Balendra Shah unseats former Nepal PM
8 March 2026, 03:26 AM
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Nepal's rapper-turned-politician looks set for landslide win
7 March 2026, 09:26 AM
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Three-year-old party set to sweep Nepal polls
7 March 2026, 03:33 AM
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RSP ahead in 110 constituencies in Nepal election with three confirmed seats
7 March 2026, 00:10 AM
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Nepal goes to the polls: Voters seek change after youth-led protests
6 March 2026, 03:17 AM
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Nepal's rocky road to elections: Five key dates
2 March 2026, 09:58 AM
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Afghan, Pak forces battle along border
2 March 2026, 02:10 AM
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Pak, Afghan forces clash as diplomatic efforts intensify
1 March 2026, 02:56 AM
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US says it supports Pakistan's 'right to defend itself' against Afghan Taliban
28 February 2026, 08:51 AM
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Pakistan bombs Kabul in 'open war' on Afghanistan's Taliban government
28 February 2026, 08:34 AM
South Asia
Indian soldier killed in Pak firing
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.
17 August 2019, 11:18 AM
Pakistan launches crackdown
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.
16 August 2019, 19:04 PM
4 killed in blast at Pak mosque
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.
16 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Top army official sacked for sexual harassment
A major general serving in Assam Rifles in the north east of India has been dismissed without pension over a case of sexual
16 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Modi’s fascist tactics will fail miserably
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”.
16 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Stories of a birth and a death
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.
16 August 2019, 18:00 PM
UN Security Council to meet today on India's moves in Kashmir
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.
16 August 2019, 06:32 AM
Business ties underpin muted Arab response
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
15 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Indian PM warns of ‘population explosion’
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.
15 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Modi hails Kashmir move
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”.
15 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Fresh flood alert in southern India
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.
14 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Outposts divided
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.
14 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Pakistan asks UN Security Council to meet over India moves in Kashmir
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.
14 August 2019, 04:28 AM
India monsoon floods kill more than 200
The death toll from India’s monsoon floods has climbed to 202 as heavy rainfall kept pounding coastal regions in the west and south.
13 August 2019, 14:36 PM
BGB, BSF exchange sweets, greetings on Eid day
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.
12 August 2019, 13:11 PM
India's Chandrayaan-2 to reach lunar orbit Aug 20
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.
12 August 2019, 12:08 PM
Where mourning is not allowed
In India’s curfew-smothered Kashmir valley, even the freedom to mourn the dead has been shut down.
When his father suddenly passed away this week in Srinagar, Irfan Ahmad Bhat’s grief was compounded by a military lockdown that
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM
KASHMIR CONFLICT SINCE PARTITION
FORMATION OF KASHMIR: The Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), was formed in 1846 under the Treaty of Amritsar signed between the East India Company and Maharaja Gulab Singh. The Maharaja became the founder of the Royal Dogra Dynasty and the
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Death toll hits 95, hundreds of thousands evacuated
The death toll from floods in India’s states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra rose to 95, official figures showed yesterday, as heavy rain and landslides forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes.
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Only 5 of 180 newspapers published
Kashmir has nearly 180 English and Urdu daily newspapers, but only five are publishing these days due to restrictions imposed by Indian authorities to prevent unrest after New Delhi revoked the state’s autonomy.
9 August 2019, 19:34 PM