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31 August 2026
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Pakistan suspends eight officials after infant ward fire
31 August 2026
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South Asia
Pakistan suspends eight officials after deadly infant ward fire
30 August 2026
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World
Nepal-China flash floods: Race against time to find nearly 3,000 missing
30 August 2026
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South Asia
Inside the human tragedy of Nepal’s flood
29 August 2026
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South Asia
Missing soar past 2,400 in deadly Nepal, China floods
29 August 2026
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South Asia
Lake overflows on Nepal-Tibet border, sparking panic and halting rescue
28 August 2026
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Natural Disaster
I watched my village disappear in an instant
28 August 2026
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South Asia
Hundreds feared dead in Nepal flash floods
28 August 2026
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South Asia
New barrier lake in Nepal raises fresh flood threat, China warns
27 August 2026
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South Asia
'Surgical strikes': BJP, Congress hail Indian army
India’s ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party and main opposition Congress hail the armed forces’ surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the de facto border with Pakistan.
29 September 2016
New trouble looms for Pakistan PM
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces a key choice in the coming weeks about who should run Pakistan's powerful military, one
28 September 2016
Saarc summit: Conducive environment to be created soon
Nepal government says that a conducive environment be created soon to ensure participation of all member states in the 19th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit.
28 September 2016
Boycotting Islamabad Saarc summit Dhaka's own decision: Shahriar
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam says the decision to boycott Islamabad Saarc summit is purely Bangladesh's own decision.
28 September 2016
ADB to give $1.5b for Cox’s Bazar rail link
Asian Development Bank will give $1.5 billion to Bangladesh to extend its rail link and bring the tourism hub district of Cox’s Bazar inside the network.
28 September 2016
Pak House adopts Hindu marriage bill
x In a historic move, Pakistan's parliament has passed the much-delayed bill to enable the country's minority Hindu community
27 September 2016
Pakistan warns of ‘water war’ with India if decades-old treaty violated
Pakistan will treat it as "an act of war" if India revoked the Indus Water Treaty regulating river flows between the two nations, Pakistan's top foreign official says.
27 September 2016
6 top JMB activists held from WB, Assam
Six top Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh activists, including four wanted in the 2014 Khagragarh blast case, are arrested from West Bengal and Assam in India.
26 September 2016
India to ratify Paris climate pact Oct 2
India, the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter, will ratify the Paris climate change pact next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, bringing the deal a step closer to reality.
25 September 2016
Fawad, other Pakistani artistes given 48hrs to leave India
Calls for Pakistani artists to leave India have been growing after the Uri attacks as nationalist party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)’s film wing has issued a 48-hour deadline to all Pakistani artistes to leave the country.
24 September 2016
India buys 36 Rafale fighter jets to counter China
India signs a deal Friday to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets for 7.9 billion euros ($8.8 billion), France's biggest ever such sale, as it seeks to bolster its military against an increasingly assertive China.
23 September 2016
6 militants killed, one army man hurt in India encounter
At least six militants of Karbi Peoples Liberation Tigers (KPLT) are killed and an army man is injured in an encounter with security forces inside a forest in northeastern state of Assam, India, according to the local media reports.
23 September 2016
India obstacle to peace
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lashed out at India over escalating tensions in Kashmir, telling the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that New Delhi was an obstacle to peace.
22 September 2016
Nawaz Sharif at UNGA: Pakistan wants peace with India, urges resolution of Kashmir issue
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly session, says his country wants peace with India but maintained it is "not possible without resolving the Kashmir issue".
22 September 2016
India backs off major retaliation over Kashmir raid, for now
For all the shrill rhetoric immediately following Sunday's attack on an Indian army camp in Kashmir, which New Delhi blamed on Pakistan, the threat of a sudden escalation in hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals has receded for now.
21 September 2016
India's poor fear 'rent-a-womb' industry shut down
At a hostel for dozens of pregnant women, impoverished widow Sharmila Mackwan weighs up her decision to carry twins for another couple -- her only ticket out of poverty -- as the government moves to close India's multi-million dollar surrogacy industry.
19 September 2016
Pak court orders confiscation of Musharraf's property
A Pakistani court trying former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over a deadly raid on Islamabad's radical Red Mosque yesterday
17 September 2016
India naval chief blames France
A massive leak of secret technical data on Scorpene-class submarines did not originate in India but in France, Delhi's naval
17 September 2016
Modi's 66th birthday celebrations aim for 4 records
The 66th birthday of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be celebrated in Navsari district will be a momentous event as the government of India is eyeing three Guinness world records and one national record targeted by organisers.
17 September 2016
Suicide bomber kills 25 in Pakistan mosque
A suicide bomber shouts "Allahu akbar" and blows himself up in a packed mosque in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 during Friday prayers, according to a local official.
16 September 2016