Police in Tehran have raided more than 400 Internet cafes and other shops as part of a campaign against what they call inappropriate and un-Islamic conduct. Iranian state media quote the police as

>> The World Food Programme is working with the Ethiopian government to extend drought insurance. The US $230 million insurance will cover about 6.7 million people, which will be disbursed in case

In what appears to be another blow to Iranian intellectual life, police in Tehran have shut down six bookshop-cafes, and others may be in line for closure. The head of the Tehran police information

The chief of Zimbabwe's national broadcast body has admitted that there is political interference in editorial policy. "We have been reporting on the basis of deception,' said Henry Muradzikwa,

Iran's food and drink industry is the top polluter of the country's water resources, says a World Bank report. The report, The indices of world development, on water pollution around the world,

there have been umpteen theories on why South Asians are more at risk of developing vascular diseases. Now a team of Indian, Canadian, Scottish and Iranian researchers have come up with a new

Mobile alert Cellular companies in Pakistan have turned a deaf ear to the Sindh government's April 5 directive seeking them to shift base stations' antennas and mobile phone towers outside

Officials from India and Pakistan recently signed an agreement on "reducing the risk from accidents relating to nuclear weapons'. The pact, signed in the presence of foreign ministers Pranab

As the Alborz Dam in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran nears completion, Iranian cultural heritage experts have raised concerns regarding its possible consequences on the historic Lafurak