On 21 February, the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) about measures "aimed at the avoidance of conflict". The signing was greeted
After years of profit-making, smugglers sneaking in gold from Nepal into India had been rendered jobless by the latter's liberalisation of gold imports in 1997. But now things
The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is a killer city and shows no sign of letting up on its homicidal spree. Every day, newspapers report of one death or another as
That a conflict was simmering between the Nawaz Sharif government and the Jang Group of Newspapers, became known to die Pakistani public only after Front-page announcements in two of the
On the surface, it seems that Pakistan is making a comeback into the good hooks of the international financial community. In the third week of January, it received a USD
India With the BJP having come to power at the centre, and having emerged as a formidable force all over North India, Christians are now fast joining Muslims and Dalits
The Kilinochchi disaster in September 1998 was the exclamation mark at the end of the Sri Lankan government's failed strategy to capture the Jaffna-Vavuniya highway, help Tamil moderates
"There was no reason for the police to shoot at all. We were just demonstrating on the streets, when all of a sudden, bullets began raining down on us.
