An Indian mother was fatally stabbed in a Sydney park during a brutal attack as she was on the phone to her distraught husband back home, police said yesterday.

India yesterday said it was working with Sri Lanka's new government to repatriate thousands of ethnic minority Tamils who fled the island during nearly four decades of separatist war.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday condemned the release of a Kashmiri separatist leader from prison, as political uproar over the move hampered his efforts to push economic reforms through parliament.

A Pakistani court yesterday upheld the death sentence handed to the killer of a politician who sought blasphemy law reform, but struck out a terrorism conviction, making it unlikely he will be executed soon.

NDTV broadcast a blank screen with only a flickering lamp in the background for an hour from 9pm to 10pm on Sunday, when it was due to have shown the documentary, "India's Daughter", to mark International Women's Day.

Distinguished Indian journalist and author Vinod Mehta died yesterday after a prolonged illness. He was 73. Mehta, the founder-Editor of 'Outlook' magazine

Indian State-owned ONGC, IOC and OIL are among the five global companies named by the US administration for having energy ties with Iran, for which they can face sanctions by America.

India will strongly take up with Sri Lanka the fishermen issue during delegation-level talks between the two countries, officials said yesterday.

The Executive Committee of the Bar Council of India on Friday midnight issued showcause notice to two defence lawyers for allegedly making derogatory remarks about women in the controversial BBC documentary 'India's Daughter' on the Nirbhaya rape incident.

Several thousand people marched through Kuala Lumpur yesterday to demand the release of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who was jailed last month for five years on sodomy charges.

Australia issued a formal protest to Indonesia yesterday after photos emerged of a smiling senior police officer posing with the two men due to face the firing squad, as it was confirmed that the executions would not happen this week.

A former college student was sentenced to death in Taiwan yesterday for killing four people and wounding more than 20 others in a subway stabbing spree that shocked the island.

Taking strong exception to the telecast of documentary film “India's Daughter” on the BBC, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday said appropriate action will be taken.

Huge new avalanches hit Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley killing at least 286 people so far

India's ruling Hindu nationalist party was sworn into government in the country's only Muslim-majority

More than 180 people die in north Afghanistan in some of the worst avalanches there for 30 years

Sri Lanka were in a tight spot losing out two wickets in the chase of 232 against Afghanistan in the 12th match of the ICC cricket World Cup 2015 at Dunedin

Aid workers called yesterday for a ceasefire to allow the evacuation of people trapped around a town at the centre of fierce fighting between Myanmar's army and ethnic rebels, after the deaths of two more civilians in an area cloaked in a state of emergency.

Former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra was indicted over a bungled rice subsidy scheme yesterday in the latest legal move against her family that could see her jailed for up to a decade.

Energy-starved Pakistanis, their economy battered by chronic fuel and electricity shortages, may soon have to contend with a new resource crisis: major water shortages, the Pakistani government warned this week.