Chatting to a journalist at a recent National Day party in Colombo, a newly arrived high commissioner mentioned that she had not yet presented her credentials. "You'd
A goniometer was used to measure the angle of "fixed deformity" in Muralitharan's elbow…
The recently concluded tour by the Sri Lankan cricket team to Australia
An attempt on the life of a poet lays bare sinister links and madrassah skeletons.
While most people were preparing to celebrate Eid in Dhaka on 18 January, members of
United by language, West Bengal and Bangladesh meet at the Calcutta Book Fair.
A book fair that can make people buy tickets in the black market to avoid the wait
The yearly floods expose Assam's fragile health care system.
As the plane prepared to land at Dibrugarh on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra, Assam looked like an
The World Bank had sent in a speaker to argue its well-known case for building more large dams in South Asia, and there were representative from the governments of Bangladesh,
Vinod Mishra (1947-98)
What Mao Tse-Tung was to the Chinese, Vinod Mishra, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) was for millions in Bihar. And when he died
Little Lanka's investments in sports paid off at the Bangkok Asian Games. Now, its athletes have their sights on the Sydney Olympics next year.
The 13th Asian Games
Can you name a sport that does not require any form of equipment, yet requires a tremendous amount of teamwork? Kabaddi fulfills both criteria and, increasingly, more countries are taking
Twenty-three Pakistani sailors with little food and fuel have been adrift in the Gulf of Mexico since November. After the ship´s owners, Karachi´s Tri-Star Shipping Lines, stopped paying
A Nepali delegate observes a rare get together of Indians and Pakistanis in Peshawar.
The sight at the Atari-Wagah border between the Indian and Pakistani Punjabs was unusual. Pakistani porters
