India's Supreme Court yesterday suspended an order of the Rajasthan high court banning santhara - the controversial Jain ritual of fasting unto death. Earlier

Returning to power in 1980, the then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi had considered a military strike on Pakistan's nuclear installations to prevent it from acquiring weapons capabilities, a declassified CIA document has claimed.

India's economy grew at an annual rate of 7% between April and June, official figures have shown.

National Human Rights Commission of India asks the Indian government to pay Rs 5 lakh in compensation to the family of Felani Khatun, who was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) in January 2011.

The Supreme Court clears the way for the lower court to resume trial proceedings of a graft case against BNP leader Mirza Abbas.

Obama is set to announce that Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, will officially revert back to its original name of Denali.

A schoolboy drowned in a canal in Mahiganj-Ershadnagar area of the city on Saturday night.

Gunmen armed with automatic weapons early yesterday attacked a small airport in Pakistan's remote and restive southwest province of Baluchistan, killing an

Amid rising tensions and firing on the Line of Control, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice is in Islamabad for a day-long visit to discuss “regional security

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday announced he was ditching an executive order aimed at making it easier for business to buy land, in a major

The government of India works on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to "persecuted" Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Myanmar has set a minimum wage of 3,600 kyat ($2.80) for an eight-hour work day.

At least 10 civilians were killed yesterday as India and Pakistan traded fire across their disputed border, officials said, less than a week

The share of Hindus in India’s total population has recorded a marginal decline between 2001 and 2011 while that of Muslims has increased slightly over the same period, according to the latest census data on the religious profile of the country.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to government requesting it to scrap Section 57 (1) of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act which has come under severe criticism recently.

Nepal police shot dead a protester as fresh clashes erupted in the country's southern plains yesterday, a day after an 18-month-old boy and seven officers died during demonstrations against a new constitution.

Violent clashes at a protest in western Nepal have killed at least seven police officers and a child.

Police claim to have detained three people with five kilograms of gold and contraband yaba tablets from Dhaka’s railway station.

Pakistan's bottomfeeding on American aid is about to end unless it terminates its policy of covertly using terrorism to further its

Thailand's police chief yesterday insisted his officers were making "a lot of progress" in the hunt for the Bangkok shrine bomber despite