Category: South Asia
Excavation likely to locate Kapilavastu, the ancient Shakya kingdom in Nepal
The ongoing excavation in Tilaurakot, the capital of ancient Shakya kingdom, is likely to prove with scientific evidences that the palace of king Suddhodhana was in Kapilvastu of Nepal. Lord […]
Taekwondo gains popularity in Bangladesh
Taekwondo, the Korean martial art, is now a very well known name in the sports arena of Bangladesh. Other martial arts such as Judo and Karate have existed in Bangladesh […]
[Books] Israel, living on the edge
[BOOKS] My Promised Land The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel By Ari Shavit | Spiegel & Grau | 2013 Winner of the Natan Book Award, My Promised Land, by […]
Makli: Withering necropolis of Sindh
Maintenance of world heritage sites is an international issue. A great part of history is in danger if we do not make effort to preserve it, even if not in […]
Pakistan produces more mullahs than doctors and engineers annually
Although all the religious parties except two (Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam who could clinch a few seats in 342-member parliament) were rejected by the people of Pakistan in the general […]
[Books] Meet Malala
I Am Malala The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban By Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb | Little, Brown and Company | 2013 Malala […]
Bangladesh’s forex reserves go up
While the per capita income of people in Bangladesh has increased substantially, the country’s foreign exchange reserve crossed the US $17 billion mark on October 22 for the first time […]
Maoists suffer humiliating defeat in assembly election of Nepal
Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (UCPN-M) that waged an armed insurgency from 1996 to 2006 in Nepal killing about 17,000 people had suffered a humiliating defeat in the second […]
India’s superpower hopes take a beating
India’s hopes of becoming a superpower are up in flames, at least for the present. While policy-makers in New Delhi fiddled as the economy wobbled, it suffered a devastating setback […]
Maoists’ shutdown increases uncertainty over Nepal’s political future
The Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (CPN-Maoist), the breakaway faction of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (UCPN-Maoist), has posed a risk to the November 19 Constituent Assembly polls by […]