In May last year, newspapers in Bangladesh reported that a teenager had been killed along the country's northwestern border with India. Sixteen-year-old Hasibul Islam was shot dead at
On the morning of 28 January 1754, an exceptional Englishman sat down at the desk in the library of his gothic mansion, Strawberry Hill, to attend to his correspondence. It
The fraud charges against the Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services – India's fourth-largest software firm – has shocked international businesses, rattled India's stock market, jolted regulators and displaced confidence
"Resources are not well-enough spent. We all see it and we should address it," Kai Eide, the UN Secretary-General's new Special Representative to Afghanistan, noted at
Burma/China
Best left untravelled
Even for Burma's miniscule tourism industry, 2008 was a particularly bad year. With the devastating Cyclone Nargis (in May) coming on the heels
Citing fantastic evidence, Prof A.D.T.E. Perera writes in the Colombo Island that Jerusalem´s famous Dome of the Rock, holy of holies to Islam and Christendom, is
Who´s to evaluate the real sons for the paradox between high human development indexes and suicide rates, as reported by Bharat Dogra in his never-say-die feature service, News From
An adult woman, well-educated by Pakistani standards, left her parents declaring that she wished to live with the man she had quietly married. For reasons of security, the woman, 22-year-old
Two good pictures by Reuters referring back to Prez Clinton´s trip to India in late March. One, a picture of Bill by the Taj, speaking on clean energy and
