At a 12-bed hospital deep in Nepal's Himalayan mountains, Indian Air Force helicopters bring in the casualties of a devastating earthquake that has killed more than 5,000: injured men, women and children plucked from hilltops and inaccessible valleys.

Humanitarian agencies said yesterday they were preparing a large-scale aid operation to earthquake-ravaged Nepal, with more relief planes arriving in the coming hours.

Rescue efforts in Nepal are intensifying after more than 1,800 people were killed in the country's worst earthquake in more than 80 years.

The intensity of tremors that have hit Nepal can be gauged by the fact that after the massive 7.8/9 magnitude first one, it has had 18

Bangladesh government is sending humanitarian assistance to Nepal in the wake of the devastation caused in Nepal by a major earthquake.

Protesters are being frequently beaten up while the media faces a growing number of death threats in the Maldives, Amnesty International said yesterday, after a fact-finding mission to the honeymoon islands.

At least 14 Indian pilgrims were killed and 25 others injured yesterday when a bus carrying them plunged some 100 metre down from the

A strong earthquake rattles Taiwan and small islands in the far south of Japan, official monitoring sites said, briefly prompting a warning for a 1-metre tsunami for the Okinawa island chain.

India's beleaguered opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday led thousands of angry farmers in a protest in the capital against Prime

A youth pushes his pregnant girlfriend off a cliff near the Nahargarh fort after crushing her face with a stone and then flees, assuming her to be dead.

An official said Surya Bahadur Thapa, who served as Nepal's prime minister five times, died on Wednesday while being treated for

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Pakistan next week, Islamabad said yesterday, with investment in the energy sector and Taliban

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday stayed executions handed down by the country's controversial new military courts, set up in the

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi returned home yesterday from his 56-day unexplained sabbatical which had raised questions

In a sign of warm personal friendship, US President Barack Obama has written a profile for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Time

After stoking controversy with its demand that Muslims be stripped of their voting rights, Shiv Sena yesterday advocated compulsory

Pakistan's former president and co-chairman of opposition PPP Asif Ali Zardari has met with his estranged son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in

Pakistan's Punjab government on Tuesday challenged the Lahore high court's decision to suspend the detention of LeT operations

Air safety authorities in Japan is investigating how a South Korean Asiana Airlines plane skidded off a runway on landing at Hiroshima airport.

China will create a "blacklist" of its tourists who behave badly overseas, state-media reported, after several embarrassing incidents involving Chinese travelling abroad.