Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accepts an invitation of the West Bengal state government for a reception in her honour.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday wished Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi long and healthy life on his 46th birthday.

India-Pakistan relations are “jatil” (complicated) and talks and terrorism cannot go together, says Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj.

Creating history, the first batch of three female pilots — Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh were

A court in India sentences 11 people to life in prison for their roles in a notorious massacre during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat.

Doctors in India’s Maharashtra have operated on a poisonous snake for nearly two hours and saved its life by taking out a plastic container out of its belly.

Nepal's former Maoist prime minister Baburam Bhattarai announced a new political party yesterday in an attempt to attract legions of voters disillusioned with mainstream leaders.

Police arrested 162 members of a Maoist splinter group across Nepal yesterday for vandalising vehicles and injuring two in a petrol bomb attack while trying to enforce a nationwide strike.

Sri Lanka acknowledged on Wednesday for the first time that some 65,000 people were missing from its 26-year-long war with Tamil Tiger rebels and a separate Marxist insurrection.

Mexico supports India's efforts to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Wednesday, in a boost for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's diplomatic push to end his country's isolation over its nuclear arms programme.

India's transport ministry yesterday admitted it has so far failed to improve road safety but said it was pushing for stricter laws,

In a country known for the widespread use of military unmanned aircraft, the Afghan government moves to restrict the use of camera drones by media companies.

India yesterday got the backing of Switzerland in its bid to become a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group ahead of the elite group's crucial meeting even as the two countries resolved to strengthen cooperation in combating tax evasion and black

Sri Lankan police were yesterday racing to defuse unexploded bombs that fell on villages near the capital overnight and destroyed hundreds of homes, after a huge and deadly fire at an ammunition depot.

The home ministry of India is ready with draft amendments to citizenship law that will exempt minority citizens of Bangladesh and Pakistan who had gone to that country out of fear of religious prosecution from being tagged as "illegal migrants".

At least 21 people, including two policemen, are killed in clashes between police and around 3,000 encroachers at a park of Mathura in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The Japanese boy abandoned in a dense forest by his parents for being naughty has been found alive and unharmed, nearly a week after his disappearance set off a massive search that kept the nation riveted.

A young elephant is rescued from an uncovered drain in Sri Lanka's southern port of Hambantota. The calf appears to have fallen into a drain on the main road leading to the port.

Police yesterday said they arrested five Indians accused of assaulting Africans in New Delhi, after African diplomats urged the Indian

The brother of a man who was killed alongside the Taliban's slain chief Mullah Akthar Mansour in an American drone strike in southwest Pakistan is pressing murder and terrorism charges against US officials, police said yesterday.