SRINAGAR: Three persons, including two devotees, were killed and over 10,000 pilgrims stranded as heavy rains lashed parts of Jammu and Kashmir prompting authorities to suspend the annual pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath on Sunday."Heavy rains rendered
Ted Koppel has a new four-part series on the Discovery Channel about China called "People's Republic of Capitalism." From an AP report about the show:The series illustrates how dramatically China has changed in ways obvious and not-so-obvious, from the jumble
Chinese officials and thousands of volunteers are still struggling to clean up the thick, green algae that has floated into the Olympic sailing competition waters. Officials claim that the algae is naturally-occurring, but some volunteers point to factory pollution as
The Observer has an interview with iconoclastic artist Ai Weiwei:Ai Weiwei, China's most famous living artist, lives and works in Caochangdi, which used to be a village to the east of Beijing but is now, thanks to the city's endless
From The Financial Times:In the end it was a nagging feeling that the eyes had lost their iconic, melancholy look made German manufacturer Steiff realise that if you want top-quality teddy bears, China might not be your best bet.Before that
Mary Hennock and Melinda Liu report in Newsweek magazine:The Chinese phrase for "crisis" combines the words for both "danger" and "opportunity." That pretty much describes how the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that flattened parts of Sichuan also shattered parts of the traditional
The New York Times reports on a new competition between mainland China and Taiwan - over a ping-pong table:Outside, the tropical heat of southern Taiwan seems to wither even the palm trees, while inside, the players break into a sweat
The Guardian interviews six activists and dissidents including Ma Jian, Wan Yanhai, Li Fangping, Dai Qing, Dean Peng, and Woeser:Countless thousands of people in China are blacklisted, harassed, intimidated and locked up merely for what they say or because of
As part of his continuing series on China's cultural legacy, New York Times art critic Holland Cotter reports from Dunhuang on the state of the Mogaoku Buddhist cave paintings:Mogaoku is in trouble. Thrown open to visitors in recent decades, the
Singh, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar here that the Samajwadi Party had now taken up the role of the CPI-M in propping up the Congress. He said the stand taken
He demanded the Prime Minister prove majority in Parliament after the Left parties withdraw their support. "We have already demanded that the PM seek a vote of confidence to prove majority if Left support is withdrawn." He said being 'dual-faced'
It is for senior leader Pranab Mukherjee to reply. He will reply in an appropriate manner," was what AICC media department chairperson Veerappa Moily said when asked whether the head of the UPA-Left joint mechanism on the nuclear deal would
The meeting with Bush on the sidelines of the G-8 Summit in Toyako in Hokkaido between July 7 and 9 is expected to provide an opportunity for the two principals to review the latest position about the deal less than
