Air strikes kill 10 suspected militants in Pakistan's northwestern Shawal Valley, intelligence officials say.

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday ordered the immediate dismissal of the parliament, a government spokesman said,

Abducted BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak reaches Teknaf with the BGB delegation that went to Myanmar to bring him back.

The death toll from a heatwave in southern Pakistan rose to 750 yesterday, but the scorching weather showed signs of easing, bringing some respite to the sweltering city of Karachi.

In a remark that is likely to give more ammunition to opposition in the Lalitgate, former Indian home secretary and BJP MP RK Singh yesterday said that "it is absolutely wrong to help a fugitive".

Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Mother Teresa as head of her Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, died yesterday at the age of 81, church officials said.

Nearly 700 people have died in a severe three-day heatwave in Pakistan, officials said yesterday, with medics battling to treat patients as a state of emergency was declared in hospitals.

People in seven South Asian countries including Bangladesh have a higher risk of heart disease at an early age than any other ethnic group.

Indian food safety regulator has issued countrywide alert on adulteration of food items specially packed products like milk, water, oil, reported The Times of India.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan yeterday said the government planned to centralise responsibility for monitoring and

Thousands take part in a mass yoga programme in the Indian capital, Delhi, on the first ever International Yoga Day.

Pakistan's ISI had held Osama bin Laden prisoner for nearly six years in Abbottabad and handed him over to the US in a staged raid, a media report said on Wednesday in new

Four moderate earthquakes with magnitudes between 4 and 5.2 jolted Nepal early on Wednesday, taking the total number of aftershocks to 320 after the devastating

Pakistan yesterday released 113 Indian fishermen after a similar gesture by New Delhi was announced to mark the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Congress yesterday questioned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's continued "silence" in the Lalitgate and asked him to come out of his "meditation" and answer the nation as he too is "liable".

Money held by Indians in Swiss banks fell by over 10 per cent last year to 1.8 billion Swiss franc (about Rs 12,615 crore), amid an enhanced clampdown against the famed

A group of eminent intellectuals in India have expressed deep concern over the "thoughtless articulation of jingoist sentiments" by high-level representatives of the government and BJP in the wake of the Army operation in Myanmar and urged it to disassociate itself from them.

A group of eminent intellectuals in India have expressed deep concern over the "thoughtless articulation of jingoist sentiments" by high-level representatives of the government and BJP in the wake of the Army operation in Myanmar and urged it to disassociate itself from them.

Pakistan yesterday hanged seven prisoners, bringing the total number put to death since executions resumed last December to 160,

The Aam Aadmi Party yesterday dragged the Prime Minister's Office into the raging row over External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj extending help to scam-tainted former IPL chief Lalit Modi alleging that “PMO may have been in the loop“.