Super cyclone Mocha made landfall along the Myanmar-Bangladesh coasts on Sunday after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm, causing extensive damage to the southeastern......
Some believe she should no longer be the face of the struggle to free Myanmar from the new military dictatorship, observes Prakash Bhandari. IMAGE: A Myanmar anti-coup protester holds up a three......
Significant progress has been made in protecting hundreds of thousands Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh since they fled violence in Myanmar, but lives “will once again be at risk” if......
Seeking 'utter destruction' of Al Qaeda, the United States has chalked out a strategy to disrupt, dismantle and ultimately defeat the terror network and its core leadership in the Afghanistan-Pak......
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan's 1986 essay, centred on a case of perceived insult to the Prophet Muhammed and the violent Muslim response to it, bears immediate relevance to the issues being hotly......
Here's a tricky question. Is contemporary Indian music -- read Punjabi pop, Indi-pop, Hind-rock and so on -- going increasingly global, or are global sounds being crooned more and more in India?......
'NO child deserves a life without hope for the future.' Priyanka Chopra has been spreading joy and happiness at the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. She headed to Dhaka soon after......
Oscar-winning music director A R Rahman's band NAFS made its debut at the fifth edition of Gionee Star Global Indian Music (GiMA) Awards in Mumbai. The band was launched last month to......
Endowing his role with infectious charm, Will Ferrell zooms into the top bracket of bankable stars with Elf, a Christmas comedy released weeks ahead of the festival season. The former television......
A Roman Abramovich-sponsored soccer tournament involving leading Russian and Ukrainian clubs has been cancelled, organisers said on Monday. The Channel One Cup, which had been held in Israel in......