UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged protesters in Nepal to stop blocking essential supplies and called for dialogue to resolve differences.

Delhi boy Chetan Kakkar has set a new record for international placement for Delhi Technological University (DTU) by grabbing an offer of $1,90,000 (Rs 1.27 crore approx) per annum from Google, reports The Times of India.

Janata Dal-United's Nitish Kumar, whose Grand Alliance with former rival Lalu Prasad saw them storming to power in Bihar, was sworn in

Chinese police kill 28 members of a "terrorist group" in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, in the bloodiest such operation in months and as Beijing denounces Western "double standards" in the wake of the Paris attacks.

At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Biyanibazar

A tourist drowned in the Piyain River at Jaflong in Gowainghat upazila of the district on Friday. The deceased was

Four South Asian countries -- Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) -- are planning to launch a new passenger bus and cargo service soon, announced Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali.

A number of leaders, including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, will attend Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar oath-taking ceremony being described as "a new beginning of opposition unity in the country".

Eight youths were jailed for stalking in Jhenidah and Bogra districts on Tuesday and the day before.

The Maldives parliament sacked the chief prosecutor shortly after the government bowed to international pressure and lifted a state of emergency imposed

Expressing concern over the obstruction of essential supplies to Nepal, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called on "all sides" to lift the blockade at the Indo-Nepal border immediately invoking the landlocked country's right of free transit.

Two days after the BJP suffered a shocking defeat in Bihar, the veterans in the party have hit out at the leadership.

Eminent writers, scholars and cultural activists have issued a joint statement voicing frustration over failure to bring the killers of writers and free thinkers to justice.

Airlines in Nepal have been forced to cancel more than half of their domestic flights because of an ongoing fuel shortage, an official said

Indian financial markets took fright yesterday at the humiliating defeat suffered in the pivotal Bihar election by Prime Minister Narendra

The government yesterday reminded the opposition that the victory of the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar's assembly polls should not be

Sri Lanka's police minister resigned yesterday following allegations he tried to shield a private security firm under investigation for gun

Nestle relaunches its popular Maggi noodles in India, five months after a food scare saw them taken off shelves.

Myanmar's ruling party concedes defeat in the country's general election as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appears on course for a landslide victory.

Taking a dig at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over NDA's setback in Bihar, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said that the prime minister should "step on the accelerator or people will throw him out of the driver's seat" even as he hailed the defeat of the "divisive agenda of BJP and RSS" in the assembly polls.