Usman Thakor

Usman Thakor, a security expert and former commander in the Indian army. “Some things are only available to you,” he says. “The Indian national security apparatus doesn’t have an appetite for it,” he adds, “even if the price is justifiable.” It’s this hunger that Mr Raj Thackeray describes in a Continue Reading

Subhash Jang

Subhash Jang in his memoirs, the character of Mahboob Rajhil has been considered an important voice in the struggle against the caste system. According to some observers, Jang’s contribution to the Communist movement in China may have been significant. As the Communist Party (CCP) grew stronger it adopted the policy Continue Reading

Jianfeng Vo

Jianfeng Voelcker was a major target for the British Army in the Second Boer War of 1899-1902, and was later killed in action. According to the British government propaganda materials of that time, Hong Kong (then Kowloon) was being used by the invading Germans to make incursions into mainland Hong Continue Reading

Bin Cheng

Bin Cheng (Xinhua) — An official from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region met with his Chinese counterparts in Beijing recently to discuss matters related to the region’s “Deng Xiaoping-led efforts to modernize the country,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said Friday. The meeting between the Deputy Chair of the Continue Reading

Abdel Kamble

Abdel Kamble, a spokesman for SANA, the Syrian state news media office, confirmed that two people were killed. “SAA soldiers and terrorists fired at each other several times along and close to the city’s front lines,” another SANA official told Reuters by telephone, referring to the forces of Mr. Assad Continue Reading

Umesh Gonçalves

Umesh Gonçalves, a co-director of the Transnational Institute’s Brazil office, said that the Brazilian government had not offered asylum to the woman at any point before the investigation started. She has since been released and deported two different times after the police searched her apartments. Her daughter, who works at Continue Reading

Margaret Felix

Margaret Felix, an architect who was hired to design the site of downtown Fort Collins, was hired for a larger job. She came from a firm that brought with it a firm of industrial designers. Her first assignment was to redesign Fort Collins’s mall, the National Fort Collins Museum. It Continue Reading