News stories by Sudeshna Chowdhury

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 08 (IPS) - The village of Hampi located in India's southern state of Karnataka has long been an attraction for tourists from all over the world.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 18 (IPS) - In a recent report to the U.N. Security Council, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged the possibility of poaching as a threat to not just wildlife or endangered species, but to the greater stability and peace in general.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - A long-awaited study on congenital birth defects by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq is expected to be very extensive in nature.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - Malala Yousafzai and Muhammad Qasim have a lot in common.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 04 (IPS) - For the small town of Kafranbel in Syria, the old saying "a pen is mightier than a sword" still rings true. Every week in Kafranbel, protesters draw posters, write banners and demonstrate against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (IPS) - Untold thousands dead and thousands more stranded or missing - these are the latest figures from various reports on the devastation caused by flash floods in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

NEW YORK, Jun 26 (IPS) - A bomb blast on a road. A suicide attack near a grocery store. Such is the uncertainty for ordinary men and women in Afghanistan, where daily life is still marred by violence.

NEW YORK, Jun 20 (IPS) - A brick red, six-story tenement house, St. George Melkite Church and a community house in desperate need of repair are nearly all that remain of a once thriving Arab-American community in downtown New York City.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 (IPS) - As the situation in Myanmar deteriorates, thousands of Rohingyas have fled the country in search of a safe haven.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - Kevin's Carter's disturbing picture of the 1993 famine in Sudan won him a Pulitzer Prize.