Id al-Fitr under the Watchful Eyes of China

New York Times

This article explains how the SriLankan Constitution can be amended, what the key changes are and the legal arguments advanced in favor of and against the changes. Editor's Note: The Amendment has already been passed.

How to fix flood-hit Pakistan

BBC News

“Nehru gave China Panchsheel,” remarked Li Changchun, one of China's most powerful leaders, on Tuesday morning, as he found himself standing, somewhat surprised, in front of a bust of India's first Prime Minister in the heart of Beijing.

Yes.... Our nuclear program has ensured our survival, our security, and our sovereignty ... I am proud to have contributed to it together with my patriotic and able colleagues.

Authorities have overturned environmental approval given to a $200-million-cement plant project planned by French industrial giant Lafarge in northern India. The National Environment Appellate Authority on Monday ruled against the proposed plant in the state of Himachal Pradesh, citing a threat to the local economy and wildlife. 

China isn't beating us fair and square. China is breaking the trade rules that the rest of the world follows in order to dominate production of clean energy. It's killing our ability to create new jobs.

Op-Ed

Letter from Srinagar

"We have seen enough of India," the twenty-something-year-old told me. "We don't want to put up with the oppression anymore. We want freedom." 

Nepal's Never Ending Elections

With the elections to the post of Prime Minister likely to go the earlier way with no result unless some miracle happens, the question many analysts are asking - Is Nepal failing? The answer is no.

Many Indian hospitals routinely subject rape survivors to forensic examinations that include the unscientific and degrading "finger" test, Human Rights Watch said in a report released last week.

While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China. Selig Harrison's explosive Op-ed.