Despite heavy rain over several previous days, the skies cleared sufficiently early Wednesday (October 22) morning over Sriharikota to enable a textbook launch of India’s historic and first mission to the Moon.

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill (H R 7081) that approves the 123 agreement, but which is contradictory to the assurance given by the prime minister to the nation. An identical version is before the US Senate for voting.

Kishore Mahbubani’s new book, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, is a sobering text that should be read with three points in mind.

The triumphalist note struck by the UPA government and the Congress leadership on the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) clearance that has opened the way for the US Congress to adopt the 123 agreement, cannot hide the hard realities.

Afghanistan may have been a war unexpected in Canada, but a familiarity with American expectations concerning the New American Century combined with the fawning willingness of the Canadian military would make it more probable than improbable.

The truck bomb that exploded in front of Islamabad's Marriott hotel killing at least 53 people heralded in the latest salvo in the the US's and Mujahedin's love/hate relationship.

As a result of the surge in military activity on its western border with Afghanistan, Pakistan is currently in deep waters politically. The present predicament is the direct result of continued subservience to the United States by the Pakistani civilian and military establishment.

Pakistan has entered into a democratic period after passing through a long interval of military dictatorship. Since 1977, the presidential office has remained occupied, directly or indirectly, by representatives of civil or military bureaucracy even when the government was apparently civilian.

KATHMANDU, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Nepali six ruling parties have dwelt on the coalition government's policies and programs to be presented by President Ram Baran Yadav on Wednesday.

In a recent world conference on 'Health, Safety and Environment' held at Seoul, (South Korea) the representatives of the government of India saw that various countries in the world have a documented policy of this important subject.

For some time I have been following developments in Nepal just as I have followed developments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and other countries experiencing dramatic political shifts in Latin America.

The Indian State that came into being after independence bore the stamp of the anti-colonial struggle. It aimed to promote egalitarian development, later re-christened as the building of a “socialistic pattern of society,” and negate the hegemony of imperialism, old and new.

Under strong pressure and the looming threat of impeachment, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation Monday, Aug. 18th.

The UN World Food Program's (WFP’s) food-for-education program has been adversely affected by recent attacks on aid convoys: Some 300,000 primary school children, mostly in southern provinces, have not received vegetable oil and fortified biscuits over the past four months.

Everyone is now accustomed to hearing that the financial crisis in the United States and in Britain was caused by American financial institutions lending money to unsafe borrowers for buying houses.

As the deadline for the next election nears, one question that needs addressing is whether it would serve as a much needed second referendum on the kind of economic policies that the previous NDA and the current UPA governments have followed.

At this critical juncture, when the Government is about to rush the safeguards agreement through the IAEA, there is a great deal of disquiet among the scientific community at large in this country.

Delhi, like all other Indian cities and especially the metros, is a study in contrasts. Too often, however, the contrast between the rich and the poor in this city is presented as reflecting the difference between the new and the old, or between the integrated and the marginalized.

The increasing number of attacks on aid agencies is reducing their ability to deliver life-saving assistance to vulnerable communities; the consequences are "serious" and could lead to a "humanitarian crisis," aid workers have warned.

After almost eight years of military rule, Pakistan faces a myriad of challenges that threaten its very existence. American threats of unilateral action in the tribal area, Indian backed insurrection in Balochistan, a dramatic increase in suicide blasts, and the economy in tatters are some of Pakistan’s woes.