Competition is heating up between the world's two biggest aircraft manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, for a larger slice of the estimated USD 4 billion in orders from South
The internal airways of India, Pakistan and Nepal are in ferment as infant carriers grapple for a toehold in a market that might just expand beyond all expectation.
The domestic
South Asian countries have allowed private airlines to fly domestic routes, but the winds of liberalisation have not yet wafted over the region's international carriers. It is still
A cantonment mentality, and fear of India keep the Pakistan military´s coffers full
Two years ago, when India´s former Chief of Army Staff General K. Sunderji met with
Afghanistan´s child mortality rate is second from the bottom, only Sierra Leone´s is worse. A Nepali woman is more likely to die at childbirth than a woman in
As squabbling politicians paralyse the country, will popular demand bring the army out of the barracks?
For a company that once ousted both the party presently in power as well
Nepal has not fought a war since 1856. Of course, as Gurkhas (Gorkhas), hill people from Nepal have fought and died in other peoples´ wars. But, it has been a
South Asia is just not prepared to enter the 21st century. It does not invest enough in its people.
The rest of the world is heading towards peace and prosperity,
India is not really over-spending on arms, say New Delhi analysts. Besides, the neighbours are belligerent.
The obscure district of Purulia in the rural backwaters of West Bengal had its
In the side street of Kabul, the angry crowd had been gathering since nightfall. Daggers drawn, they advanced menacingly up to the gates of the mission. Taking cover of darkness,
There are many wild areas of Nepal that urgently require protection. Milke Danda in the eastern hills is one such place, a place of rare beauty, repository of the rhododendron.
