Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Zohra Segal (April 27, 1912 - July 10, 2014)

    10 July 2014

    Celebrate actress Zohra Segal who won the hearts of millions is no more. The legend will live on in our hearts for ever.

    FUNERAL JULY 11, 2014 11AM LODHI ROAD CREMATORIUM, NEW DELHI

  • Nepal: Shame on all of us!

    by Kanak Mani Dixit, 10 July 2014

    A human rights debacle is unfolding, with collaboration of a democratic government, the international community and intelligentsia

  • India: No going back on MGNREGA

    by Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, 10 July 2014

    The budget will reveal whether the BJP is committed to this transformative programme.

  • Afghan cauldron on the boil again | Bharat Bhushan

    10 July 2014

    Instead of stabilising the country, Afghanistan’s presidential election can destabilise it further. While acknowledging electoral fraud, the chairman of the Independent Election Commission, Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani, has gone ahead and announced the preliminary results of the presidential runoff.

  • The Mitrokhin archive: KGB defector’s extensive intelligence files open to public

    10 July 2014

    Thousands of KGB files from the Mitrokhin Archive that raised a storm in India in 2005 and offered a rare peek into the erstwhile Soviet Union’s intelligence system will be opened to the public for the first time at the University of Cambridge from Monday. A 2005 book based on the files by intelligence historian Christopher Andrew claimed that India during Indira Gandhi’s tenure as prime minister had been infiltrated at several levels by the KGB, prompting demands for a parliamentary (…)

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