News and current events related to South Asia and sub-ontinent.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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A band of former soldiers, ex-police personnel and victims of Maoist guerrillas have united in Nepal to form a Hindu army with suicide bombers to fight Islamic and Christian zealots as well as communists. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 29 June 2007 )
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
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Several reports suggest that Pakistan appears to be building a third plutonium production reactor at its Khushab nuclear site in Punjab. This reactor is being built in order to make more powerful atomic bombs in future. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 29 June 2007 )
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
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A group of Pakistani clerics led by a pro-Taliban hard-liner announced that it would confer a title upon al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in response to the UK’s decision to grant knighthood to Salman Rushdie. Pakistan condemned the knighthood for Rushdie, who has been accused of insulting Islam in his novel ‘The Satanic Verses’. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 29 June 2007 )
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
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India has an expanding economy. With the rising incomes and a large population of young people eager to travel, airlines are taking aggressive strategies to attract them for higher revenue. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 29 June 2007 )
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
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Afghanistan is a mountainous, landlocked country in central Asia. Historically, it was a land that never bowed its head to foreign forces. The US invaded Afghan land in 2001 but as of now, could not manage the insurgency though a US minded government is already in place. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 June 2007 )
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
The India-Nepal relations have always been both intimate as well as a complex one. Both economic and political reasons tie these two countries with China’s increasing shadow over it.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 16 June 2007 )
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
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Indian government is now all set to implement its ambitious Rs.50 billion project to help develop India's backward regions and erase regional imbalances. |
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Thursday, 10 May 2007 |
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Pakistan has fenced a part of its 2,500 km (1,500 mile) long and porous border with Afghanistan to prevent incursions by militants, the army said on Thursday, despite opposition from Kabul. |
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
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Pakistan's Supreme Court has suspended a judicial inquiry into allegations that the country's former chief justice abused his office. President Pervez Musharraf dismissed the top judge in March, sparking massive protests around the country. |
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Friday, 02 February 2007 |
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India is considered as a fast moving economy with good potentials in human development. Despite this economic achievement, desperate farmers in some region of the country are committing suicide with the hope of getting relief from their amorous debt and ill-fated life. |
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