South Asian rights group concerned over US immigration bill

Washington: Against the backdrop of impeachment of the Sri Lankan chief justice, US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs Robert Blake has said the country is moving backwards on democracy.We have been disappointed that there have ...

History-making Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth Sri Srinivasans unanimous Senate confirmation as the first South Asian judge on the powerful appeals court for the American capital has been widely hailed. Senate Judiciary Committees Democratic Chairman ...

Positioning India as a net security provider for the South Asian and Indian Ocean regions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the nation's security has never been stronger than it is today and its global ties never more conducive for ...

Staff Report KARACHI: Pakistan is the gateway to Central Asian Republics, South Asia, Middle East and China whereas Turkey can act as the gateway to European Union (EU) for Pakistan and other Asian countries in respect of commerce. President Karachi ...

Posted by Equitymaster Asian equity markets have opened the day on a mixed note with China (up 1.0%) and South Korea (up 0.9%) leading the gains. However, markets in Japan (down 1.3%) and Malaysia (down 0.6%) have opened in the red. The Indian share markets ...

SEOUL — South Korea says it will never accept rival North Korea as a nuclear-weapons state. But there appears to be no international consensus on how to prevent that. Speaking Tuesday in Seoul, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se ...

Minority faiths are being throttled all over South Asia. New Delhi: Away from the international focus on Islamic states in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, South Asia's increasing bigotry and religious intolerance has reached an unacceptable ...

A coalition of Asian-American groups led by activist Deepa Iyer recently met United States President Barack Obama to urge him to support family reunification in the new comprehensive immigration reform bill. The coalition under the banner of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans -- which Iyer chairs, besides being founder and executive director of South Asian  Americans Leading Together -- also implored Obama to ensure health and language access to these communities as well as ...

When economist and member-secretary of Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, Shaibal Gupta got a call from the Union finance ministry inviting him to be a member of a committee, he had no clue that its purpose would be to redefine the term ...