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By V Radhika Amrit and Rabindra Kaur Singh are identical twins that is genetically ordained. Their identical clothes, accessories, footwear and paintings under ...
By Sabita Majid Despite years of publicity on marriage below 18 years being illegal in India, the tradition of early marriage continues in several states. And u...
By Najam Sethi Pakistan's nuclear programme and scientists are in the gun-sights of the sole superpower. Allegations of wrongdoing (proliferation) are slowly ha...
By Swapna Majumdar In Bangladesh, women tend to visit their parental homes more frequently during the 'hungry season'. If no such trend has been observed in Ind...
Inder Malhotra IT is surely arguable that the public opinion poll predicting a comfortable majority for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a tad too earl...
By Suhas Chakma The government of India in a "memorandum of action taken" of December 2003 on the 2001-02 annual report of the National Human Rights Commission ...
By M.K. Dhar Even though South Asian countries have agreed to put in place the mechanism to promote free trade amongst themselves, it is still doubtful if they ...
By Najam Sethi President Pervez Musharraf should be pleased as punch. In one month, he has had two brushes with death and lived to tell the tale. He has resolve...
The war in Iraq goes on and what can one say? Ancient Rome had gladiator fights in the arena and in the twenty first century we witness a 'gladiator' fight on o...
Who could have imagined that after thirteen centuries (1323 years to be exact) another Karbla would be enacted at that very place in Iraq? I have paid my homage...
For your Eid greetings, we are indeed greatly indebted. And thank you for telling us, one more time, that your new war is not against Islam and Muslims. It was ...
AFTER decades of rule or misrule, if you like by the National Conference in Jammu-Kashmir, the State has a new Government, the People's Democratic Party-Congres...
While the ascendance of the religious parties in provinces bordering Afghanistan is a cause of worry politically, these results come as a particular blow to the...
THE late Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former President of India and a widely respected commentator on Hinduism and Hindu philosophy, has said in one of his essays ...
The only new thing which Parvez Musharraf, the President of Paki-stan, said in his address to the nation, was that India was indulging in terrorist activities w...
To celebrate the downfall of the Taliban rule, it is reported that the Afghan women happily threw off their burqa. Burqa in the Taliban rule was not just a piec...
At a time when the Indian Government had been trying to push through Parliament, a Bill aimed at preventing terrorism, the fierce gun battle of December 13 that...
Things done by halves are never done right. So true of most things political. The latest in this string of a half-baked decisions in everything and anything und...
The Supreme Court "respectfully returned" the presidential reference on the J&K Resettlement Act on November 8. The reference was made by the then President Gia...
New opportunities and new challenges The American invasion of land-locked Afghanistan, from across half the world in many ways. Never were so many eyes focussed...