The Wages Of Fear

The Brahmaputra river has turned 51-year-old Prafulla Saharia into a refugee. In 2007, it eroded his village Malhu, his home and 70 bighas of farm land. Since then, erosion forced him to move home thrice. The daily wage labourer now fears village Lengeribori, where is now staying, will be gobbled up by the swollen Brahmaputra any day.

A guest faculty-sports officer at a government college in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria district committed suicide at his rented house on Monday as protests in the state over unpaid wages of guest teachers at colleges entered its 65th day today. Sanjay Kumar's family says he was under constant fear of losing his job.

Pakistan is collecting data of its nationals who are suspected of waging jihad abroad along with terror groups, a senior official said, amid fears of blowback from them especially after the defeat of the ISIS in parts of Iraq.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vowed Wednesday to wage a "house-by-house fight" against Zika, the virus blamed for causing a surge in brain-damaged babies and sowing fear ahead of the 2016 Olympics.

A chilling video depicting the apparent murder of a US journalist by jihadists is just the latest salvo in an online war being waged by extremists on social media sites.

Ukraine's military suffered heavy casualties in a stepped-up offensive on pro-Russian rebels on Monday, as Europe and the head of the UN made a last-ditch diplomatic effort to reel the country back from the brink of civil war.

Films by master directors like Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Vittorio De Sica are being screened at the ongoing Film Utsav, organised by Lalit Kala Akademi.

Fearful of joining the one in four workers out of a job, Spanish employees are accepting ever deeper salary cuts as they pay the price of the economy's growing competitiveness.

Once they were heroes, cloaked justices at the vanguard of a powerful revolt against military rule in Pakistan, buoyed by pugnacious lawyers and an adoring public. But now Pakistan's Supreme Court is waging a campaign of judicial activism that has pitted it against an elected civilian government, in a legal fight that many Pakistanis fear could dam...

The Brahmaputra river has turned 51-year-old Prafulla Saharia into a refugee. In 2007, it eroded his village Malhu, his home and 70 bighas of farm land. Since then, erosion forced him to move home thrice. The daily wage labourer now fears village Lengeribori, where is now staying, will be gobbled up by the swollen Brahmaputra any day.

A guest faculty-sports officer at a government college in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria district committed suicide at his rented house on Monday as protests in the state over unpaid wages of guest teachers at colleges entered its 65th day today. Sanjay Kumar's family says he was under constant fear of losing his job.

Pakistan is collecting data of its nationals who are suspected of waging jihad abroad along with terror groups, a senior official said, amid fears of blowback from them especially after the defeat of the ISIS in parts of Iraq.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vowed Wednesday to wage a "house-by-house fight" against Zika, the virus blamed for causing a surge in brain-damaged babies and sowing fear ahead of the 2016 Olympics.

A chilling video depicting the apparent murder of a US journalist by jihadists is just the latest salvo in an online war being waged by extremists on social media sites.

Ukraine's military suffered heavy casualties in a stepped-up offensive on pro-Russian rebels on Monday, as Europe and the head of the UN made a last-ditch diplomatic effort to reel the country back from the brink of civil war.

Films by master directors like Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Vittorio De Sica are being screened at the ongoing Film Utsav, organised by Lalit Kala Akademi.

Fearful of joining the one in four workers out of a job, Spanish employees are accepting ever deeper salary cuts as they pay the price of the economy's growing competitiveness.

Once they were heroes, cloaked justices at the vanguard of a powerful revolt against military rule in Pakistan, buoyed by pugnacious lawyers and an adoring public. But now Pakistan's Supreme Court is waging a campaign of judicial activism that has pitted it against an elected civilian government, in a legal fight that many Pakistanis fear could dam...