Women running for India’s parliament are barely a blip in the world’s biggest democratic exercise, which began last week and will play out in seven rounds, with results expected on May 23.

The ruling party of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Wednesday it will field a candidate accused of involvement in a

Gunmen killed at least 14 people after forcing them to disembark from buses in Pakistan’s Balochistan, officials said yesterday, in the

Gunmen killed at least 14 people after forcing them to disembark from buses in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, officials say.

Thunderstorms swept across western India killing at least 35 people and leaving widespread damage, officials said yesterday.

India’s election watchdog yesterday banned two outspoken politicians from campaigning in the country’s national vote for making provocative speeches which it said could stir communal unrest.

A co-pilot and two policemen are killed as a Summit Air plane skids off the runway during take-off and collides with two parked helicopters at Lukla airport.

Indian police yesterday said one man was killed and three injured in an attack by a mob while they were skinning a dead ox, in the latest

India is hopeful it will avoid US sanctions over its purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile system, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told

Critics have accused India’s ruling party of promoting communal tensions after a top official promised to rid the country of all “infiltrators” in an apparent swipe at Muslims and other religious minorities.

Nepal has banned the hugely popular but brutal online game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” over concerns about its impact on children, officials said yesterday.

The Dalai Lama left a New Delhi hospital yesterday after three days of treatment for a chest infection, but the 83-year-old will need several days of rest

Judges at the International Criminal Court yesterday turned down a request to open a war crimes probe in Afghani-stan, a week after Washington

The Taliban yesterday announced their annual spring offensive, which comes as the US and Afghan politicians try to negotiate a peace settlement with the Islamist militants.

The first phase of polling for Lok Sabha elections saw long lines of voters in several places but concluded on Thursday with turnouts across 20 states more or less matching the voting percentages recorded in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, according to the Election Commission.

The mega Indian parliamentary elections, whose first phase was held yesterday, saw some interesting snap-shots like a booth for just one voter, Braile election, ‘pardanasheen’ booths for Muslim women for the first time.

Pakistan has escorted a group of foreign journalists and diplomats to the site of an Indian air strike to show that, contrary to Delhi’s claims, no infrastructure was damaged, the military spokesman said.

The Dalai Lama is “doing very well” and will likely be discharged from hospital in New Delhi today as he recovers from a chest infection,

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination for the Rae Bareli parliamentary seat in Uttar Pradesh tomorrow. Sonia, who has

Sixty-six former civil servants have written to President Ram Nath Kovind expressing their concerns over the functioning of the Election