Polling for Afghanistan's presidential and provincial council elections is slated for 20 August, against a backdrop of increasing and unprecedented violence that is putting more Afghans at risk
Throughout the years of the island's ethnic conflict, successive governments of Sri Lanka maintained that the war was against the LTTE and not the Tamil people. As such,
As of 21 July, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a total of 700 deaths from 'swine flu', since the new virus was first identified in late April
Medical testing by Western countries is having a staggering impact on India, if only we were to care to pay attention. And the government's own policies are encouraging
Who knows how the bearded man got here to Dhanusha, in the southeastern plains of Nepal. But he told the villagers he was from Bangladesh. Before he was lynched.
Some
Despite having put through the first progressive drugs legislation in Southasia back in 1982, Bangladesh has fallen behind on the promise of its pharmaceutical policy
Shadow War:
The untold story of jihad in Kashmir
by Arif Jamal
Melville House Publishing, 2009
The Limits of Influence:
America's role in Kashmir
by Howard B Schaffer
The Carvaka school of philosophy offered some of the first rationalist opposition to the otherworldly tendencies of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Through the ages, various societies have sparkled with bursts of
Inscriptions on Pakistani trucks offer a key to understanding the popular worldview on the ground, and it is different from what the world hears about Pakistan.
