Investors will watch India's budget closely for an early indication of whether Modi can adapt to coalition politics, while continuing infrastructure spending, fiscal consolidation and business-friendly reforms | ft.com/content/5282c4… w/Benjamin Parkin jyotsna singh

India’s Narendra Modi faces budget demands from ‘kingmaker’ allies ft.com/content/5282c4… w/jyotsna singh Chris Kay

Bangladesh garment sector rocked by protest crackdown ft.com/content/486d83… w/ Chan Ho-him William Langley

Background to departure of long-serving Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina from Benjamin Parkin: 'Hatred of her rivals has morphed into a broader assault on democracy' on.ft.com/48KX94D via @financialtimes

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigns as protests escalate ft.com/content/fbc835… w/John Reed जॉन रीड

#Bangladesh protesters back Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus - Sheikh Hasina's bete noire - for a government role ft.com/content/9a60a9… With Benjamin Parkin Lucy Fisher via @ft

Our Financial Times account of the day that brought down Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina ft.com/content/d9742f… w/John Reed जॉन रीड

“Would you do business with someone who has barged into your turf?” But can India’s economy thrive without China’s help? Even after restricting Chinese investment, Indian firms remain dependent on their imports. Latest Financial Times Big Read w/John Reed जॉन रीड ft.com/content/5a2b44…

Nita Ambani is putting herself front and centre in Paris and “branding herself as the face of #India’s Olympic campaign”, ⁦Benjamin Parkin⁩ ⁦Chris Kay⁩ and ⁦Josh Noble⁩ report. ft.com/content/4aa4e7…

Our Financial Times story on Nita Ambani's Olympic publicity blitz and what it says about the growing influence of tycoons over public life in India on.ft.com/3AcF97A w/Chris Kay Josh Noble

India’s Bangladesh bet backfires after Sheikh Hasina ousted on.ft.com/3WBhghw w/John Reed जॉन रीड

My Financial Times dispatch from Dhaka, a megacity of over 20mn being run by students since the ousting of Bangladesh's leader Sheikh Hasina on.ft.com/4cfr2eU

"Dhaka has turned into Gotham" We go on night patrol with the vigilantes protecting their neighbourhoods since the collapse of Sheikh Hasina's regime in Bangladesh ft.com/content/e0997f…

On Dhaka's streets and inside the interim government they ushered in after unseating Sheikh Hasina, students are scripting new beginnings for Bangladesh and trying to shed the horror and pain of a crackdown against them that killed hundreds. apnews.com/article/bangla…

Blindfolded and bundled out of his secret prison, Ahmad Bin Quasem held his breath and waited to be shot. Instead, he was tossed from a car and into a muddy ditch on Dhaka's outskirts, with no knowledge of the national upheaval that prompted his release. rfi.fr/en/internation…

Exclusive: Top fashion brands are shifting orders away from Bangladesh amid the turmoil that surrounded the government's collapse, manufacturers say. Winter season deliveries are delayed and factories owned by suppliers to H&M, Zara etc were torched on.ft.com/3SNZoih

Foreign investors pull out of frothy Indian equity market. “Clearly in the traditional sense there are no pockets of value as such, multiples are elevated” | on.ft.com/471uclD w/Arjun Neil Alim via Financial Times

Slow internet speeds & disruptions hurt Pakistan's IT companies, rattling investors in one of the country’s few standout sectors, report John Reed जॉन रीड Humza Jilani Connectivity is “by far the worst it has been in the last 12 months”, says TRG head on.ft.com/3T2NalN

New: #Russia built covert trade channel with #India, leaks reveal ft.com/content/101afc… via @ft

“The Taliban may not be the most astute diplomats, but they have been able to take advantage of the global situation" Taliban’s closer ties with UAE signal global divide over Afghan regime ft.com/content/b57c4a… w/Chloe Cornish