· March, 2011

Stories about South Asia from March, 2011

Hollaback! Mobile Technology Against Street Harassment

  8 March 2011

Based on the premise that "the explosion of mobile technology has given us an unprecedented opportunity to end street harassment," Hollaback! is encouraging women around the world to use the tools available to them to share their stories and geo-locate incidents and reports.

Maldives: Media Misleading People

  6 March 2011

Hassan Ziyau is furious that the Maldives media have twisted and sensationalized news reports of a child being decapitated during birth at IGM hospital, the largest hospital in the Maldives.

Bangladesh: Netizens Protest Removal of Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus From Bank

  5 March 2011

The central bank of Bangladesh ordered the removal of Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the pioneer of Microcredit and the head of Grameen Bank, on the grounds that he had overstayed in his position violating the law. Dr. Yunus is challenging this in court and thousands of supporters are protesting across the country against his removal. Netizens also react.

South Asia: Comparing Indian States with India's Neighbors

  5 March 2011

“India clearly has a coherent identity as the world’s largest democracy, but aggregating economic and social data on the national level, and using it to compare India to its neighbors, is possibly very misleading,” comments Razib Khan at Sepia Mutiny.

India: The Paypal Debate

  5 March 2011

Jaya comments on the recent spat between the Indian central bank – RBI and Paypal, which is failing to work properly in India due to regulations.

Bhutan: Monk Becomes The First Victim Of The Tobacco Act

  5 March 2011

Depending on which way you look at it, the first violator or victim of Bhutan's anti-tobacco act that came to effect in January 2011, was a Buddhist monk who was arrested end of January while trying to enter the country with 72 packets of chewing tobacco from India.

Pakistan: Minority Affairs Minister Assassinated

  3 March 2011

Habib Sulemani at the Terrorland comments on the assassination of Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti in Islamabad: “Besides other segments of the society, human rights groups are mysterious silent on the recent engineered wave of extremism, which has hit hard those people known as liberals.”

Pakistan: Visiting Bangladesh And The Sense Of Loss

  2 March 2011

Pakistani blogger Huma Imtiaz visits Bangladesh and shares her emotions: “we lost a beautiful city, and a wonderful nation with such rich culture and diversity, and we’ve left millions of people with a deep-rooted hatred for what happened to them at the hands of those wearing Pakistan Army uniforms –...

Sri Lanka: Two Fighter Planes Have Crashed

  1 March 2011

Two Kfir fighter jets of Sri Lankan Airforce have crashed. Indi.ca comments: “Wikipedia says that the SLAF had 12 Kfirs as of 2009, meaning that we just lost a significant percentage of our fleet.”

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