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News and information

Daily news from the entire Region

Asia Times Online/South Asia

South Asian Media Net Independent news service created by the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA)

World News (WN) Network Asia, part of news resource on the Internet, with over 5000 global thematic and regional news sites. News from mainstream media providers (BBC, CNN, Reuters) as well as many regional and localized sources in South Asia. More information below.

Daily news from Afghanistan

Afghan Online Press

Daily news from Bangladesh

News Garden Summary of more than 20 Bangladeshi dailies, offered by SDNP, Dhaka



Daily news from Bhutan

Kuensel Online

Daily news from India
Deccan Herald, Bangalore

Ganashakti Online
Newsmagazine, Kolkata
Assam Times, Guwahati

The Tribune, Chandigarh

Daily news from Maldives

MinivanNews.com


Daily news from Nepal

Kantipur online

Daily news from Pakistan

Daily Times, Lahore

The Nation Internet Edition

Friday Times, Lahore

Frontier Post, Peshawar.

Daily news from Sri Lanka

Daily Mirror


OTHER NEWS RESOURCES

WN Asia

World News (WN) Network Asia
WN Asia is part of the International World News (WN) Network, founded in 1995 and launched online in 1998, with the primary objective of being the most comprehensive, one-stop news resource on the Internet. Today, World News has over 5000 global thematic and regional news sites – enhanced by the web’s most comprehensive multilingual search engine. The World News Network attracts 14 million unique users and over 40 million page views/month. A global leader in online news, the World News Network has around 300 media partners, from mainstream providers (BBC, CNN, Reuters) to more regional and localized sources (Al-Jazeera, AllAfrica.com, New Zealand Herald, USA Today, The Guardian), delivering unparalleled coverage on a vast range of subjects.
Some of the focused South Asian WN news sites are:

South Asia Daily South Asia Woman Afghanistan Times Bangladesh Times
Bhutan Post World News India India Maritime
Lanka Post Maldives Globe Nepal Post Pakistan Hello

 

southasia.deDW-World/southasia.de
News and information about India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, by Deutsche Welle – Germany’s international radio broadcaster

 

Guardian Unlimited
U.K. offers newslinks to all quality newspapers and weeklies from Asian countries, as well as collections of articles on Asian topics published in the Brittish quality paper The Guardian. Guardian Unlimited also offers Special Reports pages on India, Pakistan and Kashmir, with links to recommended articles published in the Brittish quality paper The Guardian.

 

A list of other South Asian Newspapers on the World Wide Web. Provided by the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Asia Today
Top news stories from Times of India, BBC, Dawn etc. Provided by The Asia Society.

 

Electronic Journals & Newspapers on South Asia
Provided by SARAI, The South & Southeast Asian Studies Department at Columbia University, New York.

 

ZNet Commentary
ZNet offers quick access to digital articles and other printed material in the form of ”homepages” for leading writers and journalists of high intellect, like John Pilger and Edward Said. Some of them are authorities on South Asia:

Arundhati Roy new
Vandana Shiva
Tariq Ali
Pervez Hoodbhoy

 

SASNET Pages With Links to South-Asia Related Magazines


South Asia journals and magazines
(South Asian, Swedish and International publications)


Academic Journals on South Asia

Newsletters and bulletins connected to South Asia related developmental and political organisations

 

Links to Other SASNET Pages

Articles published on Internet
recommended for reading

New South Asia related books
recommended for reading

South Asia related mailing lists

Practical information before
travelling to South Asia

Useful page including:
Currency converter; Health info; Brittish Foreign Office recommendations; Embassy information; Travel agents, Airlines; Friendship societies, etc.

International organisations and development agencies
working with South Asia

Swedish Developmental organizations
working with South Asia

Swedish Politics and Business
related to South Asia

Swedish companies in India

Political parties in South Asia

South Asia ”think tanks”

 

Other Useful Web Resources
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
English version
Swedish version

 

Youtube

Youtube
Video sharing website where users can view video clips, including a large number with South Asian content

 

SAARC – South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

 

SASNET Country information
Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan
India Maldives Nepal
Pakistan Sri Lanka

 

WWW Virtual Library




Search engines/Research tools

Documentary films published
by Public Broadcasting Service

 

Bath

 

 

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Last updated 2011-02-23