Anni Dewani, 28, and her husband of two weeks Shrien Dewani, 30, had been to a popular nightspot in one of the city’s townships and were thought to be returning home at around 11pm on Saturday night when two men armed with handguns forced the driver...

Four high-ranking leaders of Cambodia’s disgraced Khmer Rouge government of the 1970s were on Thursday indicted for “crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide”. The four — Khieu Samphan (79), Nuon Chea (84), Ieng Sary (85) and Ieng...

Indian security forces said they have drawn up a new plan to tackle deadly unrest in Kashmir amid criticism of the government on Thursday over its handling of the crisis. The army, police and paramilitary forces said Wednesday they had formulated a...

Passengers at Leh airport — one of the world’s highest airfields at 10,682-feet above sea level — will soon be basking in the warmth of solar airconditioning. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is going to install solar panels on the roof of...

The sustained effort by aggressive khap panchayats and their influential political backers to force leading political parties to have a rethink on same gotra marriages is patently illegal. Sixty-five years ago, in 1945, the issue was settled by the...

A couple in Indonesia have been arrested for selling monkey meat in their meatball soup. The animal in question was a rare Javan langur, also known as a silver-leaf monkey, which can be found in Baluran National Park in East Java, Indonesia, according...

Pakistan may slip over nuclear weapons to the Taliban for use against India in the event of escalated tension or war between the two neighbours, a non-proliferation U.S. commission has said. “If something broke out in Kashmir that reignited the...

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today flayed tennis star Sania Mirza for her decision to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, saying “had Sania’s heart been Indian, it wouldn’t have beaten for a Pakistani.” “Henceforth,...

The financial results for the December 2009 quarter, over the corresponding period in the previous fiscal, was expected to be one of the best in years in terms of growth rate. A look at the final picture for the country’s top 30 firms comprising the...

Every day, Irfan Ansari sorts through dozens of résumés from young Kashmiris seeking jobs at his call center, seen by many here as a haven from the turmoil caused by militant Islamist forces seeking to uproot the government of Indian-administered...