S.D: Mr Grass, what is your impression of President George Bush? Grass: I regard this man as a danger, a threat to world peace. He reminds me of one of those characters in Shakespeare's historical ...

As recently, a court martial awarded life term to 7 persons of Indian army after a court of inquiry in Machil encounter case. The infamous draconian act Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and the ...

I sometimes wonder what historians of the far future will think as they pore over what’s left of the records of our own time. It’s unlikely that they’ll have a great deal more to go on than, say, ...

Nineteen years ago, one of the most diabolical slaughters in war history occurred in Iraq. Despite the assurances of the Bush I regime that retreating Iraqi soldiers would not be attacked, just the ...

Quietly, far from the public eye, Israeli soldiers continue killing Palestinians. Hardly a day goes by without casualties, some innocent civilians, and the stories of their violent deaths never reach ...

When you tell people in India that you are travelling to Pakistan, the instant response is "be careful." Last week, when I travelled back by bus from Lahore to Delhi, one of the passengers was a young ...

Indian plans to divert vast quantities of water from major rivers, including the Ganges and Brahmaputra, threaten the livelihoods of more than 100 million people downstream in Bangladesh, the ...

I have finally managed to do it ! Quit the habit ! The horrible, horrible habit of reading the newspaper and watching news on television EVERY DAY ! Let me quickly tell you the results of giving up my ...

The study published yesterday by the Future Foundation, which purported to show that feminism is outmoded and unpopular, predictably produced swathes of coverage. It's hardly worth spending time ...

The judge asked her if she could identify any one of the accused lined up in the court. She gave the lot a cursory look at them and then, without a blink, said ‘‘No.’’ This was Zahira Sheikh, ...

America and Britain declared themselves yesterday to be the "occupying powers" in Iraq and produced a blueprint for the administration of the country that confined the United Nations to a ...

It was a most peculiar day. Overnight, the Americans had pulverised a neo-Classical office block next to what was – before a previous pulverisation – the Iraqi government's Department of Air Armaments ...