The local government laws for each province, in their current form, provide limited autonomy to the local councils

Maldives is reportedly a focus for jihadi recruitment to the many conflicts in the Maghrib and the Levant

The Chinese play the long game, are far seeing and have their eyes on the prize — business

To secure the next loan tranche, the government will introduce another mini-budget

The series win also confirms that Pakistan’s iron-cast grip on their adopted home of the UAE is as firm as ever

Few would even know what biodiversity was, and it barely gets a mention anywhere in the national school curriculum

The election of Narendra Modi has been a disaster from the human rights perspective

She has been selected for the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for 2015

80 per cent of disputes in the country are settled by the unregulated informal justice sector

The incident will fade from the headlines within days at most, and therein lies the rub