Gibson - Instablogs
Nov 4 2009
At the edge of the Indravati River, hundreds of miles from the nearest international border, India effectively ends. Indian paramilitary officers point machine guns across the water. The dense jungles and mountains on the other side belong to Maoist...
Oct 28 2009
A one-day strike to protest the arrival of Indian troops in Indian-administered Kashmir in 1947 shut most shops and businesses in the disputed region’s main city on Tuesday. Many banks, post offices and government offices in Srinagar, the urban...
Oct 22 2009
After she refused a corrupt cop’s demand that she turn her teahouse into an illegal casino, three thugs beat Chen Yanling with electric batons, sending her to the hospital for nearly a month. Chen is now getting some vicarious revenge, joining...
Oct 12 2009
An ideal groom in this dusty farming village is a vegetarian, does not drink, has good prospects for a stable job and promises his bride-to-be an amenity in high demand: a toilet. In rural India, many young women are refusing to marry unless the suitor...
Oct 2 2009
Geologists in southern India say they have found hundreds of dinosaur egg clusters which could be about 65 million years old. It was a chance find discovered when a team of scientists were locating a place to excavate an ancient riverbed in the state...
Sep 23 2009
Scores of women, many of them married and with children, gathered outside the office of Chaudhry Iftikhar, a local trader, in the old quarters of the port city’s Khori Garden to get free rations of flour. Then a stampede broke out as the people...
Sep 1 2009
The spat between Washington and Islamabad over allegations that Pakistan illegally modified U.S.-supplied missiles to improve its ability to target India reveals a deeper schism in the relationship: Pakistan’s military establishment remains...
Aug 29 2009
A court in Pakistan has lifted the final restrictions on controversial nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, allowing him total freedom of movement. Dr Khan, whose work helped Pakistan become a nuclear state, spent years under house arrest after he...
Aug 28 2009
Bangalore: In the last one week two young IT engineers, one was working with Wipro and another with HCL, committed suicide. Both the engineers died by jumping from their office building. Wipro engineer, Vishal Yadav (29), had a BE in electronics and...
Jun 27 2009
Yuvraj Singh hit a rollicking 131-run knock as India pipped West Indies by 20 runs in the thrilling first cricket one-day international to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series here on Friday. Leaving behind their pathetic show in the Twenty20 World...