The yak herders use the voice messaging app to bring missing yaks home collaboratively. Thirty-two-year-old Wangmo from Dangojang hamlet says WeChat has made yak herding much easier.

Two days after Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh hinted that India’s “no first use” for nuclear weapons might not be etched in stone, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday expressed concern about the “safety and security of India’s nuclear arsenal”

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has asked India to immediately lift curfew in occupied Kashmir that has paralysed life across the valley. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi revealed the OIC decision in a video message.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s yesterday started his two-day visit in Bhutan with a message of trust and friendship.

India says one of its soldiers was killed as Pakistan violated the ceasefire by resorting to mortar shelling and small arms firing on forward posts and villages along the de facto border in Rajouri district of Jammu.

Pakistan government has launched a crackdown on sale of Indian movies and banned airing of advertisements for India-made products on television channels in the wake of tensions over the situation in Kashmir.

Around the time Mohammad Sikander Bhat lay dying at home in Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, Shafiq Ahmed was racing to get his pregnant wife to a hospital, negotiating about 85 km (53 miles) of highways through a maze of heavily guarded checkpoints.

A blast at a mosque in southwest Pakistan yesterday killed four people and wounded more than 20, police said, adding the death toll could rise.

A major general serving in Assam Rifles in the north east of India has been dismissed without pension over a case of sexual

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday said that the Indian government’s “fascist tactics” in occupied Kashmir “to smother the Kashmiri liberation struggle will fail miserably”.

The UN Security Council is due to meet behind closed-doors at the request of China and Pakistan to discuss India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, diplomats say.

Gulf Arab countries have remained mostly silent as India’s government moved to strip the Indian-occupied sector of Kashmir of its limited autonomy, imposing a sweeping military curfew in the disputed Muslim-majority region and cutting off residents from all

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday warned of the risks of an “unchecked population explosion” in the nation of 1.3 billion people, the first time he has raised the issue, and called for family planning measures.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday hailed his “path-breaking” move to strip Kashmir of its autonomy, as his Pakistani counterpart warned of possible “ethnic cleansing”.

India yesterday issued a fresh flood alert for parts of the southern state of Kerala, as the nationwide death toll from the annual monsoon deluge rose to at least 244.

India’s move to carve up Kashmir and curtail its autonomous powers has caused division and anger in parts of the far-flung Himalayan region even as followers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejoice.

Pakistan asks the United Nations Security Council to meet over India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

The death toll from India’s monsoon floods has climbed to 202 as heavy rainfall kept pounding coastal regions in the west and south.

The Border Security Force of India and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) exchange sweets and wishes on the occasion of Eid-ul Adha at designated points along the 4,096-km frontier between the two countries.

India's second unmanned moon mission 'Chandrayaan-2' is expected to reach the lunar orbit on August 20 and land on the lunar surface on September 7, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan says.