For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet's struggle for greater freedoms under Chinese Communist Party rule, sustaining the cause from exile even as an increasingly powerful Beijing has become ever more (...)
Businesses are bracing for possible impact after neighbors India and Bangladesh recently imposed tit-for-tat trade restrictions after months of verbal sparring.
Last month, Bangladesh restricted land imports of cotton yarn from India to shield local (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cut short a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia and returned to New Delhi after an attack in the disputed Kashmir region killed at least 26 people, most of them tourists.
Security has been beefed up across Kashmir, (...)
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday expressed hope that Expo 2025 in Osaka will serve as a platform for global unity in a world increasingly fractured by war, trade disputes, and political division.
Speaking at the event's opening (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi women's national football team will take part in the AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers for the first time in its history, marking a major milestone in the Kingdom's ongoing efforts to develop women's football.
The 2026 edition of (...)
Supporters of Nepal's former king Gyanendra Shah demanded his abolished monarchy be reinstated and Hinduism brought back as the state religion.
An estimated 10,000 supporters who blocked the main entrance to Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International (...)
A shorter winter has literally left Nitin Goel out in the cold.
For 50 years, his family's clothing business in India's northwestern textile city of Ludhiana has made jackets, sweaters and sweatshirts. But with the early onset of summer this year, (...)
RIYADH—The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance has begun implementing the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Gift Program, including the Luxury Dates Gift Program, which was launched through the offices of the religious attachés at the (...)
MADINAH — A fourth batch of pilgrims hosted under the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' Guests Program for Hajj, Umrah and Visit has arrived in Madinah.
The current batch of guest pilgrims includes 250 men and women from 14 countries from South (...)
"I just wanted to own a house and pay off my debts — that's why I decided to sell my kidney," says Zeya, a farm worker in Myanmar.
Prices had soared after a military coup in 2021 triggered civil war. He could barely feed his young family and was (...)
A 22-member Bangladeshi delegation of political leaders, civil society activists, academics and journalists has begun a 10-day visit to China.
They will be having talks with Chinese government officials and senior members of the ruling Communist (...)
Rescuers have ended a 44-day search operation after they found the bodies of five men who were trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India's north-eastern state of Assam.
DNA tests will be conducted to identify the men as the bodies are in a (...)
Nepal has been celebrated globally for tripling its tiger population in a decade — but Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli thinks the country may have been too successful.
"In such a small country, we have more than 350 tigers... We can't have so many (...)
A survivor of a coal mine disaster in India has shared a harrowing account of the moments after the tunnel was suddenly engulfed by water.
Ravi Rai was working in the mine in the northeastern state of Assam on Monday morning when water entered the (...)
A leading Slovak mountain climber has died while descending a 7,234m (23,730ft) peak in Nepal, after completing the rare feat of scaling the mountain's perilous eastern face.
Ondrej Huserka fell into a crevasse on Thursday, after he and his climbing (...)
Six migrants have died after soldiers in Mexico opened fire on a vehicle carrying a group of 33 people who were traveling in the south of the country.
The Mexican defense ministry said another 10 migrants were injured in the incident on Tuesday (...)
Major floods and landslides in Nepal have killed at least 148 people and injured more than 100 across the Himalayan nation, police have reported.
They say more than 50 people were still missing on Sunday, after two days of intense rainfall which (...)
Continuous rainfall has caused severe flooding in Nepal's capital, killing at least 32 people, with another 12 reported missing, police said on Saturday.
The torrential rains, which began Friday night, are expected to continue throughout the (...)
More than 70,000 people fighting in Russia's military have now died in Ukraine, according to data analyzed by the BBC.
And for the first time, volunteers — civilians who joined the armed forces after the start of the war — now make up the highest (...)
The pilot who survived a deadly plane crash in Nepal was saved after his cockpit was sheared off by a freight container seconds before the rest of the aircraft crashed in flames.
Captain Manish Ratna Shakya, the sole survivor of the disaster that (...)
At least 18 people were killed after a plane crashed and caught fire while it was taking off from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu on Wednesday.
The pilot, who is currently receiving treatment in hospital, is the only survivor of the fatal (...)
Rescuers are searching for more than 60 missing people in Nepal after a massive landslide swept two buses into a river.
Some spoke of their terrifying ordeal, with one saying he was "thrown out of the window of the bus into the river".
Only three (...)
Deadly flash flooding due to sudden heavy rains has inundated India's capital, replacing one of the worst heat waves in Delhi's history that sent temperatures soaring well above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).
An observatory in New (...)
At least 10 people have died in flooding and landslides across Himalayan regions of India and Nepal following heavy rainfall on Thursday, according to local officials. The severe downpours have also left 2,400 tourists stranded in the northeastern (...)
Dozens of Indians have reportedly been duped by agents into fighting for Russian forces inside Ukraine
India says two of its nationals who had been recruited by the Russian army have been killed in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The Indian foreign (...)
