-By Sadanand Dhume ,
Is Congress perceived as Hindu enough to rule India? This appears to be a question preoccupying the party as it prepares for next year’s pivotal general elections against the ruling BJP. That the fount of Nehruvian secularism is in the midst of a religious makeover is...
-By Harsh V Pant
India, In a remarkable display of New Delhi’s ability to balance competing interests in West Asia, India is hosting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. He’s on a reciprocal visit after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tehran in 2016, which had resulted in a trilateral...
-By Thomas Chan Tak-leung,
US President Donald Trump’s attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was a hotly anticipated affair because the last US president to attend the forum was Bill Clinton in 2000. And since Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attendance at the...
By Jochen Bittner ,
HAMBURG, Germany — Europe sighed in relief on Sunday night when the news broke that Germany’s Social Democratic Party had agreed to negotiate another coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats. Since the inconclusive national elections in September, it...
-By M Ziauddin,
In an age when it appears that the public around the world is falling out with facts, humanity and accountable truth-telling, the future of ethical journalism appears rather bleak. This situation is dealt in detail in a report titled Ethics in the News, compiled by the Ethical...
-By Chris Cork / Valerie Khan,
The rape and murder of another child in Kasur has prompted a range of ill-informed or misinformed responses from both print and electronic media platforms, and politicians. Self-appointed ‘experts’ with little or no experience of how to handle such a case, get...
–By Shahid Javed Bukhari,
Pakistan’s slow progress toward developing a stable and inclusive political system faced new challenges in the second half of 2017, and the US president’s recent tweets could make matters worse. If Pakistan continues to falter in 2018, the consequences will...
-By Laurence Tubiana
PARIS, Nearly two years have passed since France’s then-foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, struck his gavel and declared: “The Paris agreement for the climate is accepted.” Next week, President Emmanuel Macron and the French government will host world leaders and non-state...
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Overview : Nepal, a small Himalayan country is inhabited by heterogeneous ethnic groups. It is the homeland of several castes, ethnic, linguistic and religious groups. The composition of Nepali society according to religion is as follows:
If we look at the national population...
-By John Branch
In a typical year now, more than 600 people reach the summit of Everest
Mount Everest is the tallest and most famous mountain in the world — a global beacon and metaphor wrapped in awe and mystery. It is also one of the most accessible big mountains in the world, bringing...
