Lake overflows on Nepal-Tibet border, sparking panic and halting rescue
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I watched my village disappear in an instant
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Hundreds feared dead in Nepal flash floods
28 August 2026
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South Asia
New barrier lake in Nepal raises fresh flood threat, China warns
27 August 2026
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South Asia
'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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Natural Disaster
Glacial collapse caused seismic activity, 'catastrophic' Nepal floods: USGS
27 August 2026
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South Asia
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
Indian ex-president Abdul Kalam's body brought to Delhi
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the body of former President APJ Abdul Kalam at the Palam airport in Delhi a little after noon today.
28 July 2015
Yameen slams foreign meddling in Maldives
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has lashed out at perceived foreign interference in the honeymoon island's affairs, following Western
27 July 2015
'Mumbai attack plotter innocent'
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan yesterday urged India's top court to spare the life of a convicted bomb plotter due to be hanged this
26 July 2015
Catman of West Bengal
Inspired by the show on Discovery channel 'Man vs Wild', Rajkumar Biswas of West Bengal changed his eating habits to things that are raw
26 July 2015
Modi backs call for India to be compensated by British
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has joined a chorus of support for lawmaker Shashi Tharoor, who gave a now viral speech speech
24 July 2015
No more struggling, kids
Children struggling under the weight of an oversized schoolbag is a common sight the world over, but now one Indian state has ordered
24 July 2015
Love affairs behind farmer suicides!
Dowry, love affairs and impotency were among the reasons for the deaths of over 1,400 farmers in India this year, Union agriculture
24 July 2015
BJP threatens defamation case against Rahul
BJP yesterday threatened to file criminal defamation case against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for terming external affairs
24 July 2015
Maldives takes U-turns on Nasheed
The Maldives yesterday said it would appeal against the controversial conviction of former president Mohamed Nasheed for terrorism
24 July 2015
80 people die in Delhi everyday from air pollution, Parliament is told
Air pollution in Delhi is killing around 80 people every day, according to an international study
24 July 2015
'Modi-Sharif talks eyewash'
The Congress on Tuesday dubbed as an “eyewash”, the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart
14 July 2015
India stampede kills 27
A stampede on the banks of a holy river yesterday killed at least 27 pilgrims in southern India in a tragic beginning to a religious festival
14 July 2015
Excerpts from the Lodha panel's verdict
The findings by the Honourable Supreme Court of the acts of betting have affected the image of the BCCI, IPL and the game of cricket and brought each one of them to disrepute.
14 July 2015
India to become most populous nation by 2050
India on Saturday recorded a population of 127,42,39,769, which is growing at a rate of 1.6 per cent a year, and could make the country the most populous in the world by 2050.
12 July 2015
Cocaine smugglers turn to South Asia for new routes, markets
Police who seized Asia's largest known shipment of liquid cocaine at a Bangladeshi port late last month say it was headed for India, the latest sign that drug cartels are increasingly plying their trade in South Asia.
12 July 2015
India, Turkmenistan back stronger energy ties
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a visit to Turkmenistan yesterday backed stronger energy ties with the gas-rich ex-Soviet state.
11 July 2015
Suu Kyi's party to run in polls
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday said her party would contest a national election in November, ending months of
11 July 2015
India, Pakistan to join security group led by Russia, China
President Vladimir Putin announced yesterday that India and Pakistan will join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group dominated by Russia and China and also including former Soviet republics in Central Asia.
10 July 2015
Islamic heritage of India has rejected terror
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday underlined the common Islamic heritage of India and Central Asia, which had always rejected forces of extremism.
8 July 2015
Myanmar to hold general election on November 8
Myanmar yesterday announced November 8 as the date for a historic general election set to be the first contested by Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition in a quarter of a century.
8 July 2015