Tag: South Asia
Mosque leader suspected of framing Pakistani teenager for blasphemy
Rimsha Masih was arrested in Pakistan last month after she was charged with burning a Koran. Now, however, police say the person who first alleged she'd burned the Islamic holy book did it himself....
India's record power outage causes surprisingly little outage
While India's daily life was disrupted with a second day of power outages, life was moving on. Diesel generators were fired up, and some people just shrugged and moved on. But at the government level, politicians were vowing action to keep this from happening again....
Indian man, separated from his family at age 5, uses Google Earth to find his mom
Saroo Brierly was separated from his family when he was just 5 years old. He'd gotten on a train, fallen asleep and woken up in Calcutta, far away from his hometown -- a home he didn't even know the name of. He was eventually adopted by an Australian couple but recently used Google Earth to research where he might be from. He reunited with his mom 25 years after being separated from her....
Educated, well-to-do Indians try out living on $2 per day
Across large swatch of the world, many people live on the local equivalent of $2 per day. It's an amount so small that it's hard for many who don't live in that kind of poverty to really imagine. So two Indians who have advanced degrees and experience from the United States tried it out and documented their experiences....
Lab in rural India solves community's unique problems
A clothes dryer that works in rainy season, a fruit dryer and other innovative, low-cost solutions developed by a lab in the rural Indian community of Ujire....
New food safety law's impact on Indian street food
Many street food vendors will be forced to change their ways as India's food safety law is enforced....
Bhutan's hydropower ambitions
Bhutan intends to increase production of hydropower to keep up with growing energy needs and spur economic growth....
Obama withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, won't end the war
President Obama will announce his exit strategy from what is now America's longest war, Afghanistan. The fighting, however, is likely to continue for a long time....
Bringing gay tourism to Nepal
Sunil Pant, Nepal's first openly gay member of parliament, wants to bring much-needed tourism dollars to his home country....
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