A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor said yesterday.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation today summoned actor and West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress lawmaker Deepak Adhikari, popularly known by his on-screen name Deb, in connection with its probe into a cattle smuggling racket along the border with Bangladesh, said CBI sources.

A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor said Wednesday.

India’s Congress party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today said that it is a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear.

An Indian High Court has urged students and people at large to maintain peace, saying only a “mischievous section will keep the issue burning” as the row over wearing hijab to class spread to various parts of the southern Indian state Karnataka.

The authorities in the southern Indian state of Karnataka today ordered closure of all high schools and colleges for next three days in the BJP-ruled state amidst an ongoing row over wearing hijab.

Indian army rescuers yesterday recovered the bodies of seven soldiers buried in an avalanche while on patrol along a remote Himalayan frontier contested by China.

Chinese scientists say they have developed a new coronavirus test that is accurate as a PCR lab test but gives results within four minutes. Polymerase chain

India convicted 49 people yesterday over a 2008 attack in the western city of Ahmedabad that left dozens dead, in what perpetrators said was retaliation for earlier deadly communal violence.

​​​​​​​Popular fast food joints KFC and Domino’s have apologised following a backlash on social media after separate posts from their Pakistan-based franchises were published in solidarity with Kashmir separatists.

Seven Indian army personnel, who went missing after being hit in an avalanche in the north eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday, have been found dead, the Army said today.

South Korean Hyundai Motor Company today regretted the offence caused to Indians by “unauthorised Kashmir-related social media posts” by its distributor in Pakistan and said the action was against firm’s global policy.

A Himalayan avalanche trapped a patrol team of seven Indian Army personnel in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh near China on Sunday and they

A Myanmar rebel group said yesterday that junta troops attacked its fighters in breach of a ceasefire, accusing the military of trying to destabilise the only region of the country that has seen no post-coup crackdown.

South Korea's Hyundai Motor faced calls on Monday for a boycott of its cars from Indians incensed over a tweet from the account of its Pakistan partner that expressed solidarity for the people of the disputed territory of Kashmir.

At least 19 people were killed by an avalanche on Monday while crossing a remote mountain pass from Afghanistan to Pakistan, a Taliban official said.

Every day for the last three months, an average of six or seven families in Myanmar have posted notices in the country's state-owned newspapers cutting ties with sons, daughters, nieces, nephews and grandchildren who have publicly opposed the ruling military junta.

Former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been discharged and will receive his follow-up treatment as and when required in the future, says the National Heart Institute (IJN).

A prominent journalist in Indian-administered Kashmir has been arrested by police and accused of “glorifying terrorism” and “spreading fake news” in the disputed territory, where a running press crackdown has intensified.

Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shrunk dramatically in the last three decades due to climate change, a new study has shown.