Can India’s government empower its people?
Commercial forestry: A legacy of British rule The Indian politician and the bureaucrat have struggled for the past 65 years to shed the legacy and the mechanisms of British rule and empower the people but have failed…why? As is well known across the world, the regimes of the newly born independent countries, breaking out of […]
Indian Kashmiri Muslim devotees carry out torch light procession
Kashmiri Muslim devotees carry wooden torches as they prepare for a torch light procession on a hilltop near the shrine of Muslim saint Sakhi Zain-ud-din Wali, in Aishmuqaam, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. The farming community in south Kashmir celebrated the festival of lights Thursday to mark […]
Buddha’s lamp carried to Korea to ease tensions
The ‘peace lamp’ kindled in the Buddha’s birthplace Lumbini has been travelling to the nuclear crisis-ridden Korean Peninsula. Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav and the Buddhist community of Lumbini presented a perennial holy peace lamp on April 19 to South Korean Buddhist monks to appease the winds of war between North and South Korea, Nepali […]
Pakistanis gather at bomb blast site that killed 4 people
People gathered at a blast site in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta on April 23, 2013. At least four people were killed and 37 others injured on Tuesday night in a series of bomb blasts followed by a suicide attack in Pakistan’s southwestern provincial capital of Quetta, local media reported. <Xinhua/Mohammad>
Nepal’s former minister is now rearing pigs
Kathmandu – Former Minister Shiva Raj Joshi who spent almost 15 years at the Singh Durbar, the central secretariat of the Nepal government, as a parliamentarian and a minister, is now spending his day at a piggery in a village of south-west Nepal. Accustomed to putting signatures on the piles of files at the ministries, Joshi […]
Bhutanese officials check voting machines for parliamentary election
A polling official in traditional attire accompanied by Royal Bhutan Army soldiers carrying electronic voting machines arrives at a polling center on the eve of polling to the upper house National Council in Samdrup Jonkhar, Bhutan, Monday, April 22, 2013. The small Himalayan country of Bhutan ended more than a century of absolute monarchy by […]
Sri Lankan activists protest steep rise in electricity charges
Activists of Sri Lanka’s Marxist political party People’s Liberation Front shout slogans as they protest the steep rise in electricity charges in Maharagama, a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, April 22, 2013. Placards in Sinhalese read “Entertainment for rulers and Bill for the people”. <AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena>
Realm of status quo heading towards change in Pakistan
Contemplating facts behind low socio-political and economic growth reveals shadows of bad governance anywhere in the world. The same can be considered valid for prevailing conditions in Pakistan as governance has been a pertinent issue behind ever soaring problems faced by the country. A nation with a colossal population of 180 million has a long […]
A Pakistani candidate runs election campaign with supporters
In this Tuesday, April 16, 2013 photo, Maulana Jalil Jan, second right, a candidate of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, is surrounded by supporters while touring a market in Peshawar, Pakistan. <AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad> In this Thursday, April 11, 2013, photo, Pakistani daily laborer, Wakeel Mohammed, 38, who fled Pakistan’s tribal region, due to fighting between the Taliban […]
Indian youths shout slogans during protest against rape of 5-year-old girl
Indian policemen stand behind barricades to block protesters against the rape of a 5-year-old girl near the India Gate monument in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 21, 2013. The girl was raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India’s capital for more than two days. Indian protestors huddle […]
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