INDO-EUROPEANS 3: NOAH’S ANIMALS MARCH
Favorable climate and abundant water made India and Southeast Asia a hothouse for the domestication of plants and animals. The second wave of Indo-Europeans carried these into Eurasia and Europe. The controversy More...
U.S., rebels urge gloomy Moscow to help oust Assad
Report by Oliver Holmes, BEIRUT | Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:14pm EST (Reuters) – Syria’s rebel leadership and the United States seized on Russian pessimism over President Bashar al-Assad’s future to More...
Egypt opposition urges “no” vote on divisive constitution
Report by Tamim Elyan and Marwa Awad, CAIRO | Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:17pm EST (Reuters) – Egypt’s liberal and secular opposition has urged its supporters to vote down a divisive constitution put forward More...
Darlymple joins Karnad’s ‘Hate Naipaul Campaign’
Girish Karnad cannot hold a candle to V.S. Naipaul as a writer. His attacking Naipaul at a major literary event is an attempt to step out of obscurity and gain some limelight that his talent does not merit. Dalrymple More...
The Nano Revolution 2: Learning from Biosystems
While humans have been experimenting for centuries, nature has been doing it for millions of years. Biological systems are far superior to human creations when it comes to using nature’s gifts like sun’s energy. More...
Educated Professionals and Jihadism in South Asia
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - Tragically, India, proud of its long-lasting democratic institutions and its far-reaching efforts at integration and equality for a population of 1.2 billion, has again been More...
Assad’s forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital
(Reuters) – Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on Sunday of committing a massacre of scores of people in a town close to the capital that the army had just retaken More...
Unity of India is of untold antiquity
Column by Virendra Parekh - India’s cultural unity goes back to Vedic times. Even when politically divided, the goal was always to unite it under a single chatra. There is no basis to the claim that India was More...
Syrian prime minister defects, fighting goes on
Syrian forces pressed on with their offensive against rebels in the largest city Aleppo after the prime minister fled the country, denouncing the “terrorist regime” of Bashar al-Assad. Riyad Hijab is More...
Standard Chartered may lose NY license over Iran ties
In a rare move, New York’s top bank regulator threatened to strip the state banking license of Standard Chartered Plc, saying it was a “rogue institution” that hid $250 billion in transactions More...
