After national elections in February 2008, optimism in Pakistan was brimming over. Perhaps nowhere did the elections have a more immediate impact than in Balochistan, the province that has been
Indian officials and administrators continue to plan ineffective flood-protection interventions along the Kosi, even though there is a straightforward solution.
Two little boys – one brimming with curiosity, the other a bit fearful – peep through a gaping hole in a wall, the result of a bomb blast on a police post
Like the vagaries of nature, rivers too cannot be understood in isolation.
The Kosi River breached its eastern embankment at Kusaha in eastern Nepal on 18 August 2008, flooding the
The old man holds Syed Mohsin's hand in both of his, bends low, and touches it to his forehead. Assalamu alaikum, he greets, then backs away. Mohsin is
The small but important improvements achieved in maternal mortality in Afghanistan over the past seven years are being threatened by increasing instability.
The very thought of being huddled together with scores of others in an airtight container, aboard a stinking fishing vessel or cargo transporter while on a seemingly endless journey – this
The 8 October 2005 earthquake killed more than 73,000 people in Pakistan-administrated Kashmir and the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), but the after-effects could be said to be equally catastrophic.
On 12 September, a huge rally of indigenous people from more than 15 villages around Dhurli, in Dantewara District of Chhattisgarh, marched to the offices of the district administration in
