More than 10 days after a wall of ice, rock and mud tore through a Himalayan valley in Nepal, rescuers continue to find survivors. Chandika Shrestha, a 64-year-old woman,...

It's a tension that has played out in other states including Karnataka, where language activists fear their local language - Kannada - is being marginalised as many migrants believe...

A tunnelling expert involved in the rescue operation at a blocked Nepalese hydropower tunnel has described to the BBC how they managed to reach survivors.Arnold Dix has been advising...

Eleven people have been sentenced to death by a court in Vietnam in one of the country's largest drug trafficking cases, state media report.They are among 227 people accused...

The full impact of the flood in Tibet is unclear. China has released information through state media outlets showing the devastation around the border, but has given few details...

"I still have a 50% hope that he is alive because there is an oxygen system inside," Sita Pandey, whose husband was working in the plant when the floods...

The number of people missing in Nepal has risen to more than 4,200, the national disaster agency said on Monday.The BBC has travelled to the district of Rasuwa, one...

A 97-year-old woman pulled from flood debris in Nepal is recovering in hospital, according to her doctors. Guna Maya Bohara's great-nephew, Dipak Bohara, has told BBC Nepali she looked...

Just hours after the disaster struck, the Communist Party machine tried to rally its grassroots to stem any signs of discontent of its handling of the landslide.A notice came...

Hundreds have died or are missing in Wednesday's flooding and landslides on the border of Nepal and Tibet. Source link

At Kathmandu's TU Teaching Hospital, families of those missing in the floods wait anxiously for updates.Holding up her phone, Ram Khumari Shrestha says: "This is my husband. He was...

An Indian jewellery brand has removed their new advertisement for the upcoming festival of Rakshabandhan, also known as Rakhi, after backlash over the outfit worn by the female lead.The...