New Left Review.63. Sept-Oct 1970.Fred Halliday: Counter-Revolution in Yemen; Bill Warren: The British Road to Socialism; Tariq Ali: Class Struggles in Pakistan; Robin Blackburn: The Politics of ‘The First Circle’; Goran Therborn: A Critique of the Frankfurt School. £2 New Left Review...
“Odontotos”. The short route connects a seashore town (Diakofto) with the mountainous Kalavryta plateau (700m altitude), up and through the impressive Vouraikos Gorge. Visited it for the first time recently. I kind of knew that railways were built in 1880s/90s?
Soon after the Romans left, groups of Germanic warriors landed in Britain. They included the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes from what is today Denmark and Northern Germany. They drove the Britons to the mountains of Wales and Scotland, and those who did not flee remained as slaves to th...
$68mil credit came as first international aid since conflict with Pakistan International Development Association was affiliate for International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or World Bank Source: Gerd Wilcke, "INDIA GETS A LOAN FOR RAIL SYSTEM," The New York Times, June 30, 1966. link...
In Pakistan, as elsewhere in the erstwhile third world, the ideas of development economics were palpable to local planners and military rulers by giving saliency to their visions. Development economics enabled independent states, such as Pakistan, to tie infrastructure policies with a mode of rule ...
From the 1950s onward, the rise of immigrants moving to London made it the most diverse city in Europe, these people mainly came from Commonwealth countries like Jamaica,India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Tensions due to mass immigration led to the Brixton Riots in the 80s. ...
A few years later, Indian Railways set about manifesting its own destiny, acquiring the majority of control over railway franchises in 1949-1950. In 1951-1952, it began reorganising the network into zones. The first train between India and Pakistan, the Samihauta Express, began running between...
To thank for this we have the people of the Indus Valley Civilisation, who inhabited parts of present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, and formed one of the three earliest civilisations; the other two were Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Like any good idea, this one quickly spread, though...
The South Asian nation sits poised to benefit from increased investment from Beijing’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a 1,864-mile (3,000-kilometer) network of roads, railways, and oil and gas pipelines between the two countries. The ...
Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (“KTZ”).6The project will help Kazakhstan repair and improve its national railways and expand its fleet of electric railcars while supporting the nation's low-carbon initiatives. These modernizations will improve the speed and reliability of rail transit and ...