The enduring lesson of Mizoram is not that the state won and the insurgents lost. It is that both sides eventually found a political space in which neither needed to win everything. That is the essence of accommodation and perhaps the most enduring lesson Lal Thanhawla’s life offers India.
The Taliban, therefore, is not challenging whether Islam should shape women’s rights. Both the OIC and the Taliban begin from that premise. The disagreement is over what Islamic rights mean and, more importantly, who has the authority to define them.
As of January this year, at least 296 Bangladeshis have died in border areas over the past decade, as India’s Border Security Forces (BSF) pushes “illegal Bangladeshis” across the border in the dead of night.
It is true that only a handful of newspapers have the resources and persistence to pursue big stories of the kind that came alive in the EC exposé. Nevertheless, to the extent that it inspires others to pursue even smaller news stories with steadfastness this could potentially redeem the otherwise sordid state of affairs in the Indian media.
Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh is making his debut movie with Sri Lankan actress and television presenter Losliya Mariyanesan. The spin bowler recently shared the teaser of his debut film Friendship, revealing the casting of Losliya, who is from Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka, according to the Newswire
The Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Thursday that the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 6 has been delayed "with immediate effect" after seven people participating in the tournament-tested positive for COVID-19
Digital age and Internet has helped in exchange of humour and creativity across the tense man-made borders of India and Pakistan
He always thought of his best-selling book 'Refugee Camp' as a celluloid spectacle, a story of Kashmir's living tragedy, but aware of the cinematic challenges, author Ashish Kaul first wanted to establish the validity and acceptance of the story
A bride, who claimed she was already married and had a son, but was sold by her greedy paternal uncle for 700,000 rupees, slipped away from the wedding party and managed to report the matter to the police in Tangwani town of Kandhkot-Kashmore district in Sindh province of Pakistan
The reconstruction and conservation work on Nepal’s famous 10th century-old Seto Machhindranath Temple began on Sunday with Indian grants
An exhibition is being showcased at the Nepal Art Council in Kathmandu to support cancer patients
Bollywood actor and producer Pooja Bhatt has rated Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, as having the best food in South Asia
A Pakistani politician, who is believed to be aged in his mid-fifties, has married a 14-year-old Chitrali girl, triggering a row, media reports said
The Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera near Ahmedabad, which has been dubbed the " world's largest cricket stadium" with a capacity of 110,000 people, was Wednesday renamed as the Narendra Modi Stadium
At least 25 special priests from various sacred temples of South India have reached Kathmandu to perform 'Kshama Puja' (forgiveness worship) at Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu as the authorities have started work to replace the existing silver jalhari of the temple with gold-plated jalhari
While the COVID-19 pandemic has left no sectors unscathed, not many are aware how it has affected the people practicing folk arts and crafts
Kashmiri poets, young artists and language activists have gone hi-tech to preserve and promote Kashmiri language and also “sing songs of their own”
As a playwright and director, Chiranjit went beyond the usual entertainment quotient
Two universities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan - the northwestern province bordering Afghanistan that is ruled by Prime Minister Imran Khan's PTI party - have issued strict dress code policies by banning tight-fitted jeans, tee-shirts, and makeup among other things for its students, faculty as well as for its other staff members
