NDTV's monopoly over the English-speaking classes in India is over. Ten months after it was launched, India Broadcast News (IBN), in collaboration with CNN, has decisively emerged as
Nepal / Bhutan Washington, Thimphu, Kathmandu Nepal in recent weeks has seen a series of high-level visits by US senators and Congressmen. Interestingly, each of these delegations spent a substantial portion
The Indian government and big newspaper houses have long resisted foreign investment in media. But the Western media conglomerate camel already has its nose in the Bharatiya tent, and before
India / Bangladesh Farakka's impending fiasco The controversial Farakka Barrage in West Bengal, which diverts waters from the Ganga into its tributary, the Bhagirathi, is in danger of being
The conflict contractors that are parachuting down on Kathmandu to partake of the expected peace dividend tend to be derisive of the terminology used by the locals to define the
Kuensel, from Thimphu, reports a Dr Ross McDonald from the University of Auckland suggesting at a media conference in early July that "Bhutan should consider banning all advertising."
The Southasian habit of thrift – not wanting a good deal on a mobile phone to pass by – seems to have gotten Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef into deep trouble. Charged with
Burma
Gambari and Burma's neighbours
During the second week of July, the UN secretary-general's special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, held a series of high-level meetings
The Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 saw massive migration, as well as the slaughter of at least half a million on both sides of the border. No one
Don't commit nuisance: the message painted on the city walls intrigued me when I was a child. 'Nuisance', I remember finding out in the dictionary, meant
