Nepal's Maoist prime minister resigned yesterday as part of a planned handover to a former political foe who will be the impoverished

Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' steps down from his post, honouring the agreement reached with the ruling partner Nepali Congress (NC) before forming the coalition government.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is accorded a warm reception as she arrived Saudi Arabia on a four-day official visit to join the Arab Islamic-American (AIA) Summit at the invitation of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

The UN's top court yesterday ordered Pakistan to stay the execution of an Indian national convicted of spying, in a decision hailed by

Indian Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave passes away in New Delhi this morning at the age of 60.

India’s Union Cabinet approves the setting up of 10 indigenous pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) for nuclear power generation. At present India generates 6,780 MW (6.78 gigawatts) from nuclear power but hopes to dramatically expand its capacity to 63 GW by 2032.

India is ranked second after China in latest "renewable energy country attractiveness" index from Ernst & Young. The US which was number two last year has slid down to number three position and Germany maintained its number four position.

A six-foot-long snake was found hiding under a water cooler in the water filtration plant of Taj Mahal in the Indian city of Agra.

Sri Lanka's failure to address its wartime past nearly a decade after its bloody conflict jeopardises any hope of a lasting peace in the

India's exports revival continued for the eighth successive month, recording 19.77 percent growth during April 2017, official data shows.

Pakistan yesterday wrote to the UN again, this time claiming that India is attempting to "change Kashmir's demographic", Pakistani media reported.

Nepal held local level polls yesterday, the first since 1997 and a key step in the country's rocky transition to democracy over a decade since the end of the civil war.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) was last a battleground for India and Pakistan nearly 18 years ago when Islamabad sought its intervention over the shooting down of its naval aircraft.

Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto's daughter yesterday sharply criticized the hypocrisy of her country allowing terrorists

Six Indian climbers reached the top of Mount Everest yesterda, the first group to summit the world's highest peak this season. The team

Gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on construction workers, killing 10 in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan,

Heavy shelling killed two people, including a teenager, in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday, an official said, in the latest deadly

Nepal holds its first local elections in two decades today hoping to cement a fraught transition to democracy and fill an institutional

Indian police arrested three people in Kanpur suspected of illegal betting on cricket matches, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Thursday, a day after the city hosted its first Indian Premier League (IPL) game of the season.

A building wall collapses onto guests at a wedding in western India, killing at least 22 people, police say.