Inside the human tragedy of Nepal’s flood
Star Report
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I watched my village disappear in an instant
The Kathmandu Post
28 August 2026 South Asia
Hundreds feared dead in Nepal flash floods
Agencies
28 August 2026 South Asia
New barrier lake in Nepal raises fresh flood threat, China warns
The Kathmandu Post
27 August 2026 South Asia
'Saved by a mango tree': How a Nepali labourer survived deadly flash flood
Reuters, Kathmandu
27 August 2026 Natural Disaster
Nepal says 468 tourists, mainly foreigners, out of contact after floods
AFP, Kathmandu, Nepal
27 August 2026 Natural Disaster
Update / Search for 1,000 missing after Nepal-Tibet floods kill 165
AFP, Nuwakot, Nepal
27 August 2026 South Asia

ADB to give $1.5b for Cox’s Bazar rail link

Asian Development Bank will give $1.5 billion to Bangladesh to extend its rail link and bring the tourism hub district of Cox’s Bazar inside the network.
28 September 2016

Pak House adopts Hindu marriage bill

x In a historic move, Pakistan's parliament has passed the much-delayed bill to enable the country's minority Hindu community
27 September 2016

Pakistan warns of ‘water war’ with India if decades-old treaty violated

Pakistan will treat it as "an act of war" if India revoked the Indus Water Treaty regulating river flows between the two nations, Pakistan's top foreign official says.
27 September 2016

6 top JMB activists held from WB, Assam

Six top Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh activists, including four wanted in the 2014 Khagragarh blast case, are arrested from West Bengal and Assam in India.
26 September 2016

India to ratify Paris climate pact Oct 2

India, the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter, will ratify the Paris climate change pact next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, bringing the deal a step closer to reality.
25 September 2016

Fawad, other Pakistani artistes given 48hrs to leave India

Calls for Pakistani artists to leave India have been growing after the Uri attacks as nationalist party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)’s film wing has issued a 48-hour deadline to all Pakistani artistes to leave the country.
24 September 2016

India buys 36 Rafale fighter jets to counter China

India signs a deal Friday to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets for 7.9 billion euros ($8.8 billion), France's biggest ever such sale, as it seeks to bolster its military against an increasingly assertive China.
23 September 2016

6 militants killed, one army man hurt in India encounter

At least six militants of Karbi Peoples Liberation Tigers (KPLT) are killed and an army man is injured in an encounter with security forces inside a forest in northeastern state of Assam, India, according to the local media reports.
23 September 2016

India obstacle to peace

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lashed out at India over escalating tensions in Kashmir, telling the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that New Delhi was an obstacle to peace.
22 September 2016

Nawaz Sharif at UNGA: Pakistan wants peace with India, urges resolution of Kashmir issue

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly session, says his country wants peace with India but maintained it is "not possible without resolving the Kashmir issue".
22 September 2016

India backs off major retaliation over Kashmir raid, for now

For all the shrill rhetoric immediately following Sunday's attack on an Indian army camp in Kashmir, which New Delhi blamed on Pakistan, the threat of a sudden escalation in hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals has receded for now.
21 September 2016

India's poor fear 'rent-a-womb' industry shut down

At a hostel for dozens of pregnant women, impoverished widow Sharmila Mackwan weighs up her decision to carry twins for another couple -- her only ticket out of poverty -- as the government moves to close India's multi-million dollar surrogacy industry.
19 September 2016

Pak court orders confiscation of Musharraf's property

A Pakistani court trying former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over a deadly raid on Islamabad's radical Red Mosque yesterday
17 September 2016

India naval chief blames France

A massive leak of secret technical data on Scorpene-class submarines did not originate in India but in France, Delhi's naval
17 September 2016

Modi's 66th birthday celebrations aim for 4 records

The 66th birthday of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be celebrated in Navsari district will be a momentous event as the government of India is eyeing three Guinness world records and one national record targeted by organisers.
17 September 2016

Suicide bomber kills 25 in Pakistan mosque

A suicide bomber shouts "Allahu akbar" and blows himself up in a packed mosque in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 during Friday prayers, according to a local official.
16 September 2016

Pak train crash kills four, scores hurt

A Pakistani express train crashed into a freight train yesterday killing at least four people and injuring 93, an emergency rescue service said.
15 September 2016

India offers $1b in fresh aid to Afghanistan

India offered Afghanistan a fresh $1 billion in economic assistance after their leaders met in New Delhi on Wednesday to
15 September 2016

Nasheed in talks with Gayoom

Exiled Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has said he is in talks with the former president, who repeatedly threw him in jail, to "legally topple" the current leader of the troubled honeymoon islands.
15 September 2016

6 killed in Pakistan train accident

At least six passengers were killed and more than 100 others were injured Thursday when a passenger train collided with a freight train near the central Pakistani city of Multan, rescuers and railway officials say.
15 September 2016