In recent years, the Sri Lankan economy has been increasingly looking towards the East. This policy trend first became evident during the height of the war in 2007 as the
On 4 January, Punjab province Governor Salman Taseer was killed by a member of his security detail, Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri. But as disturbing as the assassination itself were the
The confessional statement of Swami Asseemanand – a self-styled godman, originally Jatin Chatterji from Hooghly district in West Bengal – has finally put to rest lingering doubts, if any credible ones
If familiarity really does breed fondness, CP is in real danger of falling madly in love with Mahinda Rajapaksa;he seems to keep doing things that cannot be ignored.Though
When a cotton bud blossoms
It prays and groans
Don't let me turn
Into a killer's uniform
– Punjabi poet Surjit Patar
Surendra Mohan
When Surendra Mohan
BURMA
Deep-sea ventures
Officials in Burma and Thailand are planning to develop a new deepwater port near Dawei, a port city in the Taninthanyi division, south of Rangoon. In
In recent weeks, the ripples of the '2G' scam in India – over parcelling out contracts for bandwidths of 'second–generation' wireless technologies – have spread ever wider.
The surge in cross-Southasian commerce, which could be of great benefit to the peoples across the region, has yet to happen, even if the economic logic is clear enough.
Over the course of human history, intellectuals and artists have helped broaden the scope of citizenship and the nebulous contours of citizen rights. Southasia is no exception. Despite its colonial
Do the Afghan national security forces have the necessary capacity to take over security operations from the international military forces stationed in Afghanistan? It depends on who is asking. In
INDIA
To the pole!
India launched its first-ever scientific research mission to the South Pole in November. A team of eight scientists from the Goa-based National Centre for
