A bomb blast has killed 70 people at a hospital in the city of Quetta in south-west Pakistan, officials say. Dozens of people are injured in the attack, which happened at the entrance to the emergency department where the body of a prominent lawyer shot dead earlier on Monday was being brought.

Rescuers were yesterday searching for a family of six feared trapped in a building that collapsed and killed two people on the outskirts of

A Pakistani man expelled from Italy for allegedly plotting an attack in the name of the Islamic State (IS) group used to captain the

Indian Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday used the Saarc platform to take on Pakistan over terrorism saying it posses the biggest challenge to peace the region.

The Maldives yesterday brushed off warnings from Western governments that a new defamation bill risked undermining basic freedoms

At least nine people who were helping construct a new building are feared killed after a part of the 13-storey building collapsed in Pune, reports NDTV.

A couple from India's Dalit community are hacked to death after a row over a 15 rupees (22 cents; 16 pence) debt in Uttar Pradesh state.

A northern Indian state of Uttarkhand will soon begin a multi-million dollar search in the Himalayas for a mythical plant believed

Gunfire echoes through a dusty northwest tribal town, the soundtrack to Pakistan's biggest arms black market, where

A northern Indian state will soon begin a multi-million dollar search in the Himalayas for a mythical plant believed to hold life-

Pakistan's sustained support to cross-border terrorism will be raised by India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh during his two-day

An axe-wielding shopkeeper hacked a couple to death in northern India yesterday after they failed to pay a debt of 22 US cents,

Eminent writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi passes away at a Kolkata nursing home following prolonged illness. She was 90.

An Indian court yesterday acquitted Bollywood superstar Salman Khan of killing protected wildlife 18 years ago, ending the latest long-

Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Oli resigns minutes before parliament was to vote on a no confidence motion he was likely to lose.

At 65, Tamil cinema superstar and a grandfather in real life, Rajinikanth, packs a mean punch in his new film Kabali, an action-packed gangster drama, which opened on Friday.

An Indian woman working for an international NGO, who was abducted in Kabul last month by suspected militants, has been rescued, the country’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said today.

Dhaka and New Delhi open the newly-constructed modern integrated check post at Benapole-Petrapole point of India-Bangladesh border, in a bid to facilitate increased trade between the two countries.

A Pakistani social media celebrity whose selfies polarised the deeply conservative Muslim country has been murdered by her brother in a suspected honour killing, officials said Saturday, prompting shock and revulsion.

Within only a few weeks of Sonar Bangla Express inauguration, complaints have surfaced. The authorities might term the express as a luxury train, but their definition of ‘luxury’ comes into question.