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Bangladeshi Children Enact Mock Scene Of Killing To Observe Martyr’s Day In Dhaka

Bangladeshi Children Enact Mock Scene Of Killing To Observe Martyr’s Day In Dhaka

Children of Khelaghor organizations stage a mock scene of killings of Bangladeshi intellectual people to observe Martyr’s Day, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. Bangladesh remembers country’s intellectuals who were killed on this day during the country’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971. A Bangladeshi boy enacts a hanging scene during a function to […]

Heavy Snowfall In Srinagar, India, Suspended National Highway

Heavy Snowfall In Srinagar, India, Suspended National Highway

Two horses graze in a snow-covered field after a brief snowfall on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. Traffic on the 300 kilometers (188 miles) long Jammu-Srinagar national highway was suspended due to heavy snowfall according to news reports. A Kashmiri Muslim walks over snow covered field after a brief snowfall on […]

Bangladesh politics sliding down to violent course

Bangladesh politics sliding down to violent course

Dhaka–The killers are unleashed on street amidst political confrontations leading to large scale violence, arson, firing and killing. The political situation suddenly turned violent last week with the opposition enforcing a country-wide road blockade followed by a full-day and a subsequent half-day shutdown throughout the country. Things could have been largely peaceful if the ruling […]

Shootout In Quetta, Pakistan, Leaves Three Dead, Three Others Injured

Shootout In Quetta, Pakistan, Leaves Three Dead, Three Others Injured

An injured man is carried into an ambulance following a shootout in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta on Dec. 13, 2012. At least three people were killed and three others were injured in different fire incidents in Quetta on Thursday, local media reported. Security officers inspect the shootout site in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta on Dec. 13, 2012. […]

Indians Pay Tribute To Legendary Sitar Player Who Died At Age Of 92

Indians Pay Tribute To Legendary Sitar Player Who Died At Age Of 92

A portrait of legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar is placed under a tree as part of a makeshift memorial at his music center, in New Delhi, India , Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Shankar, who is credited with connecting the world to Indian music, died Tuesday in San Diego at the age of 92. <AP/NEWSis/Manish […]

Chinese Young Couples Rush To Get Married On “Triple 12 Day” For Good Luck

Chinese Young Couples Rush To Get Married On “Triple 12 Day” For Good Luck

A young couple show their marriage certificates at a civil affairs bureau in Zaozhuang City, east China’s Shandong Province, Dec. 12, 2012. Young couples across the country rushed to get married on Dec, 12, 2012, or 12/12/12, hoping that the “triple 12 day” will bring them good luck. In Chinese, the number 12 is pronounced […]

Indian Students Vow To End Practice Of Aborting Female Fetuses In Mumbai

Indian Students Vow To End Practice Of Aborting Female Fetuses In Mumbai

Indian students hold placards as they take an oath vowing to eliminate the practice of aborting female fetuses in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. In India, daughters are often seen as a burden because tradition requires that a bride’s family pay the groom’s family a large dowry of cash and gifts. Women’s education is […]

Nepal Hindu Devotees Celebrate Bala Chaturdasi Festival At Temple In Katmandu

Nepal Hindu Devotees Celebrate Bala Chaturdasi Festival At Temple In Katmandu

Nepalese Hindu devotees light oil lamps during the Bala Chaturdasi festival at the Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Bala Chaturdashi is celebrated in memory of departed family members by lighting oil lamps and scattering seven types of grain along a prescribed route. <AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha>

Bangladesh’s Opposition Activists Confront Police At Entrance Of Their Office

Bangladesh’s Opposition Activists Confront Police At Entrance Of Their Office

Bangladesh’s opposition Nationalist Party activists, background, sit at the entrance of their office as they are prevented from stepping out by police, foreground, during a nationwide strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Explosions of homemade bombs were reported across the Bangladeshi capital Tuesday as opposition activists enforcing a daylong general strike rioted and […]

Indians Gather To Set World Record Of Singing National Anthem By Largest Number Of People

Indians Gather To Set World Record Of Singing National Anthem By Largest Number Of People

In this Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012 photo, an Indian man holds the national flag as he along with others gathers to sing the countrys national anthem in Kanpur, India. According to the organizers the event was attended by more than 1,25,000 people in an attempt to break a world record of maximum number of people […]

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