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Nepal’s King Gyanendra has once again cut off Kathmandu Valley from the rest of the world, snapping all telephone links, in a chilling repetition of last year when he staged a coup and unleashed a series of draconian curbs.
People of the valley,...
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Controversy regarding textbooks on Indian history is also raging in California (USA) with academicians alleging that changes made on the behest of Hindu organisations have resulted in hiding “true history”.
Hindu organisations mainly The...
The Indonesian military used starvation as a weapon to exterminate the East Timorese, according to a UN report documenting the deaths of as many as 180,000 civilians at the hands of the occupying forces.
The 2500-page report, obtained by The...
Respect for human rights in Asia has been seriously eroded over the past year. With some governments committing the worst abuses, US-based Human Rights Watch reported on January 18. Highlighting violations in Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri...
Scandinavian officials entrusted with monitoring a fragile cease-fire in Sri Lanka became the target of attack for the first time late on January 13 when one of the group’s vehicles was blown up in its compound, the latest act in a slow but steady...
Fresh violence erupted in at least three districts of the Himalayan state,Nepal, sandwitched between two mighty neighbours India and China, with at least 30 people, including Maoists rebels and security men, feared killed on January 14.
The guerrillas...
Ramzan Kadyrov, the first deputy prime minister of Chechnya in Russia, said that because the decade-long separatist war in the republic had taken a toll on its male population, men there should be legally allowed to have several wives.
In an interview...
Pakistani sources are beleived to have informed US officials that Ayman al-Zawahiri might have been killed. At the same time, Pakistan has categorically denied that the number 2 in the dreaded Al-Qaeda died in the CIA airstrikes by unmanned predator...
Iran’s stubborn attitude on nuclear installations and the vehement opposition by the West to the resumption of nuclear research by Iran seems to a game in which all the players including Iran are playing to the gallery.
Israel too has drawn up...
In a significant development, Hamas, an extremist organisation in Palestine has droppted its call for the destruction of Israel from its manifesto for the coming parliamentary election. The move is considered a step towards the mainstream Palestinian...
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