The surrender of a professional murderer is bad news for several Bangladeshi police officers and politicians.
He has possibly killed more people than any other pro fessional criminal in Bangladesh.
It was perhaps the ghastliest news of the year. On 3 December, newspapers in Pakistan went to town about the killings of around 100 children by a sodomite. The news
It was following the decline of the north country that the kings of Tibet came to dominate the entire plateau. Sallying forth from their strongholds in the south of the
Fifty-four years after his mysterious disappearance in an air crash in Taiwan in 1945, controversy continues over the 'death' of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Generation after generation of
If the Pardhi tribespeople are genetically criminals, then those who see them so are genetically colonised.
In 1932, a British army officer, Lieutenant-General Sir George MacMunn, wrote a book called
For long years, the rest of India and the Western world identified Bengali cinema with either the pain and poverty of Satyajit Ray's pathbreaking Pather Panchall or with
Once upon a time, Malayalam cinema played to the tunes of the incredible hero, the ever-green Prem Nazir, who never tired of wooing heroines, running around trees with damsels half
Mid-shot of a row of men sitting and looking bored in the middle of nowhere in Bangladesh. Camera pans the faces.
It was raining hard as they trudged through the
Pink-cheeked, top-hatted schoolboys walking across vast playing fields surrounded by medieval stone buildings: surely that's what Eton Hall is all about? Wrong. Eton Hall is a concrete suburban
A controversial power plant pits a bishop's word against a president's silence.
Sri Lanka's most senior Catholic bishop recently made a startling announcement at
Mega projects and Nawaz Sharif seem to be made for each other. Sharif has to his credit a 16-billion-rupee yellow cab scheme and a 40-billion-rupee Lahore-Islamabad motorway. And now he
When it snowed in Moscow, overcoats would come out in Karachi. No longer.
There used to be a time when the village Bulhereji near Mohenjodaro in Pakistan's Sindh
