An Indian polling officer applies indelible ink mark on voter’s finger
An Indian Muslim woman arrives with her child at a polling station to caste her vote in Bangalore, India, Sunday, May 5, 2013. The southern Indian state of Karnataka which has 41.8 million voters including 21.3 million women headed to the polls Sunday. There are 2948 candidates contesting for 224 seats where about 65,000 electronic […]
Pakistan’s opposition supporters cheer Nawaz Sharif at election campaign
In this Monday, April 29, 2013 photo, Pakistani villagers listen to an activist from the Association for Gender Awareness & Human Empowerment lecturing about the benefits of voting in Mateela village near Sargodha, Pakistan. As the country gets set to vote in the upcoming nationwide election that will see a transfer of power from one […]
Bangladeshi activists throw stones in protest against anti-blasphemy law
Bangladeshi protesters throw stones at policemen during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Police in Bangladesh’s capital fired rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing Islamic activists Sunday during a protest to demand that the government enact an anti-blasphemy law. <AP Photo/Ashraful Alam Tito>
India celebrates 100 years of filmmaking
New Delhi – Four top Indian filmmakers have come together to make “Bombay Talkies,” a film that celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema. The film hits theaters Friday. India’s first full-length feature film, “Raja Harishchandra” or “King Harishchandra,” was released in 1913. That film was produced and directed by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, described […]
The Indian free school founder teaches slum children under bridge
Underprivileged boys take down notes from a blackboard painted on a concrete wall at a free school run under a mass transit bridge in New Delhi, India on Dec. 11, 2012. Rajesh Kumar Sharma, the founder of a free school for slum children, teaches a class at a free school for impoverished children under a […]
Elderly Indian widows pray on bank of Ganga river
An elderly Indian widow cleans rice sitting in the front of her small living quarters in an Ashram, on the bank of Holy river Ganges in Varanasi, India , Sunday, April 28, 2013. In India, being a widow remains one of the worst stigmas. When her husband dies, the widow often becomes a pariah, excluded […]
Bangladesh’s garment industry hit by building collapse
EU considers action as Pope condemns condition of workers as ‘slave labour’ The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building collapse killed more than 400 factory workers. Pope Francis condemned the conditions of workers […]
Pakistani supporters observe 2nd anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death
Supporters of Pakistan’s religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) receive food distributed at a rally to pay tribute to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Quetta, Pakistan on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Hundreds of JUI supporters observed the second anniversary of bin Laden’s death on May 2, 2011 in a secret U.S. Navy SEAL operation in […]
Convicted Indian spy dies from Pakistani jail blow
Pakistani policemen carry the coffin of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who was injured in an attack inside jail last week and died of wounds early Thursday. Singh spent more than 21 years in Pakistan after being convicted of spying for India and involvement in a series of bomb blasts in 1990 in which 14 […]
India’s ruling Congress chief Sonia Gandhi waves to supporters
India’s ruling Congress chief Sonia Gandhi waves to supporters during a campaign rally for the assembly elections at palace ground in Bangalore, India, on May 2, 2013. <Xinhua/stringer>
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