Hindu devotees gather at a temple in Mumbai to celebrate Maha Shivaratri festival
Hindu devotees queue to attend an event at the Babulnath Temple in Mumbai, India, March 10, 2013. A lot of Hindu devotees gathered at the Babulnath Temple Sunday to offer milk and flowers to celebrate the Maha Shivaratri festival. Maha Shivaratri which can be translated into “great night of Lord Shiva” marks the night when […]
A Pakistani girl lights candles during a vigil for the bombing victims
A Pakistani Shiite Muslim girl lights candles during a vigil for the 45 victims killed in a massive bombing last weekend in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on March 8, 2013. About 397 people were killed and over 800 others injured in many bomb blasts that ripped through different areas across Pakistan during the […]
Indian police chase lawyers during a protest over stipend in Jaipur
Indian policemen chase down lawyers during a protest in Jaipur, India, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Agitating lawyers, irked over police action against them during a march to the Rajasthan state assembly, damaged a vehicle and a check post during a clash between them Thursday. The protesters demand inclusion of monthly stipend for new practicing lawyers […]
Members of a Nepal Maoist faction stage anti-gov’t protest in Katmandu
Members of the splinter faction of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist shout slogans against the government during a general strike Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The strike called to protest the decision to form an interim government led by the Supreme Court chief justice disrupted normal life in the city. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Niranjan […]
Pakistani arts students take part in a street painting competition in Lahore
Pakistani students paint a wall along a street in eastern Pakistan’s Lahore, March 6, 2013. More than 200 art students and youths participated in a street art painting competition run by a local youth organization with the aim of improving the city vista. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Sajjad>
An Indian woman works as porter, a man’s job, at Bhavnagar railway station
An Indian woman working as a porter, traditionally a man’s job in India, transports the luggage of a passenger at the Bhavnagar railway station in Gujarat state, India, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Bhavnagar’s tradition of women porters began in 1880 when the King of Bhavnagar, Krishna Pratapsingh, decided to employ women porters at the station. […]
An Indian guard examines body of elephant killed by a speeding train near Alipurduar
An Indian forest guard walks past the body of an elephant that was killed after being hit by a speeding train at the Buxa Tiger Reserve, near Alipurduar in West Bengal state, India, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. <AP Photo/NEWSis>
A Pakistani boy sleeps in a brick factory paying him less than $3 cents a day
A Pakistani child sleeps on the ground between the bricks, while his mother, not pictured, works in a brick factory on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. According to workers at the factory, adults earn 350 Rupees ($3.57 cents), while children earn 250 Rupees ($2.55 cents), per day. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Muhammed Muheisen>
Policewomen counter a strike called over death penalty on Muslim leader in Dhaka
Bangladeshi women police officers stand guard in front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) office during a nationwide strike called by BNP in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. In the past one week over 60 people died in Bangladesh in the mayhem over the death penalty given to Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a top leader […]
A Hindu holy man rests at a temple in Katmandu as its religious festival approaches
A Hindu Holy man rests at Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 4, 2013. Hindus across the world will be celebrating the Hindu religious festival of Mahashivratri, or night of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction on March 10. A Hindu holy man mixes vermillion powder at the Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu, Nepal, […]
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