French President Francois Hollande vowed yesterday not to weaken his resolve against terrorism as he held talks with India's leader on

India signs a deal with France to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has promised to "bury" the Islamic State (IS) militant group, whose local offshoot has clashed with government forces and Taliban fighters.

Amit Shah has been re-elected president of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the next three years.

Nepal's ethnic minorities have rejected a constitutional amendment, dashing hopes of an end to a political crisis that has led to fuel shortages and hampered deliveries of relief materials to survivors of last year's earthquakes.

The Taliban faction behind a massacre at a university in northwest Pakistan this week issues a video message Friday vowing to target schools throughout the country.

As grieving Pakistani parents lament the government's failure to keep their children safe, analysts say the Taliban have sent a message with their latest campus massacre -- a national crackdown on extremism has failed and they can hit targets at will.

Nepal police said yesterday they fired on demonstrators, killing three, after fresh violence erupted in the country's southern plains where ethnic minority protesters have mounted a months-long battle over a new constitution.

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed landed in Britain yesterday, his aide told AFP, after the Indian Ocean islands' government granted him prison leave for urgent surgery.

Legendary classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai has died at the age of 97 in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

A rocket fired from Afghanistan hit a shop in a restive Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan border yesterday, killing three people, officials said. The

In the tiny hamlet of Mawlynnong in India's far north east, plastic is banned and spotless paths are lined with flowers -- but its reputation as Asia's cleanest village has proved a mixed blessing.

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) have agreed to begin discussions on the possibility of having a BBIN Rail Agreement drawing on the draft Saarc Regional Rail Agreement template.

21 people die in a Taliban assault on a university in Pakistan Wednesday, where witnesses report two large explosions as security forces move in under dense fog to halt the bloodshed.

Talks between the Nepali government and minority groups to resolve a dispute over a new constitution have fallen apart, opposition

Police in India's Madhya Pradesh state yesterday arrested some members of a Hindu group for attacking a Muslim couple on suspicion that they were carrying beef.

Pakistani authorities have shut down several religious schools run by the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group accused of masterminding an attack this month on an air base in India, the provincial law minister said yesterday.

Sri Lanka's prime minister yesterday promised greater political power to the island's Tamil minority under a new constitution aimed at preventing a return to ethnic war and healing the wounds of the past.

New Delhi yesterday wrapped up a trial of draconian driving restrictions that has taken around a million cars off the roads and seen even judges and diplomats

India's capital Delhi ends a two-week trial that imposed major restrictions on private cars to curb alarming levels of pollution.