Friday, September 4, 2009

Events in pics (Sub - Continent)

Posted by Sarah Kathy at Friday, September 04, 2009


Ladies on their way back after purchasing wheat flour bags on government controlled rates at Sasta Ramzan Bazaar in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.



Nepalis and Tibetans-in-exile walk past the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu. Around 400 Tibetans gathered at the Stupa to mark the 49th Tibetan Democracy day. The occasion marks the 49th anniversary of Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama's efforts to transform Tibetan society into a democracy.



A rickshaw puller rests in Katmandu's Durbar square during the week-long Indra Jatra festival in Katmandu, Nepal



People fill their containers with drinking water supplied from the municipal corporation tanker in the central Indian city of Jabalpur



Smoke billows from the chimneys of a power station in New Delhi. India's greenhouse gas emissions are expected to jump to between 4 billion tonnes and 7.3 billion tonnes in 2031 but the Asian power's rapid economic growth will be sustainable, a government-backed report said



People stand in queue to get examined for suspected swine flu at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh health ministry said the country has reported 200 cases of swine flu



A Bangladeshi fruit vendor waits for customers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Dhaka, Bangladesh



A poppy billboard is seen in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan's opium production fell 10 percent last year and prices are at their lowest in a decade, meaning 'the bottom is starting to fall out' of the world's largest opium market, the U.N. said



An elderly Afghani man returns home after a day's work, in Kabul, Afghanistan



Vegetables are displayed for sale in the central market in Colombo. The signs indicate the prices of the vegetables per 500 grams. Sri Lanka's consumer prices slowed to 0.9 percent in August from a year earlier, the same record low level it hit in June due to a fall in food prices, government data showed

 

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