A herd of elephants have entered a village in south-west Nepal, killing one person and wounding two others.

Around 160 people are feared dead after an Air India plane crash at an airport in southern India, a minister has said.

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.2 hit India’s southern Nicobar Islands today.

A man has beheaded his 20-year-old sleeping son in southern India in what his family described as a sacrifice to Hindu gods.