When smart-talking Ram Sharan Mahat finally quit on 31 July, with some opposition prodding, he became Nepal´s first-ever Finance Minister to resign over allegations of "financial irregularity"
Many years ago, when the boot was on another foot, Aththa (truth or pravda), the Sri Lanka Communist Party´s daily newspaper, railed at the press censorship imposed by the
The mysterious bomb blasts that have been rocking Pakistan´s most populous province of the Punjab over the last few months are cause for great concern. The terrorists have so
The new government of Sheikh Hasina Wajed has increased the allocation for the military by six percent over last year´s budget. Defence expenditure now stands at more than 20
Bollywood, as even its most ardent admirers will admit, definitely has a touch of the bizarre. Exaggerated portrayals of personalities are the norm rather than the exception. But what if
All the major trade unions, federations, labour support organisations from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal who gathered for´ the first time in Kathmandu in end-May agreed on one
The root problem of divisiveness in the Subcontinent stems from the arrogant assumption of the contemporary (Aryan) exponents of aggressive Hinduism that they speak for the whole of India.
For
The national-level politicians and political parties have failed Nepal, oblivious as they are of cynicism and desperation that is developing countrywide.
The national-level politicians and political parties have failed Nepal,
Druk Yul, the Kingdom of Bhutan, is within striking distance of what all South Asian countries want-development But now it has an unsettling refugee problem on its hands.
Less than
These purveyors of the pastoral dream have a hidden neocolonialist agenda. Having achieved the highest levels of development in the West they want to freeze underdeveloped countries in pastoral poverty.
Pakistan has the dubious distinction of being the world´s second-most corrupt nation, after Nigeria, according to the findings of the Berlin-based non¬governmental organisation Transparency International (TI). TI´s
