Narendra Modi told reporters on Wednesday that Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, who was away on an official visit to Thailand,

Climbing will resume on Mount Everest by next week after an earthquake-triggered avalanche that left 18 people dead on the world's highest peak, a Nepalese government official said yesterday. Saturday's avalanche that ripped through base camp also destroyed ladders through the treacherous Khumbu icefall higher up the mountain, raising doubts about the future of this year's climbing season.

A US panel tracking international religious freedom has, in its latest report on India, noted that religious minorities in the country were

Sahasra Nagorik Committee, a citizen platform, says that the just concluded Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls were held in a free, fair and credible manner.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expresses "deep regret" over Indonesia's execution of eight people convicted of drug offences.

India has failed to respond to Pakistan's desire for good relations, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said, in rare rebuke of a neighbour with which he has promised to mend ties.

Desperate survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people clashed with riot police in Nepal's capital yesterday, as the United Nations appealed for $415 million for the devastated Himalayan nation.

The Nepal earthquake and its aftershocks have probably triggered many landslides, scientists warn.

Around 250 people are feared missing yesterday after an avalanche hit an area of Nepal that is on a popular trekking route and near the epicentre of a devastating earthquake, a local official said.

At a 12-bed hospital deep in Nepal's Himalayan mountains, Indian Air Force helicopters bring in the casualties of a devastating earthquake that has killed more than 5,000: injured men, women and children plucked from hilltops and inaccessible valleys.

Pakistan yesterday carried out its 100th execution since lifting a moratorium on the death penalty last December, in what rights group

Humanitarian agencies said yesterday they were preparing a large-scale aid operation to earthquake-ravaged Nepal, with more relief planes arriving in the coming hours.

Rescue efforts in Nepal are intensifying after more than 1,800 people were killed in the country's worst earthquake in more than 80 years.

The intensity of tremors that have hit Nepal can be gauged by the fact that after the massive 7.8/9 magnitude first one, it has had 18

Bangladesh government is sending humanitarian assistance to Nepal in the wake of the devastation caused in Nepal by a major earthquake.

Protesters are being frequently beaten up while the media faces a growing number of death threats in the Maldives, Amnesty International said yesterday, after a fact-finding mission to the honeymoon islands.

At least 14 Indian pilgrims were killed and 25 others injured yesterday when a bus carrying them plunged some 100 metre down from the

A strong earthquake rattles Taiwan and small islands in the far south of Japan, official monitoring sites said, briefly prompting a warning for a 1-metre tsunami for the Okinawa island chain.

India's beleaguered opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday led thousands of angry farmers in a protest in the capital against Prime

A youth pushes his pregnant girlfriend off a cliff near the Nahargarh fort after crushing her face with a stone and then flees, assuming her to be dead.