Palash Ghosh

David has been heavily engaged in corporate sponsorships and lucrative speaking engagements in recent years.

Italian foreign minister Giulio Terzi has quit to protest the government's decision to send two marines back to India to face murder charges.

U.S. officials are likely eager to squelch the general perception that Washington wants to heavily influence political policy in Pakistan.

Not only do more Indian women want to return to their careers after a brief absence, but more are successful in finding such jobs.

In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. for $7.2 million (or about two cents per acre).

To Indians, Bhagat Singh is a combination of Robin Hood, George Washington and Robert the Bruce.

Traffic fatalities are surging in India due to inattentive drivers, poor enforcement of traffic laws, alcoholism, bad roads and motorists’ neglect of rules.

A large crowd protesting gay marriage suggests that the Catholic Church and social conservatives are alive and well in France.

Mugabe has ruled, or co-ruled, Zimbabwe since 1980.

Ex-Presisdent Musharraf will ultimately have to face some very serious charges, including conspiracy to murder.

Of Syria’s estimated 120,000-strong Armenian population prior to the civil war, the majority were clustered in Aleppo, now a battleground.

Italian authorities reportedly agreed to send the marines back to India after they received assurances the death penalty wouldn't be imposed.

Sikhs and Hindus are both besieged minorities in Pakistan, a country that was artificially created in 1947 by the partition of India.

“Stalin” is not a nickname, it is his given name.

Something drastic changed Greenlander culture around 1970, when suicides began to climb.

Thousands of PKK soldiers are believed to be based in camps in northern Iraq.

Swaziland has failed to produce enough food to feed itself for the past four decades.

China seems to hold a generally dim attitude towards India and Indians.

Five months after a Taliban shooting attack, Malala will study a full curriculum at the Edgbaston school and will go on to sit for her GCSEs.

The book suggests that a huge vortex of mindless incivility lurks just beneath a pleasant veneer of French society.

Seevakumaran is believed to be of partial or full East Indian descent.

The Supreme Court in India has essentially banned ambassador Mancini from leaving the country until April 2.

The Roman Catholic Church and Hindus have long been at odds.

Cameron sent two of his cabinet ministers, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (a Muslim) and Kenneth Clarke, to the installation in Rome.

The stigmatization and criminalization of the Kanjara is even coded into government legislation.

Indian police have since arrested six men between ages 20 and 25 in connection with the case.

In light of Pope Francis’ concerns about the poor, he may make a far simpler entrance -- by walking in, among the huge crowds.

Pakistan’s military has ruled the country for about half of the time since its independence from Britain.

During his time, Tagore enjoyed considerable global acclaim on par with his Indian contemporary Mahatma Gandhi.