Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst natural disaster, the government has

India's competition investigators have accused Google of abusing its market dominance in online searches in the country, deepening the US Internet giant's

Sri Lanka's president urged the new parliament yesterday to take "difficult political decisions" to bring about ethnic reconciliation six years after the end of a decades-long separatist war.

At least eight people were killed and 27 injured when protesters went on the rampage during a general strike called by students' unions in northeastern Indian state of Manipur overnight over controversial tribal rights laws, media reports said yesterday.

Iran is eyeing wider trade cooperation with Bangladesh especially in energy sector as the sanctions imposed on Iran are set to be withdrawn.

India's Supreme Court yesterday suspended an order of the Rajasthan high court banning santhara - the controversial Jain ritual of fasting unto death. Earlier

Returning to power in 1980, the then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi had considered a military strike on Pakistan's nuclear installations to prevent it from acquiring weapons capabilities, a declassified CIA document has claimed.

India's economy grew at an annual rate of 7% between April and June, official figures have shown.

National Human Rights Commission of India asks the Indian government to pay Rs 5 lakh in compensation to the family of Felani Khatun, who was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) in January 2011.

The Supreme Court clears the way for the lower court to resume trial proceedings of a graft case against BNP leader Mirza Abbas.

Obama is set to announce that Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, will officially revert back to its original name of Denali.

Gunmen armed with automatic weapons early yesterday attacked a small airport in Pakistan's remote and restive southwest province of Baluchistan, killing an

Amid rising tensions and firing on the Line of Control, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice is in Islamabad for a day-long visit to discuss “regional security

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday announced he was ditching an executive order aimed at making it easier for business to buy land, in a major

A schoolboy drowned in a canal in Mahiganj-Ershadnagar area of the city on Saturday night.

The government of India works on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to "persecuted" Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Myanmar has set a minimum wage of 3,600 kyat ($2.80) for an eight-hour work day.

At least 10 civilians were killed yesterday as India and Pakistan traded fire across their disputed border, officials said, less than a week

The share of Hindus in India’s total population has recorded a marginal decline between 2001 and 2011 while that of Muslims has increased slightly over the same period, according to the latest census data on the religious profile of the country.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to government requesting it to scrap Section 57 (1) of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act which has come under severe criticism recently.