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Bloom Box: What is it and how does it work? A '60 Minutes' Bloom Box segment has many excited about the home power plant. Is it too good to be true? By Husna Haq Correspondent posted February 22, 2010 at 12:09 pm EST It’s being hailed as the Holy Grail of clean energy: a...

Proud LAHORI at home in BOMBAY Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Shahvaar Ali Khan “Haan boss. Mere ko Bandra jaane ka hai…Carter Road,” (Hey boss, I need to go to Bandra…Carter Road) I nonchalantly told our driver, Aslam, as we left the Chhatrapati Shivaji...

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'Historic day for Afghanistan' War-torn nation's cricketers qualify for Twenty20 World Cup: 'So happy I cannot put it into words' Juan Gonzalez Special to the Star Afghan bowler Shahpoor Zadran goes to work against the U.S. during the Twenty20 qualifier. The Afghans won the...

Businessmen call for expanding trade with India Smuggling of Indian goods hurting exchequer, traders and consumers Saturday, February 13, 2010 By Samia Saleem KARACHI: As customers flock at the shop of Amjad Mansoor asking for the latest Indian goods ranging from fairness creams to...

Khursheed: Sonia is Indian like Bahadur Shah Zafar Vidya Subrahmaniam NEW DELHI: When did the idea of India begin? What role did the Mughal Empire play in the development of the modern idea of India? What were the contributions of Babur ki Aulad (progeny of Babur)? These questions were...

The New War Within Dark clouds are gathering over Pakistan's universities, portending a conflict that is likely to be long, bitter, and uncertain in outcome. Pervez Hoodbhoy Dark clouds are gathering over Pakistan's universities, portending a conflict that is likely to be long, bitter...

Obama vows to 'get the job done' in Afghanistan - Politics AP - MiamiHerald.com BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY, STEVEN THOMMA AND JOHN WALCOTT MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON -- In a preview of his speech next week announcing his plan to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan...

The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery - WSJ.com In India, a Factory Model for Hospitals Is Cutting Costs and Yielding Profits BANGALORE -- Hair tucked into a surgical cap, eyes hidden behind thick-framed magnifying glasses, Devi Shetty leans over the sawed open chest of an 11-year-old boy, using...

Bangladeshi women participate in an event marking the Nabannon festival in Dhaka on November 15, 2009. Nabannon is a traditional annual festival marking the harvest of new crops. The festival, which literally means ‘new rice’, takes place in the month of Agrohayon of the Bangla...

The American Spectator : Foiled Again By Christopher Orlet on 11.5.09 @ 6:07AM The would-be terrorists -- one an American, the other a Canadian -- called their plot to murder two Danish newspapermen the "Mickey Mouse Project." The cutesy code-name may have stemmed from the fact that David...

Baba Ramdev to address 500,000 Deobandi Maulanas OUR CORRESPONDENT The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Frontpage | ‘Positive’ Ramdev to address moulvis Ramdev New Delhi, Oct. 30: From L.K. Advani and N.D. Tiwari to Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav, they all swear...

This is from a review of "The Quranic Concept of War" by Brigadier S. K. Malik, (Lahore, Pakistan: Associated Printers, 1979) This review was published in the Journal Parameters, Winter 2006-07, pp. 108-27 Source: PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 2006-07 This provides...

Americans flock to Dr. Geeta Shroff's India clinic for stem cell treatments A controversial New Delhi clinic deploys advanced therapies that are unavailable in the U.S. to cure Americans suffering from MS, diabetes, paralysis, Alzheimer's, Lyme disease and cerebral palsy. By Mridu Khullar...

Marathas in Bengal 1731-1760: The Timeline The gist of Issue is as follows.. 1731 - Kanhoji Bhosle gets Sanad to subjugate Bengal 1727 - Murshid Qulikhan died 1740 - Alivadri khan kills Sarfaraz Khan, son on law of Navab of bengal - Mir Habib rises to Prominance as Deputy Navab...

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Afghanistan may introduce compulsory military service - Telegraph Afghans may be pressed into compulsory military service against the Taliban in order to meet United States commanders' targets to nearly treble the size of their army. By Ben Farmer in Kabul Published: 3:10PM BST 25 Sep...

Forced conversions Saturday, September 19, 2009 The parents of a young Hindu nurse, who disappeared over a month ago after leaving her Karachi home for the welfare hospital where she worked, continue their search for the daughter. So far their efforts have proved futile. They are not alone...

August 23, 2009 A School Bus for Shamsia http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23school-t.html?ref=world&pagewanted=all By DEXTER FILKINS EVEN BEFORE THE men with acid came, the Mirwais Mena School for Girls was surrounded by enemies. It stood on the outskirts of Kandahar...