Pakistan hangs the former police bodyguard who shot dead Punjab's governor over his opposition to blasphemy laws, officials say.

A 32-year-old man allegedly kills 14 members of his family at their house near Thane in Maharashtra and then commits suicide.

Two people are feared dead after a small plane crashed in western Nepal today, an army official says, just days after 23 people are killed in a similar accident in the Himalayan nation.

Classical Indian dance could be an effective form of therapy for victims of human trafficking and sexual violence, helping them to overcome their traumatic experiences and gain confidence, a pilot study has shown.

India may allow women in ground combat roles in its army, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee hints.

A water crisis in India's capital will take up to two weeks to fix, authorities warned yesterday as taps ran dry, days after protesters sabotaged a canal to demand better treatment for their caste.

Water supplies have been partially restored in the Indian capital, Delhi, after repairs began on a key canal which supplies much of the city.

More than 10 million people in India's capital are without water despite the army regaining control of its key water source after protests, officials say.

Indian political parties, including West Bengal's ruling Party, have agreed to pass a bill in parliament to amend electoral laws to give voting rights to estimated 14,000 people who became Indian citizens following exchange of adversely-held enclaves with Bangladesh.

A third soldier was killed yesterday in an ongoing gunbattle between militants and troops and police in Indian Kashmir, taking the

Indian political parties agree to pass a bill to amend laws for giving voting rights to 14,000 people who became citizens after exchange of enclaves with Bangladesh.

Indian former Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman on Friday claimed he was blocked by Facebook after he had posted a song that he had written in support of the JNU agitation, reports The Indian Express today.

The government has decided to appoint Tarik Ahsan as the high commissioner of Bangladesh to Pakistan.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says her government would urge the federal Indian administration to give citizenship to all Bangladeshis living in the state for five years or more.

With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.

China's foreign ministry urges the United States and North Korea to sit down with each other face-to-face and resolve their problems, as tension continues to climb on the Korean peninsula after North Korea's latest rocket test.

A fierce gun battle killed two soldiers and five suspected militants yesterday in Indian-administered Kashmir near the de facto border with Pakistan, army

In a rare interview India's former prime minister Manmohan Singh criticised his successor Narendra Modi's government for failing to take advantage of lower commodity prices to propel economic growth and an inconsistent policy towards neighbour Pakistan.

A district in north-western Pakistan has banned Valentine's Day celebrations.

The Delhi government plans another round of tough measures to restrict the use of private cars and clean up toxic air in the Indian metropolis, the world's most polluted city.