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President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he would support India’s attempt to get on the United Nations’ Security Council. Speaking in Mumbai, on the first leg of his ten-day tour of South Asia, he emphasized India’s...
The Pakistan floods have affected over 21 million people Pakistan In Crisis The last three years have been tumultuous for Pakistan. In 2006, a coalition between exiled former presidents Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto promised to bring democracy...
Plans by a small Florida church to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks have drawn a strong response across the world. Pastor Terry Jones of the non-denominational Dove World Outreach Center, the man behind the idea,...
After days of cancellations, about half of Europe’s 27,500 flights are expected to be airborne today. The delays come after the Eyjafjallajökull volcano is Iceland erupted on March 29th this year, spewing an ash cloud into the atmosphere...
An American Hindu priest. Some Hindu communities in rural India have faced strange troubles lately. The changing face of elections U.S presidential elections are known, among other things, for elaborate campaigns. Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign...
How do you count 1.2 billion people? It’s census time. In the United States, people have been filling out and mailing forms, in addition to being interviewed by officials from the Department of Census. The feat of carrying out a survey...
Click to enlarge. At around 7:30 am local time, twin bombs hit Moscow’s metro station, leaving at least 38 people dead and many more injured. The attacks, which occurred during peak traffic time on one of the world’s busiest metro-systems...
Of Journeys and Apathy Recently, there was a story in the news of an Afghan teenager who fled his troubled homeland eight years ago to seek asylum in London. His extraordinary modern-day odyssey saw him travel illegally in a truck through Moscow,...