New barrier lake in Nepal raises fresh flood threat, China warns
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'Saved by a mango tree': How a Nepali labourer survived deadly flash flood
27 August 2026
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Nepal says 468 tourists, mainly foreigners, out of contact after floods
27 August 2026
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Glacial collapse caused seismic activity, 'catastrophic' Nepal floods: USGS
27 August 2026
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Update / Search for 1,000 missing after Nepal-Tibet floods kill 165
27 August 2026
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South Asia
98 dead, hundreds missing as deadly flood hits Nepal-Tibet border
26 August 2026
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South Asia
Nepal PM allowed to wear sunglasses in parliament
26 August 2026
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South Asia
Ex-Pak PM taken back to jail after hospital checks
22 August 2026
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South Asia
Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan back in jail after shorter-than-expected hospital visit
21 August 2026
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South Asia
Update / Imran taken back to Adiala jail after visit to hospital
21 August 2026
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South Asia
Autopsy verifies dead youth as bomber
As police sue two unknown assailants over the Bagmara Ahmadiyya mosque blast in Rajshahi, autopsy report confirms the dead youth as one of the attackers. None of the attackers have been identified yet and none held.
26 December 2015
BJP suspends Kirti for taking on Arun Jaitley
Cricketer-turned lawmaker of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party Kirti Azad was yesterday suspended by the party for publicly targeting Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with allegations of corruption in Delhi's cricket body DDCA.
23 December 2015
BJP suspends Kirti for taking on Arun Jaitley
Cricketer-turned lawmaker of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party Kirti Azad was yesterday suspended by the party for publicly targeting
23 December 2015
‘Terror financing’: Pak diplomat withdrawn from Bangladesh
Pakistan has withdrawn a female diplomat from its high commission in Dhaka following allegations of financing terrorist activities in Bangladesh.
23 December 2015
Cop killed, 2 hurt in Delhi court firing
A policeman is killed, two others injured when unidentified gunmen open fire inside the Karkardooma Court premises in east Delhi, reports NDTV.
23 December 2015
Juvenile crimes: India toughens law
The Indian parliament has passed a bill which allows juveniles between 16 and 18 years of age to be tried as adults for serious crimes like rape or murder. At present, those under 18 can be sentenced to a maximum of three years in a reform facility.
22 December 2015
HR groups call on US to grant asylum to Bangladesh bloggers
A coalition of human rights groups calls on the USA to grant temporary visas to secular writers from Bangladesh after a series of bloody attacks by Islamist militants.
22 December 2015
10 killed as BSF plane crashes in Delhi
Ten people are killed when a small aircraft of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) crashes in Delhi. The plane, a Super King aircraft, was flying to Ranchi, capital of eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. The technicians said to have lost contact with ground control before the crash.
22 December 2015
India FM sues Kejriwal over graft claims
India's finance minister yesterday filed a defamation suit against Delhi's leader who had accused him of large-scale corruption in his
21 December 2015
Delhi court rejects plea to stop release
India's Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal against the release of the youngest convict in a fatal gang-rape, sparking fury from the victim's parents who said the ruling was a betrayal of women.
21 December 2015
Delhi juvenile gang rapist freed amid protests
The youngest convict in the notorious 2012 Delhi gang rape case has been released from a correctional centre.
20 December 2015
Bangladesh static in Human Development Index
Bangladesh’s position remains unchanged in the Human Development Index, according to the 2015 Human Development Report launched by UNDP.
20 December 2015
Sonia, Rahul Gandhi given bail in graft case
A court grants bail to opposition leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul in a case involving the alleged misappropriation of party funds that has become a political flashpoint with the ruling party.
19 December 2015
Honeymoon fight: Man walks off plane, leaves wife behind
A Lucknow-based couple goes to Goa on honeymoon but on the flight back home, they have such a fight that the husband simply walks off the flight at a stopover.
19 December 2015
Lanka revives stalled China-funded projects
Sri Lanka has agreed to restart Chinese-funded projects worth billions of dollars which were suspended following allegations of corruption, the government's main spokesman said yesterday.
17 December 2015
'Al-Qaeda cell' busted in New Delhi
Delhi police have busted a suspected al-Qaeda cell and arrested a founder member of the jihadist group's India wing, officials said yesterday.
17 December 2015
India to buy Russian air defence systems
India's Defence Acquisition Council has cleared the purchase of five S-400 air defence systems from Russia, two defence ministry sources said yesterday.
17 December 2015
Air India technician dies in accident
An Air India technician was killed when the ground staff was sucked into an aircraft’s engine at Chhatrapati Shivaji domestic airport in Mumbai yesterday.
17 December 2015
'Nirbhaya' named
The mother of a student who died after being gang-raped publicly named her daughter for the first time yesterday, in a bid to end the stigma facing sex attack victims in India.
16 December 2015
Every country should govern its own Internet: China
Every nation should have independent authority over its own Internet, Chinese President Xi Jinping says, telling a government-organised conference that "freedom and order" are both necessary in cyberspace.
16 December 2015