Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst natural disaster, the government has

Sri Lanka's president urged the new parliament yesterday to take "difficult political decisions" to bring about ethnic reconciliation six years after the end of a decades-long separatist war.

At least eight people were killed and 27 injured when protesters went on the rampage during a general strike called by students' unions in northeastern Indian state of Manipur overnight over controversial tribal rights laws, media reports said yesterday.

India's competition investigators have accused Google of abusing its market dominance in online searches in the country, deepening the US Internet giant's

India's Supreme Court yesterday suspended an order of the Rajasthan high court banning santhara - the controversial Jain ritual of fasting unto death. Earlier

Returning to power in 1980, the then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi had considered a military strike on Pakistan's nuclear installations to prevent it from acquiring weapons capabilities, a declassified CIA document has claimed.

India's economy grew at an annual rate of 7% between April and June, official figures have shown.

Gunmen armed with automatic weapons early yesterday attacked a small airport in Pakistan's remote and restive southwest province of Baluchistan, killing an

Amid rising tensions and firing on the Line of Control, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice is in Islamabad for a day-long visit to discuss “regional security

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday announced he was ditching an executive order aimed at making it easier for business to buy land, in a major

The government of India works on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to "persecuted" Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Myanmar has set a minimum wage of 3,600 kyat ($2.80) for an eight-hour work day.

The share of Hindus in India’s total population has recorded a marginal decline between 2001 and 2011 while that of Muslims has increased slightly over the same period, according to the latest census data on the religious profile of the country.

Nepal police shot dead a protester as fresh clashes erupted in the country's southern plains yesterday, a day after an 18-month-old boy and seven officers died during demonstrations against a new constitution.

Violent clashes at a protest in western Nepal have killed at least seven police officers and a child.

Pakistan's bottomfeeding on American aid is about to end unless it terminates its policy of covertly using terrorism to further its

Thailand's police chief yesterday insisted his officers were making "a lot of progress" in the hunt for the Bangkok shrine bomber despite

Sri Lanka's two biggest parties yesterday agreed to form a national unity government committed to "ethnic reconciliation" after a surge

A Pakistani court bans an Indian film about the 2008 Mumbai attacks in response to a petition filed by Mumbai attacks alleged mastermind.

Police in Narsingdi arrest a man on charge of trafficking dozens of youths to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal.