Maggi noodles go back on sale in India

Nestle relaunches its popular Maggi noodles in India, five months after a food scare saw them taken off shelves.
9 November 2015, 07:13 AM

Suu Kyi heads for landslide victory in Myanmar polls

Myanmar's ruling party concedes defeat in the country's general election as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appears on course for a landslide victory.
9 November 2015, 04:29 AM

'Tone down your arrogance'

Taking a dig at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over NDA's setback in Bihar, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said that the prime minister should "step on the accelerator or people will throw him out of the driver's seat" even as he hailed the defeat of the "divisive agenda of BJP and RSS" in the assembly polls.
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Modi’s BJP defeated in Bihar polls

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party has been defeated in a stunning outcome to the electoral battle in the country's third-most populous state Bihar where a coalition of regional parties led by Nitish Kumar swept back to power.
8 November 2015, 08:13 AM

India appoints first transgender police officer

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is to hire the country's first transgender police officer after a court cleared hurdles that faced one applicant.
7 November 2015, 07:01 AM

Border crackdown deepens constitutional standoff

Nepal's busiest entry point for goods from India has witnessed a new wave of unrest after police failed to clear a border blockade, the
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM

War with India not an option

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asserted that war with India was not an option, media reported yesterday.
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Factory collapses in Pakistan

At least 18 people were killed and up to 150 trapped yesterday when a factory collapsed near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said, adding to a number of industrial disasters to hit the South Asian nation.
4 November 2015, 20:48 PM

SRK should go to Pakistan, says BJP MP

Controversial Bharatiya Janata Party MP Yogi Adityanath yesterday compared Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan with Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai carnage, over his “extreme intolerance” comment.
4 November 2015, 20:45 PM

Shah Rukh a Pakistani agent, Indian VHP leader says

Terming Indian film star Shah Rukh Khan a “Pakistani agent”, controversial Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Sadhvi Prachi says he should be sent to that country, a day after the actor added his voice to the protest against “extreme intolerance”.
4 November 2015, 07:27 AM

Odisha man breaks own Guinness record by smashing 92 green coconuts

Martial arts expert Keshab Swain breaks his own Guinness world record of smashing 85 green coconuts with his elbow in one minute in Bhubaneswar, Indian state of Odisha, which he set in 2012, reports The New Indian Express.
2 November 2015, 06:00 AM

Bomb kills at least three on Pakistan train

At least three people were killed and 12 wounded when a passenger train hit a bomb planted on a railway track in southwest Pakistan
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Delhi starts 'pollution toll' for trucks

Delhi yesterday introduced a toll for all trucks and commercial vehicles in an attempt to improve air quality in the world's most polluted
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Maldives rejects FBI report

The Maldives government insisted yesterday its president had survived an assassination attempt on his boat even though the FBI found no
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Sahitya Akademi urged to reinvent itself

Indian writers including those who had returned their Sahitya Akademi awards yesterday wrote to the National Academy of Letters urging
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Stay alert to election fraud

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told tens of thousands of supporters yesterday to be vigilant against election fraud during a
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Modi pays tribute to Indira Gandhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday paid tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 31st death anniversary. “Tributes to
31 October 2015, 18:00 PM

India beef film removed from festival

A documentary on beef eating habits in India has been withdrawn from a Delhi film festival for "technical" reasons, its organisers have said.
30 October 2015, 14:11 PM

Indian hanged girls: Court rejects probe ruling out rape

An Indian court has rejected a federal police report which had ruled that two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in India last year took their own lives and were not gang-raped and murdered.
29 October 2015, 08:54 AM

India says top militant killed in disputed Kashmir region

Indian security forces in Kashmir killed on Thursday a top commander of Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), who allegedly was involved in several attacks in the disputed region in recent years.
29 October 2015, 06:54 AM