The basic premise on which SAARC was founded is clearly showing signs of validation. While shaping the SAARC initiative during the early 1980s, it was assumed that by activating cooperative
SAARC Secretary General Naeem U Hasan assumed office on I January 1996, and has presided over a period when the organisation seems to have, at long last, picked up some
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom rules his atoll nation with a firm hand, but has been credited with bringing unprecedented prosperity to his 250,000 subjects. Today, the Maldives has the best
Colombo has been a traditional friend and New Delhi a friend in need of this strategic yet vulnerable republic, the smallest member of SAARC.
There is no record of when
Forty-five minutes on a flight out of Madras, the southern tip of India comes into view below the right wing. On the other side, a yellow sliver of land
16,000 and Counting…
A fact sheet on the status of victims of the Bhopal Gas Disaster of December 1996 reminds one of the continuing horror of that singular event.
