This year has been particularly bad for crowd management in India. At least four major incidents have been widely reported: Kumbh Mela (January 29), New Delhi Railway Station (February 15), Lairai ...

DARJEELING: Environmentalists described the landslides in Darjeeling as a "man-made ecological disaster", the inevitable outcome of decades of deforestation, unplanned urbanisation and poor governance ...

The Myanmar government's continued refusal to facilitate aid to its own people has raised a challenging question: would an invasion for "humanitarian purposes" make things better or worse? We update ...