Jebunissa Sheikh and Mohammed Salim Sheikh found their lost son Muzaffar six years after the 2002 Gujarat riots. He was no longer Muzaffar though but Vivek, a Hindu boy.

A railway employee sodomised a six-year-old deaf and mute boy in a train near the railway station here, the police said Thursday. The incident occurred at 1.00 p.m. in a local passenger train near Ghaziabad railway station.

While visiting New York in 2005, Nita Ambani was in the spa at the Mandarin Oriental New York, overlooking Central Park. The contemporary Asian interiors struck her just so, and prompted her to inquire about the designer. Nita Ambani was no ordinary...

In relations with Muslims, India plays double-standards, in relations with neighbors Pakistan and Bangladesh it says one thing but does totally the opposite; with regard to Kashmir it follows a clear ambiguity confusing the Kashmiris about the time and...

For years a fleshy physique was considered a must for an actress aspiring to break into Bollywood. Now its first “size-zero” female star has the sub-continent’s cinematic purists in a tizzy, amid fears that an imported Western fondness for slim...

The Maoists won a resounding victory in the 10 April elections to Nepal’s Constituent Assembly but questions remain about their use of violence. There have been several reports of party officials using violence against political opponents since the...

Police in India said they have arrested a man suspected of stealing more than 100 specimens from a sperm bank. Investigators said Anil Punjaba Mohite attempted to sell the samples, which were taken from a Cryobank laboratory in Aurangabad, to sperm...

Afghanistan’s Supreme Court has confirmed more than 100 death sentences, raising fears over the fate of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist on death row. Mr Kambaksh is in jail, pending an appeal, after he was sentenced to death for...

After decades of monarchy, Nepal is moving towards democracy and after the historic mandate, initial trends show that the Maoists are inching their way towards a win. They’ve used threat, extortion and killings in their crusade against the...

India said on Monday it was considering cutting import duties on a host of food and other products “to zero” to boost supply and tame surging inflation. The announcement came after India’s annual inflation rate accelerated to a...