India-Pakistan Conflict
Bangladesh: With protests intensifying, investors decry rivalry among political elite
By K. Ratnayaka, March 9, 1999
The rivalry between the Awami League government and the opposition political parties in Bangladesh reached a new height with the opposition's call for a three-day general strike on February 23. At lea...
India: BJP-led coalition sacks Bihar state government
By a correspondent, February 24, 1999
India's ruling coalition, which is dominated by the Hindu chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has seized on mounting landlord violence to sack the government of Bihar, India's second most populou...
Massacres by landlord militia rock India's second most populous state
By Arun Kumar, February 24, 1999
Twelve villagers, four of them women and one a 12-year-old child, were massacred by a landlord-sponsored militia in the Jahanabad District of India's Bihar state on the evening of February 11.
Indian chemical workers appeal for support
By Terry Cook, February 13, 1999
More than 200 workers at Hema Chemical Industries on the Gorwa industrial estate at Vadodara in the Indian state of Gujarat have been on strike since early December, fighting the company's refusal to ...
India: Charges of BJP's complicity in murder of Christians rock government
By Arun Kumar, February 5, 1999
The brutal murder of an Australian missionary and his two young sons--the climax to months of verbal and physical attacks on India's Christian minority--has shaken India's coalition government, which ...
Health hazards in Bangladesh
15,000 children in Dhaka die every year from pollution
By K. Ratnayake, February 3, 1999
Masses of people in Bangladesh face a perilous situation due to hazardous health conditions in the country, according to reports from health workers and the World Bank. The main source of these condit...
India: Congress party backs BJP "reform" bills
By Deepal Jayasekera, January 14, 1999
The Congress, the official opposition in India's parliament, has lent its support to two bills--the Patents (Amendment) Bill and the Insurance Regulatory Authority Bill--that big business in India and...
Engineer in Pakistan writes on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh
January 12, 1999
To the editor,
