Balendra Shah unseats former Nepal PM
8 March 2026, 03:26 AM
South Asia
Nepal's rapper-turned-politician looks set for landslide win
7 March 2026, 09:26 AM
South Asia
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
South Asia
US says it supports Pakistan's 'right to defend itself' against Afghan Taliban
28 February 2026, 08:51 AM
South Asia
Pakistan bombs Kabul in 'open war' on Afghanistan's Taliban government
28 February 2026, 08:34 AM
South Asia
‘Nepal-Bangladesh will be connected by tunnel route’
Nepal’s Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supply, Matrika Prasad Yadav has said that Nepal and Bangladesh will be connected via a tunnel way so as to promote the transnational road connectivity.
30 April 2018, 09:12 AM
Rohingya crisis: PM seeks help from China, Russia, India, Japan
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh expects China, Russia, India and Japan to play a major role in resolving the Rohingya crisis.
30 April 2018, 06:14 AM
AFP journalist among 25 killed in Afghan blasts
Twin blasts in the Afghan capital Kabul kills 25 people, including journalists who had arrived to report on the first explosion and who were apparently targeted by a suicide bomber in a second attack, officials say.
30 April 2018, 04:46 AM
Taliban launch series of attacks
Gunmen killed a provincial deputy governor and three others in an ambush in Afghanistan yesterday, officials said, as the Taliban carried out a spate of attacks across the country after launching their spring offensive.
26 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Indian journos facing more risks, intimidation
India has constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and by some measures the biggest and most diverse media industry in the
26 April 2018, 18:00 PM
13 children killed
At least 13 children were killed and five critically injured yesterday after a train smashed into a small school bus in northern India, an official said.
26 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Pak HC removes FM for breaking election law
A Pakistani court disqualified Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif from parliament yesterday, striking another blow to the ruling Pakistan
26 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Xi, Modi meet to re-set ties
The leaders of India and China are set to make their boldest attempt yet at rapprochement in talks this week just months after a
26 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Formulate specific policy to stop border killings: ASK
Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) opines that the continuation of border killings, torture and harassment are contradictory to international law and human rights.
24 April 2018, 12:55 PM
Indian Jessica killer Manu Sharma ‘forgiven’ by her sister
Twelve years after Manu Sharma was sentenced to life in prison for killing Indian model Jessica Lall for denying him a drink at a party, her sister Sabrina Lall says she "forgives him" and won't object to his release.
23 April 2018, 11:50 AM
Notice for Indian CJ’s impeachment rejected
Indian Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today rejected a notice given by opposition parties led by Congress for impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra citing “lack of substantial merit in it”, sources said.
23 April 2018, 08:06 AM
16 Maoists killed in western India
Indian security forces gun down 16 Maoists in a forest in western Indian state of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district.
23 April 2018, 05:08 AM
Citing Rohingya massacre, Myanmar army chief urges soldiers to obey law
Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing tells military personnel in the country that they must obey the law, citing as an example the sentencing of seven soldiers for a massacre of Rohingya Muslim men that was the subject of a Reuters investigation.
20 April 2018, 07:04 AM
India Supreme Court rejects calls for probe
India's Supreme Court yesterday dismissed petitions calling for an investigation into the death of a lower court judge in 2014 when he was presiding over a case against a top political aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
19 April 2018, 18:00 PM
India raises scope for foreign students
India has thrown open 160 educational institutions of national importance to foreign students in the first-ever initiative of its kind offering 15,000 seats under the programme in the first round.
19 April 2018, 18:00 PM
YouTube helps trace man lost for 40 years
An Indian man missing for 40 years was to be reunited with his family yesterday after a YouTube video of him singing a popular Hindi film song went viral.
19 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Geo TV returning to air after Pak military deal
Pakistan's largest TV station has been allowed back on the air at some major cable operators after talks with the military on demands it make changes in political coverage, two officials who work for the channel's media group told Reuters on Wednesday.
19 April 2018, 18:00 PM
'Something in their hearts against us'
The Muslim nomads who lead their goats, cows and horses up and down the Kashmir hills have never felt at ease in modern India and the gruesome rape and murder of a girl from the impoverished community has heightened their fears.
19 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Hate speech by top politicians skyrockets by 490% in India: NDTV
Indian top politicians have increasingly, by 490% to be exact, used hateful and decisive language in past four years under Modi-led government, a research by NDTV reveals.
19 April 2018, 06:58 AM
Despite changes after 2012 horror, India's rape victims denied speedy justice
India launched fast-track courts and a tougher rape law that included the death penalty after a gruesome assault on a young woman shocked the country in 2012, but crime statistics indicate the situation has got worse, not better, since then.
19 April 2018, 05:07 AM