Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party returned to the lower house of the Indian parliament, the Lok Sabha, with an overwhelming majority…
Month: September 2020
Rock carvings at Khaplo Chilas on Agust 31 2020 Abdul Sattar Chilasi Cliffs and boulders in the mountainous area of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan feature thousands…
Man carrying a child & taking a selfie, Gorakhpur, India. (Vishnu Nishad/Unsplash) Apple is increasing its engagement in India, in what is seen as proof of…
Judicial Complex building, Peshawar. (Raza Hamdani Sep.6 2020) The murder of a US citizen accused of blasphemy in Pakistan by a teenager inside a courtroom has…
KOLKATA, India—Darjeeling, the picturesque hill town in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, is synonymous with tea, but connoisseurs might be losing their taste for it…
A spoon of turmeric powder. Photo/Bal Mugesh Navaneetha Krishnan Turmeric smuggling as a result of a government ban on imports to Sri Lanka in December 2019,…
Marek Studzinski/Unsplash About 40 percent of over-the-counter and generic prescription drugs in the U.S. are from India, which is the world’s largest supplier of generic medicines,…
Dalle Khorsani pepper in an undated photo (Courtesy of Pragya Sharma) Sikkim, a state in North East India, is set to get a Geographical Indication tag…
Mohammad Babul Uddin (center) and at their home in Hojai Assam. Uddin and his kids are out of the citizenship registry. In this photo, Uddin shows…
TAIPEI, Taiwan — An 80-year-old Taiwanese street vendor who serves food f10 hours a day has earned a gourmet award that chefs chase for their entire…