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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The Indian Air Force (IAF) says that there is “irrefutable evidence” that Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman downed a Pakistani F-16 with his MiG 21 Bison aircraft in a dogfight on 27 February.

Ahead of a general election that starts on Thursday, the Election Commission of India (ECI) says it is swamped with hundreds of thousands of such

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling alliance will be just a few seats short of a majority in par-liament, bolstered by a rise in nationalist sentiment over hostilities with arch foe Pakistan

Taliban fighters have killed 12 security forces in the last 48 hours in ongoing fighting in Afghanistan's western province of Badghis, the defence ministry said yesterday.

Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest to remeasure its height, officials said yesterday, hoping to quash persistent speculation that the world's tallest mountain has shrunk.

India's alpha-male Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces three formidable women looking to spoil his chances of winning a new term in elections beginning next week.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveils Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto for upcoming parliamentary polls that says all trade movement with Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan will be conducted through integrated check-posts after completion of 14 more such check-posts by next four years.

Did Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi break election rules by addressing the nation on an anti-satellite test recently? Is it right to have a channel dedicated to the leader? Can the country's armed forces be called "Modi's soldiers"?

There would be 117 all-women polling stations with women polling officials and security staff for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the north eastern state of Mizoram in India.