Three militants belonging to the Karbi People's Liberation Tiger were killed in a joint team by the police and paramilitary forces in an encounter at Dolamara Torapung area of Karbi Anglong district in Assam on Wednesday.
Hundreds of opposition-backed protesters demanding the resignation of Nepal's Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on Monday attacked his motorcade and clashed with riot police at the airport in Khatmandu.
After paying a visit to soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni arrived in Kathmandu on a two-day visit to interact with Nepalese cricketers and meet fans on Saturday.
Nepal's Madhesi Peoples Rights Forum-Democratic, the second largest partner in the ruling Maoist-led coalition, today suffered a jolt as 10 of its top leaders quit from the party to form a new group.
Nepal plunged into a major political crisis, hours after Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai disbanded parliament with five political parties challenging the move to hold fresh elections, as the president reviewed the legality of the step.
"The Prime Minister's unilateral move to conduct fresh election by allowing to dissolve the most representative Constituent Assembly was aimed at capturing power and this has created frustration in the minds of the general public," said a joint statement issued by five parties.
A private plane with 19 people on board crashed in mountain airstrip in northern Nepal, killing 14 people, including four Indians on Monday, officials said.
Stepping up their anti-insurgency operation, Nepalese security forces have gunned down 20 Maoists after a rebel attack left one soldier dead and 5 injured in the southwest Nawalparasi district.
Pro-Maoist students close to the hardliner faction led by Mohan Vaidya 'Kiran' have staged a demonstration here against alleged Indian interference in the formation of a national government in Nepal.
All the ministers in Nepal's coalition government resigned en-mass on Thursday night after major political parties in the country reached a deal to form a new national unity government within two days in a bid to end the current political deadlock.
Hours after police evacuated demonstrators from Raisina Hill and Sonia Gandhi's 10 Janpath residence, high drama was witnessed at India Gate on Sunday when agitators resisted police attempts to detain them for defying prohibitory orders to protest against the gang-rape of a young girl.
Measuring just 59.93 cm, Junrey Balawing, a Filipino who turned 18 on Sunday, was declared the world's shortest man, taking over the title from a tiny Nepali.
Three-and-a-half years since Bihar was ravaged by floods after a breach in the eastern embankment of the Kosi river, a one-man commission set up to probe the cause of it finally began public hearing in Patna, officials said on Thursday.
Indian-Americans, whose voters' population has doubled in the last decade, have emerged as a powerful group in the United States that the ruling Democrats and opposition Republicans cannot ignore in the presidential election year.
In the sprawling rural Bihar, elected head of the village panchayats, known as 'mukhiyas' are living in fear in view of increasing threat to their lives.
Roshni Rai, who gathered runners from her native Darjeeling to run the 2012 Mumbai Marathon, won't take anything lying down. Certainly not, if her nationality is in question.
Opposition leaders have questioned the alleged misuse of public funds in organising the second global meet on Bihar. They have claimed that the event is merely an "image building" exercise for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The much-hyped meet -- which began on Friday and involves nearly 1,000 participants including NRIs -- aims to discuss ways to accelerate the momentum of high growth and development strategies for Bihar.
Electioneering for the third and the final phase of polling in Assam to be held on April 24 in six constituencies - Gauhati, Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Mangaldoi and Nowgong -- came to an end on Tuesday afternoon with the election department expecting a high turn out on the basis of overwhelming response of voters in the last two phases of polling in the state.
India aims to gently encourage moderate and democratic forces in Nepal and Maldives towards building a less fractured polity, writes Shubha Singh
Do Modi's foreign visits actually serve India or they nothing more than expensive tools for domestic positioning and image-building, asks Shehzad Poonawalla.
A Bihar court on Friday acquitted 11 Nepali Maoist leaders after hearing the state government's petition for the withdrawal of criminal cases against them. Two days after the state government filed a petition in the Patna civil court for the withdrawal of cases, Additional District Judge Bashishtha Narain Singh ordered the acquittal of the Nepal Maoist leaders after holding a hearing on the petition.
The government has decided to ban Indian women from being surrogate mothers to foreigners to stop 'commercial surrogacy'. How will this decision affect surrogacy in India?
A bohemian Nepali, a south Indian priest and a mechanical engineer are bound by their mutual love for tattooing as an art form. These young men however are no longer on the margins as tattooing is being accepted in the mainstream more than ever.
