials say full agreement unlikely ahead of G20 summit

    Kemi Badenoch
  • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
    Indian economy
    India to expand digital payments with AI-powered voice transactions

    UPI to roll out services targeting rural users with limited internet access and literacy

    A QR code for the Paytm digital payment system at a store in Mumbai, India
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Indian politics & policy
    Indian academics threaten walkout in free speech row

    Ashoka economics professor resigns after paper alleges electoral manipulation in favour of Modi’s BJP

    Students sit on the grass at Ashoka University outside Delhi
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    India
    India’s Modi ‘playing God’ with return of cheetahs

    Prime minister’s prestige project draws accusations of ‘vanity and showmanship’ as big cats die

    A cheetah lies inside a transport cage at the Cheetah Conservation Fund before being relocated to India in Namibia
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Indian politics & policy
    India passes landmark data protection bill

    Country with almost 1bn people connected to the internet has lacked a law regulating sharing of personal information

    Passengers use smartphones while sitting on a platform of a railway station in Mumbai
  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    News in-depthPakistan's politics
    Pakistan election delay raises fears for democracy

    Postponed poll and Imran Khan’s imprisonment deepen political crisis amid economic turmoil

    Supporters wave flags with Khan’s face on them
  • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
    Pakistan's politics
    Pakistan election set for delay as boundaries redrawn

    Move follows jailing of popular opposition leader Imran Khan

    An officer at a prison in Attock, Pakistan, where former prime minister Imran Khan is being held
  • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
    Pakistan's politics
    Pakistan court sentences Imran Khan to 3 years in jail

    Former prime minister taken into custody from his Lahore home after ruling on corruption charges

    Imran Khan
  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Saudi-hosted conference seeks to build support for Ukrainian peace plan

    Kyiv steps up efforts to engage key developing countries in isolating Moscow

    a residential building hit by a Russian missile in Dnipro, Ukraine
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