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Previewing the new US Burma policy with the 17-member UN Group of Friends on Burma in New York, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US will pursue a policy of “engagement” and “sanctions” simultaneously.
Clinton said on Wednesday the...
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A eunuch in Mumbai has complained to a human rights agency watchdog seeking the right to vote for his community in the next month’s Indian state assembly elections.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi has termed the denial of political suffrage “a gross...
India is struggling to unravel the mystery surrounding a United Arab Emirates Air Force aircraft detained in Calcutta since Sunday for carrying undeclared weapons — including at least one missile — bound for China.
The discovery has raised...
The Pashupatinath temple row took an ugly turn in Nepal on Friday with a mob assaulting the two newly-appointed Indian priests, stripping them naked and tearing off their sacred threads regarded as mandatory for Brahmins.
Girish Bhatt and Raghavendra...
Officials say a helicopter carrying a powerful Indian politician has disappeared in bad weather as it flew over a forested region infested with Maoist rebels.
K. Roshaiah, finance minister of southern Andhra Pradesh state, says air force helicopters...
East Timorese victims of the violence of 1999 and of Indonesia’s occupation have yet to receive any justice, says a report by Amnesty International.
Many perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity between 1975 and 1999 have still not...
Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India in recent weeks, leaving behind families plunged even further into poverty, activists and politicians said.
Nearly every day, newspapers...
If the reliance on public reasoning is an important aspect of the approach to justice, so is the form in which questions of justice are asked. There is a strong case for replacing what I have been calling transcendental institutionalism — that...
A ban on commercial vehicles more than 15 years old has come into force in the Indian city of Calcutta, as part of efforts to reduce pollution levels.
The restriction affects thousands of buses, taxis and rickshaws. Transport operators have criticised...
An incident of alleged molestation in Assam’s Halflong town would have passed unnoticed, but for a girl who decided to take on an entire group of army personnel.
Diganta Das, a stringer with NDTV, was sitting at a tea shop nearby and filmed the...
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