"Politics should never override policy." This was the message of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to IAS officers as a young batch met him

A welfare state cannot allow anybody to die for the reason that he cannot afford treatment, the High Court of Kerala has said.

An Afghan police official says that Taliban insurgents have killed at least 20 civilians after they were abducted in a remote central province.

As ISIS loses ground in Middle East, there are fears it will take its fight elsewhere, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines.

Pakistan mourns the killing of at least 61 people in a brutal gun and suicide bomb assault on a police academy, the deadliest attack on a security installation in the country's history.

Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead an intelligence officer in northwest Pakistan yesterday, police said, in an attack claimed

At least 21 Maoists killed by Indian security forces in an encounter at Malkangiri located in eastern state of Odisha, NDTV reports.

Vinay Prabhakar MP, vice-president of Indian ruling party BJP, terms Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina a rare leader of the entire subcontinent.

Amnesty International yesterday protested a "reprehensible" ruling by Pakistan's Supreme Court that said schizophrenia is "not a

Pakistan has banned all Indian content on television and radio networks, media regulators said yesterday, its latest salvo after recent scuffles in the disputed Kashmir region spilled into the world of Bollywood and celebrity.

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday issued notice to Nawaz Sharif and his family members in the ' Panama Papers' leaks case, acting on petitions seeking his disqualification over alleged corruption and illegally possessing assets abroad.

At least eight workers were killed yesterday in a huge explosion set off by a blaze at a fireworks factory in southern Indian, police said.

The head of Nepal's anti-corruption commission has been suspended after lawmakers accused him of abusing his position and lodged a

An Indian court yesterday upheld appeals by 14 Hindus convicted over the massacre of 33 Muslims burnt alive during some of the worst religious unrest the country has seen since independence.

Pakistan yesterday welcomed an offer by US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to ease tensions with nuclear-armed rival India over ongoing unrest in Kashmir, which both claim as their own.

Pakistan will ban all Indian content on television and radio channels from Friday, its media regulator says, stepping up media tit-for-tat bans that followed a spike in tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Accusing politicians of causing a great harm to the country, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak recently endorses Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s statement that Islamabad’s roads were probably being built through revenue earned from Chittagong’s jute fields.

Wily Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah wishes a Test face off with magician Indian offie Ravichandaran Ashwin in a battle of two fast wicket-taking spinners.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged BRICS leaders yesterday to take a strong united stand against the "mothership of terrorism" in the South Asian region, in a thinly veiled reference to Pakistan.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi brands Pakistan a "mother-ship of terrorism" at a summit of the BRICS nations, testing the cohesion of a group whose heavyweight member China is a close ally of its South Asian arch-rival.