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By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Sep 2 (IPS) – The ordeal of a Sri Lankan domestic worker whose Saudi Arabian employer allegedly drove nails and metal wires into her body has sent alarm bells ringing among government officials and activists, but how...
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 30 (IPS) – A breakdown in Pakistan’s justice system, a sign of a society desensitised to violence, an example of mob brutality.
Whatever one calls the sight filmed on video by at least
two television...
NEW DELHI: After a long drawn -out consultation process, the Union government has finally pronounced its verdict against Vedanta Alumina’s $1.7-billion plan to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa. Local tribals have been agitating against...
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 20 (IPS) – Inundated by appeals through text messages, email and Twitter, as well as in print and broadcast media, that call for donations of dried rations, hygiene kits, buckets, tubs and cooking pots,...
Melbourne: Australian Labor Party (ALP) candidate Lisa Singh from Tasmania has become the first person of South Asian decent in Australia to enter the Australian Federal Parliament. Lisa Singh, 38, a former Minister in the ALP government in Tasmania...
By our political correspondent
Melbourne: Australia is all set to have a hung parliament for the first time in 70 years after voters dealt Labor a crippling blow, with large swings to the Coalition in New South Wales and Queensland and a record primary...
By Megan Iacobini de Fazio and Matthew Berger*
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 (IPS) – The U.N. General Assembly met Thursday to express the world
community’s solidarity with the people of Pakistan and to urge
member states to step up their aid...
Analysis by Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI, Aug 18 (IPS) – Strident voices are rising against the Indian coalition government’s move to
identify people by their caste background in the ongoing census.
India has not included caste as a category...
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 16 (IPS) – ”If this is not God’s wrath, what is?” 40-year-old taxi driver Bakht Zada said of
the massive floods in Pakistan that have swept away his life earnings.
Speaking to IPS from Madyan...
MUMBAI: The Coast Guard on Sunday sounded an alert over the oil spill off the Mumbai coast as the slick covered a large area, up to five nautical miles, from the spot where two ships collided on Saturday morning.
The spillage from MSC Chitra, after...