South Asia

Chaat—derived from the Hindi word chaatna, which translates as “to lick” or “to taste”—is a popular category of street food found in stalls, carts, and food malls across South Asia. ...

China's entropic war in South Asian nations like Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Maldives is at an advanced stage, ...

News Analysis China’s main adversary in South Asia is India. Beijing is focused like a laser beam on ...

At least 227 people have died since flash floods ravaged swathes of South Asia over the weekend, officials ...

UNICEF Georgia did a video social experiment as the The State of the World’s Children, an annual report ...

A strong earthquake in northern Afghanistan was felt across much of South Asia on Monday, shaking buildings from ...

Dr. Rashmee Sharma knows better than most that life comes filled with the unexpected. In 1986 her future ...

Aptitude, ethics, and moral values to carry credit for the first time as a separate examination question paper ...

Better sanitation experience help retain children in Bangalore schools. Innovative methods for sanitation introduced by students and Reap ...

The British Prime Minister David Cameron is visiting India for three days with business and trade as the ...

Touted to be Asia’s biggest event of its kind, Aero India 2013 has taken off to a flying ...

Impoverished families often turn to vending and performing on India’s trains. Railway vendors now seek licensing to legitimize ...

An Indian nationalist party handed out tens of thousands of knives and a large quantity of chili powder ...

A Pakistani official who was investigating corruption charges related to the case against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf ...

Celebrations of the four-day harvest festival Pongal in India have changed dramatically with the urban lifestyle, and have ...

A dispute over an unpaid restaurant bill sparked a riot in a western Indian city between Hindus and ...

Children who runaway from home seek a better life in Delhi, but many are abducted by child labor ...

Zee News, an Indian television channel, decried the arrest of two of its senior staff members, characterizing the ...

Human Rights Watch accused Pakistan's high judges on Tuesday of trying to prevent the media from airing programs ...

The Pakistan Taliban on Thursday threatened to attack India to avenge the execution of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the ...

Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist left alive after the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, was executed Wednesday. Fear of ...

An internal United Nations report said that it failed to protect civilians during Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war.

The 15-year-old Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by Taliban last month for promoting education among girls ...

The most senior surviving Tamil Tiger leader will not be prosecuted by the Sri Lankan government, it announced ...

The desperate fight by locals to stop India’s newest nuclear power plant from going operational is reaching a ...

Nearly 300 people were killed in a fire that consumed a garment factory in Karachi, the largest city ...

The last two decades have seen big improvements in women’s rights in Pakistan: gains in political representation, integration ...