Sri Lanka's minority ruling party urged President Maithripala Sirisena Wednesday to call a snap general election to strengthen its

A 14-year-old girl in India has died and her mother has been seriously injured after they were allegedly thrown from a bus by three men

Rescuers pulled a 15-year-old boy alive from the rubble of Nepal's earthquake yesterday, bringing a rare moment of joy to the ruined capital Kathmandu, five days after a disaster which killed nearly 6,000 people. The rescue of Pemba Tamang, who told AFP that he stayed alive by eating ghee, was hailed as a miracle and greeted with cheers from crowds of bystanders who massed to watch the drama unfold at a ruined guesthouse.

With its sewage system badly damaged, carcasses rotting in the rubble and thousands of people sleeping rough, experts say Nepal

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif yesterday called up PM Narendra Modi and expressed his condolences on loss of lives in India due to

Narendra Modi told reporters on Wednesday that Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, who was away on an official visit to Thailand,

Climbing will resume on Mount Everest by next week after an earthquake-triggered avalanche that left 18 people dead on the world's highest peak, a Nepalese government official said yesterday. Saturday's avalanche that ripped through base camp also destroyed ladders through the treacherous Khumbu icefall higher up the mountain, raising doubts about the future of this year's climbing season.

A US panel tracking international religious freedom has, in its latest report on India, noted that religious minorities in the country were

Sahasra Nagorik Committee, a citizen platform, says that the just concluded Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls were held in a free, fair and credible manner.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expresses "deep regret" over Indonesia's execution of eight people convicted of drug offences.

India has failed to respond to Pakistan's desire for good relations, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said, in rare rebuke of a neighbour with which he has promised to mend ties.

Desperate survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people clashed with riot police in Nepal's capital yesterday, as the United Nations appealed for $415 million for the devastated Himalayan nation.

The Nepal earthquake and its aftershocks have probably triggered many landslides, scientists warn.

Pakistan yesterday carried out its 100th execution since lifting a moratorium on the death penalty last December, in what rights group

Around 250 people are feared missing yesterday after an avalanche hit an area of Nepal that is on a popular trekking route and near the epicentre of a devastating earthquake, a local official said.

At a 12-bed hospital deep in Nepal's Himalayan mountains, Indian Air Force helicopters bring in the casualties of a devastating earthquake that has killed more than 5,000: injured men, women and children plucked from hilltops and inaccessible valleys.

Humanitarian agencies said yesterday they were preparing a large-scale aid operation to earthquake-ravaged Nepal, with more relief planes arriving in the coming hours.

Rescue efforts in Nepal are intensifying after more than 1,800 people were killed in the country's worst earthquake in more than 80 years.

The intensity of tremors that have hit Nepal can be gauged by the fact that after the massive 7.8/9 magnitude first one, it has had 18

Bangladesh government is sending humanitarian assistance to Nepal in the wake of the devastation caused in Nepal by a major earthquake.