Thunderstorms swept across western India killing at least 35 people and leaving widespread damage, officials said yesterday.

India’s election watchdog yesterday banned two outspoken politicians from campaigning in the country’s national vote for making provocative speeches which it said could stir communal unrest.

A co-pilot and two policemen are killed as a Summit Air plane skids off the runway during take-off and collides with two parked helicopters at Lukla airport.

Indian police yesterday said one man was killed and three injured in an attack by a mob while they were skinning a dead ox, in the latest

India is hopeful it will avoid US sanctions over its purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile system, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told

Critics have accused India’s ruling party of promoting communal tensions after a top official promised to rid the country of all “infiltrators” in an apparent swipe at Muslims and other religious minorities.

Nepal has banned the hugely popular but brutal online game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” over concerns about its impact on children, officials said yesterday.

The Dalai Lama left a New Delhi hospital yesterday after three days of treatment for a chest infection, but the 83-year-old will need several days of rest

Judges at the International Criminal Court yesterday turned down a request to open a war crimes probe in Afghani-stan, a week after Washington

The Taliban yesterday announced their annual spring offensive, which comes as the US and Afghan politicians try to negotiate a peace settlement with the Islamist militants.

The first phase of polling for Lok Sabha elections saw long lines of voters in several places but concluded on Thursday with turnouts across 20 states more or less matching the voting percentages recorded in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, according to the Election Commission.

Pakistan has escorted a group of foreign journalists and diplomats to the site of an Indian air strike to show that, contrary to Delhi’s claims, no infrastructure was damaged, the military spokesman said.

The Dalai Lama is “doing very well” and will likely be discharged from hospital in New Delhi today as he recovers from a chest infection,

The mega Indian parliamentary elections, whose first phase was held yesterday, saw some interesting snap-shots like a booth for just one voter, Braile election, ‘pardanasheen’ booths for Muslim women for the first time.

Sixty-six former civil servants have written to President Ram Nath Kovind expressing their concerns over the functioning of the Election

India's top court yesterday dismissed an appeal to delay the release of a Bollywood biopic about Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said he thinks there may be a better chance of peace talks with India if Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins the general election due to begin there on Thursday.

India's ruling party promised cheap sanitary pads, workplace creches and quotas to get more women into parliament, seeking to woo female voters ahead of a general election.

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination for the Rae Bareli parliamentary seat in Uttar Pradesh tomorrow. Sonia, who has

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