Rickshaws (or rickshas) are a mode of human-powered transport: a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two persons. The word rickshaw came from Asia where they were mainly used as means of transportation for the social elite. However, in...
Adventurer Nigel Gifford fell in love with India's motorised trikes - the Tuk-Tuks - and fulfilled a dream when he brought one home to Britain, says Jeremy Taylor Living with the Tuk-Tuk Garaging You will have no problem fitting this vehicle in...
Whenever the university student Chris Bath gets into his rickshaw to pedal tourists round Oxford, he is making a poor family in India happy. That is because Chris's employer - Erica Steinhauer, the "rickshaw wallah" of Oxford - has put her money where her...
A burqa-clad woman blew herself up and killed at least 15 people Monday at a crowded police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, police said. It was believed to be the first time a female suicide bomber has struck inside the country.The bombing, which injured 22 others,...
A fire raged through a congested slum in southeastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing at least 21 people, including 10 children, a police official said.At least 10 others were injured in the blaze in the Boubazar slum in central Chittagong, 135 miles southeast of the capital,...
