Burma’s underground opposition intends to launch a campaign of civil disobedience to maintain the pressure for change on the military junta. Moving daily between safe houses, the Burmese pro-democracy activists and monks who co-ordinated last...

President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday won a one-sided election for another five-year term from a truncated parliamentary electoral college amid boycotts and protests while the fate of the 55 per cent votes cast for him by his own loyalists, still...

Maoist leaders and Nepal’s ruling parties agreed Friday to postpone upcoming elections in the Himalayan nation, a move that ends one political crisis but still leaves the two sides deadlocked over a series of other issues. The Election...

The Conservatives renewed their challenge to Gordon Brown to call an early election after David Cameron pulled off a significant comeback in the opinion polls. With a decision thought to be just 72 hours away, the Prime Minister now finds...

Despite attempt by a major opposition grouping to raise the ante by resigning en masse from the national and three provincial assemblies, General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday stole the show by dropping the clearest hint to date of soon restoring...

The Taliban has published a shadow Afghan constitution outlining an alternative hardline government to that of President Hamid Karzai. The 23 page document is important in many ways, as this is the first time that Taliban has laid down laws, or their...

Exiled former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Saturday, she plans to return to Pakistan later this year, despite possible arrest, and doesn’t rule out running for the top post again. In an interview to BBC radio Ms...

Syrian air defence spokesman claimed that the Israeli aircraft infiltrated its territory on Thursday and bombed in the areas. The spokesman cleared that ‘Syrian air defence units confronted Israeli aircraft and forced them to...

Politics is often regarded as the “game of power”. But talk of cricket, cricket in India, BCCI, and one name that immediately comes to our mind is of Mr. Pawar. The gentleman’s game is not just confined to the game of power but has...

Hartals, strikes, Dharnas, resentment, obstructions, etc have all become synonymous with the Communist parties in India. Even when they did not matter to the health of the Government, they tried all their might to make Government listen to them. But not...