To assuage international concerns over cross border filtration into Afghanistan, the Pakistani government has announced a series of measures.

The first week of January has a special tryst with India’s history. This significance would be as valid in any year, but it assumes an added import in 2007.

Lies are uttered with impunity. Misinformation is spread around without fear of recrimination. Untruth is bandied about with alacrity. A brief narration of the story so far may not be out of place.

the recapture of state power by BNP-Jamat led 4-party alliance in The January 22nd elections will not only reestablish the unlimited plunder and misrule in the country, but will also enhance the danger of a government led and dominated by Jamat-e-Islami, which they have already declared to be their aim to be achieved by 2012.

The dispute over the governments decision to appoint ambassadors in 14 diplomatic missions and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seemed to be intensifying today with the leaders of the ruling seven-party alliance (SPA) engaging in claims and counterclaims over the cabinet decision.

The two Houses of the US Congress have now passed the Hyde Act, which is going to be the basis for the final version of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal.

Smiling behind her desk, school teacher Sabita Adhikari is thrilled to see all 40 of her fourth grade students in class. "Nobody is absent anymore. It's because children feel safe to travel from their villages to attend class," said Adhikari.

The decision to deploy the Army nationwide on the lame excuse that the situation requires “law and order,” will only make the country's political scenario more difficult and deepen the existing crisis.

WHAT happened at Singur on December 1? According to the description offered in a section of the TV and newspapers, democracy was supposedly raped that day at Singur, and ‘tigers’ personified in the police launched a barbarous attack on some innocent and harmless ‘sheep’.

The opposition to the setting up of a motor plant in Singur in West Bengal has, indeed, attracted very strange bedfellows. BJP president Rajnath Singh, Trinamul Congress’s Mamta Banerjee, sections of state Congress leadership and Medha Patkar have all come together spreading canards against the West Bengal Left Front government.

Bangladesh communists have declared a nationwide demonstration on November 30 to demand the immediate implementation of its 53-point charter of electoral reforms and to call for a fundamental transformation in the country's political orientation, the principal message of the demonstration will be: "Change the Government AND Change the Politics."

The Communist Party of Bangladesh has expressed its serious concern over the recent visit of US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Mr. Richard Boucher.

THE anti-people and anti-development conspiracies of the Bengal opposition notwithstanding, the industrialization efforts of the state Left Front government shall continue with fervor. “We are determined not to allow the opportunistic elements and their patrons in the corporate media to frustrate the developmental initiative that has been set in motion,” said Bengal CPI(M) secretary Biman Basu.

Bangladesh has entered into a period of political crisis and turmoil following the end of the government tenure of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party/-Jamat four-party alliance.

The mid-term provides the backdrop to see how the Manmohan Singh government has undertaken to implement the CMP provision to pursue an independent foreign policy and promote multi-polarity in international relations.

In the recent period there have been attempts to create confusion and spread misinformation regarding the proposed automobile factory of Tata Motors in Singur in West Bengal. The opposition political parties, including Trinamul Congress and Congress also called a bandh (general shutdown or strike in protest) on the issue, which was rejected by the people of the state.

IT is in the background of the onslaught of imperialist globalisation and liberalisation – with India's ruling classes succumbing to imperialist pressures resulting in the endemic closure of traditional industries – that some possibility of industrial development seems to have opened up in West Bengal.

Communist Party leaders in Bangladesh appeal to the people for ouster of the ultra right BNP-Jamat and for a left democratic alternative. They denounce interference by the Bush administration.

Abductions, torture, brutal beatings, killings, extortions and other serious human rights abuses by Maoist rebels have not stopped despite their engagement in the ongoing peace process, according to a new report by the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal.

Thousands of Afghan people were killed in the American assault on the country – all being just as innocent as the people in New York – the difference being that five years later Afghans continue being killed.