When Krishna Prasad returned to his home in Indian district Ranchi from a wedding few days ago, he was in for a shock. A whopping Rs 55 crore monthly electricity bill had been delivered to his house.

Case is lodged against Nestle India over safety standards of its Maggi product, while actors Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Preity Zinta are dragged to court for promoting brand.

Thailand police arrested 51 people for their alleged involvement in trafficking of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Bangladesh insists that poverty is not necessarily the main driver pushing her people into the hands of traffickers.

Three people have been sued on charge of violating a schoolgirl in Parmhal area under Sadar upazila of the district.

Biplop Sikder of Monukheypara area under Taltali upazila in Barguna district has become a model farmer as he grows vegetables without using chemical fertilisers or insecticides.

Pakistan yesterday executed three Baluch separatists convicted of hijacking a plane in 1998, which they attempted to fly to India to disrupt Islamabad's first nuclear tests, officials said.

A remote Indian state has withdrawn a long-standing controversial law that handed security forces sweeping powers to fight insurgents,

Hospitals in India yesterday battled to treat victims of a blistering heatwave that has claimed nearly 1,500 lives in just over a week --

Myanmar scraps proposed 5 percent tax on mobile phone top-up cards after lawmakers voted against the levy, the state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said on Thursday.

India's former prime minister yesterday accused his successor Narendra Modi of suppressing dissent and undermining democratic

India, probably the world, will get its first transgender college principal when Manabi Bandopadhyay takes charge of Krishnagar Women's College in West Bengal on June 9, reports The Times of India.

At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Kalichanna village in Sadar upazila on Monday. Police and locals

Nepal banned children from traveling without parents or approved guardians yesterday in an unprecedented move to deter human traffickers who authorities fear are targeting vulnerable families after last month's devastating earthquake.

The kidnapped son of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani called his father on Sunday after two years in captivity and told him he was well.

At least 500 people are reported to have died in a heatwave sweeping India, with temperatures reaching 48C (118F) in some areas.

Life is hard in dry villages, like Denganmal, 150 km from Mumbai. Husbands are busy farming and tending to the animals, while the

A "massive" spurt in human trafficking instances in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Nepal has prompted security agencies to issue an alert along the open India-Nepal border.

One month after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal, the country's finance minister yesterday called for more direct aid funding.

More than 350 people are reported to have died in a heat wave sweeping India, with temperatures reaching 48C (118F) in some areas.