The actress was in the country to shoot a documentary on human trafficking.
Naomi Mihara and Ritu Panchal report from Nepal to provide a more humane picture about the conditions on the ground and how the local populace is trying to cope with it.
Capt Nair's detractors will give you good reasons why his premium gamble will not work -- his lowest tariff of Rs 20,000 a night is above rivals like The Oberoi (Rs 18,500) and ITC Maurya (Rs 18,000), though it is lower than the Aman (Rs 27,000).
Gangster Chhota Rajan, arrested in Bali on Monday and who is likely to be extradited to India, was not one to forgive or forget easily. Mumbai's foremost crime writer S Hussain Zaidi recalls the time when Rajan was almost killed in an attack by his rival Chhota Shakeel, and how Rajan extracted revenge across continents.
Despite the devastation that has struck this tiny mountain nation, Dr Vani Kori - who volunteered her service in Nepal for 10 days - believes it will soon rebuild itself.
Ramon Magsaysay winner Anshu Gupta, whose non-governmental organisation Goonj has been leading the relief efforts in Nepal which was ravaged by a devastating quake in April this year, speaks to Ankita Mishra.
On his first official visit after becoming the prime minister of Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai on Saturday said all "misunderstandings" have been "dispelled" and a "new chapter" has been opened up in Indo-Nepal ties. The Nepalese prime minister also assured New Delhi of developing a mechanism to check the Fake Currency Notes circulation on Indo-Nepal border.
Charles Sobhraj's 22-year-old wife talks about her participation in Bigg Boss 5 and her husband
'In today's India very few would, of course, stand Basavanna's test. This led Professor Kalburgi to not only take on casteist and conservative forces in general, but also some powerful conservatives among Lingayats.' 'Conservatives found him polarising and some researchers disagreed with his speculations while admiring his scholarship, but he posited that culture studies and historians have to perforce join the dots, speculate, interpret, interpolate, extrapolate and take leaps to make progress even if some of them later turn out to be wrong.' Shivanand Kanavi salutes Professor M M Kalburgi, the scholar who was assassinated in Dharwad on Sunday, August 30.
A Bihar court issued fresh non-bailable warrants of arrest against 11 Nepali Maoist leaders who include 2 politburo members and six lawmakers on Thursday for their alleged involvement in anti-India activities.
The veteran singer puts in a good acting debut.
Maoist leader Dr Baburam Bhattarai was on Sunday elected Nepal's new prime minister defeating his Nepali Congress rival R C Poudyal, with the Terai-based Madhesi alliance extending crucial support to the former rebel leader.
Holding that there is prima-facie evidence, a local court in Ghaziabad on Thursday ordered framing of charges of murder and destruction of evidence against dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, whose daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj were found murdered at their residence four years ago.
'In the first meeting of this new year, we took a joint new year resolution that we will complete it this year. At the time things were not very clear, but the mood was clear that yes, we must resolve it.' 'Yes, details have to come out, but there are some sensitivities, there are some stake-holders not yet on board, especially other Naga undergrounds etc, we would like them to come on board... So at a proper time it has to be revealed to the country, and to the legislature. Perhaps, we may have to wait for some more time.' 'With better understanding of the Indian system, many of them have learnt, realised, appreciated that Naga nationalist aspirations can be accommodated in the Indian system. The Indian system is pretty comprehensive and flexible.' 'A Naga has as much stake, claim over India as any other Indian. There is no distinction. This, Nagas have realised, that yes, Naga nationalist aspirations and Indian nationalism are not mutually exclusive.' Ravindra Narayan Ravi, the Government of India's Special Interlocutor for the Naga talks, explains how the Naga Peace Accord was reached in an exclusive interview to Saisuresh Sivaswamy/Rediff.com
Fugitive gangster and drug smuggler Santosh Shetty has been arrested in Bangkok by the Thailand police. Mumbai crime branch officials took him into custody on Thursday.
'If the State does want to come after you, in India, it can do pretty much anything. And often it isn't as though the orders are coming from the President or prime minister, no, the systems have been built in a way -- or we have allowed them to be built in a way -- that almost encourages crushing of liberties.'
Amid mounting pressure from the main opposition Nepali Congress and detractors within the ruling Communist party, Nepal's embattled Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal has said he would quit by next week if there was no "concrete" progress in the 2006 peace process.
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