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THE ABC’s South Asia correspondent Peter Lloyd is facing drugs charges after being arrested in Singapore.
The 41-year-old was arrested earlier this week and is expected to be charged with drug-related offences today.He faces up to 20 years jail and 15...
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A youth, dejected after his marriage proposal was turned down, threw acid on four girls early Thursday in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur town, about 400 kms from here, the...
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No other case in recent times has created so much of flutter and hogged so much of media highlight.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has...
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“Rezaul Islam and Zainal Abedin were near the barbed wire fencing in Panchpirtala border area around 5am. At the time, BSF members from Moshrumpur border opened...
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The Shiv Sena claims the 17th century Taj Mahal is an ancient Shiva temple. On Monday, they tried to enter the marble mausoleum but were prevented.
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Indian folk music is changing rhythm to please the global village. Boatman’s songs and Bihu festival tunes from Assam are being reset to the beats of techno-pop and...
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The Department of Posts has started a pilot project, christened ”Arrow,” in which about 200 post offices would be e-enabled so that these can act as the ‘Window...
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Assam has earned the dubious distinction of being the most corrupt State in the country, on the basis of corruption in 11 vital services. Corruption level was alarming...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that a proposed U.S.-India nuclear energy deal is good for both countries and for global efforts to reduce the spread...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the U.S. deal with India on nuclear energy cooperation will be good for both countries and for global efforts to prevent the...
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Guwahati, July 24, 2008
Continuing their hunger strike for the last ten days, the All Assam Blind Students Union members today being arrested when came to the capital...
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By Vincent Van Ross
Who says miracles don’t happen? It happened here—in Delhi—on July 12 this year!
Supratim Dutta, a 23-year old executive of HCL met with an...
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I am bemused by varieties of reaction to the cash in the Parliament episode. I am not shocked. I am told by the media that this has happened before in our parliament...
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Hindu women who prayed their husbands lived till the times water flowed in the Holy Ganga may no more sing the song–Ganga maiyya main jab tak ke pani rahe, mere...
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This presents photographs (listed below) that show the Vedic influence found in such buildings as the Taj Mahal, Red Fort, and other structures in India. It also...
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The government has had its cake and is eating it too. It’s staying in power and movement on the nuclear deal has also been put on a fast track.
Not even 24 hours...
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Good Morning everyone and thank you for giving me this chance to speak to you. This day is about you. You, who have come to this college, leaving the comfort of your...
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If we will go back few years from now and compare the world at that time and what it is now, we will see we have come a long way in short span...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today went to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee this morning following the situation arising out of Chatterjee’s expulsion...
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BSNL is poised to launch a telecom expansion overdrive in rural India. The government owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has unveiled a majestic plan to expand in rural...
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Communist Party of India General Secretary A B Bardhan on Thursday said that Bahujan Samaj Party chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will be the prime...
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As children we were told we always have a good angel looking over us, guiding us in our deeds and directing us if we commit a mistake. Quite recently the residents of...
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Pakistan and Afghanistan have been one of the oldest neighbors in the history of South Asia having a long and important history of friendships, enmities and alienation;...
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The collected short stories of Australia’s David Malouf and a fictionalized tribute to Charles Dickens set in the South Pacific were among the finalists announced...
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Of late, the hottest topic is the greenhouse effect. We have been discussing the way outs like cutting on cars, turning to bicycles again, clear-felling forests,...
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The University of Dhaka in the capital of Bangladesh appears quite serene and placid at first glance. With its stately, tree-lined campus and the atmosphere of a truly...
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The year 2007 has witnessed a series of timorous weather discrepancies, be it flooding in Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States or scorching heat-waves in...
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South Asia is facing the worst ever environment fury, with incessant rains, devastating storms, and destructive flooding risking life at par. To the dismay of the...
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During the SAARC summit, the member countries had decided to develop and promote tourism among member countries. Now, India has decided to develop Buddhism as a big...
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The most successful guerrilla outfit and a declared terrorist organization has alarmed observers around the world with its small ‘Air Force.’
LTTEs light...
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March 8, marks, the International Womens Day, a day that is celebrated each year particularly, is a time for asserting women’s political and social rights and...
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Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they...
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Education has become universal in the sense that many universities are opening up its horizons globally so that students from all across the world could take benefit of...
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Fact stating that South Asians are more vulnerable to heart risk, even after immigrating to western countries, is deplorable. Here is the wrap up of the fulgent issues...
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Global warming is alarmingly melting the remote Himalayan glaciers. And this phenomenon is threatening the great life-giving rivers for one of South Asia’s most...
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It seems dengue is spreading in south Asia very expeditiously and now after India this deadly disease is on its way to Indias neighboring country Pakistan. By now,...
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has published a report named as the State of the World Population 2006. The report is focused on migration and trafficking...
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Indias economy is booming high but at the same time, the healthcare, education, water, power and transport system are deteriorating badly. According to the World Bank...
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