Chitra /Ardhachitra /Chitrabhasha
Standardized aesthetic norms appeared in South Asian art from about the fifth century CE, coinciding with the Gupta hegemony of the subcontinent (c. 320–c. 520...
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South Asians in Southeast Asia
The migration of South Asians (migrants from the Indian peninsula as well as their descendants who have consciously retained a distinct ethnic and cultural identity in S...
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South Asians, Overseas
Overseas South Asians—people of South Asian descent residing outside South Asia—numbered 20 million in the year 2001, comprising about 2 percent of the population ...
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Floodwaters across south Asia began to recede Sunday as torrential monsoon rains eased, allowing doctors to treat scores of people suffering from waterborne diseases and deliver medicine to prevent...
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Teeming monsoon rains have inundated wide swaths of northern India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing at least 166 people and washing away villages and farmland that 19 million people depend on, o...
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- - - - MINGORA, Pakistan - A suspected roadside bomb attack killed
18 soldiers and wounded 25 in a northwest Pakistan region where
a Taliban-style movement has taken root and the military has
boo...
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- - - - MINGORA, Pakistan - Pakistani troops killed up to 60
Islamist militants during fierce fighting in the Swat valley in
the country's northwest, the army said, and the insurgents
called a tru...
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- - - - KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan and NATO-led troops killed
some 20 Taliban fighters in an operation close to the main
southern city of Kandahar after an insurgent move to capture
the distri...
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- - - - COLOMBO - Tamil Tiger political wing leader S.P.
Thamilselvan was killed in a Sri Lankan air force raid, the
rebels said, in what analysts warned was a body-blow to any
hope of ending the c...
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- - - - DHAKA - A severe cyclone killed at least 328 people in
Bangladesh, triggering a 15-foot (5-metre) high tidal surge
that devastated three coastal towns and forced the evacuation
of nearly o...
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- - - - NEW DELHI - India has cancelled a $600-million deal to buy
197 military helicopters from EADS and may offer the contract
to other bidders, the Defence Ministry said. - - - - KATHMANDU - A ...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Four Swedish nationals were Tuesday honoured
with a special medal by King Carl XVI Gustaf for their service during
the 2004 tsunami disaster, the royal pal...
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Chitra /Ardhachitra /Chitrabhasha
Flooding eases around South Asia region
