The death toll from monsoon rains in Northern India has reached 570, according to the latest figures from the Indian Government.

Police ordered a Bangladesh garment building with deep cracks visible in the walls evacuated the day before its deadly collapse, but the factories flouted the order, officials say.

The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh has risen to 149 as rescuers worked to find more people trapped in the rubble, officials said.

A gang of men who raped a woman on a bus in New Delhi last month tried to run her over after the attack which left her fatally injured, reports said, citing a police account.

Authorities closed roads in the heart of India’s capital today in a bid to put an end to a week of demonstrations against the brutal gang-rape of a woman on a moving bus.

An Indian student who was savagely gang-raped has begun to recount her ordeal to police, as authorities reacted to violent protests by banning demonstrations in the capital.

Police in India’s capital have used water cannons and batons for a second day to break up protests by hundreds of people demonstrating against the gang rape and brutal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus.

Growing outrage over the gang rape of a woman on a bus in New Delhi has led to crowds of protesters demanding a crackdown on crimes against women.

There have been four small explosions in the western Indian city of Pune, the country’s home minister said tonight.

Three people were killed and five others injured when a bomb exploded in front of the headquarters of Nepal’s monopoly oil importer today.

India’s Parliament opened its winter session today and then quickly adjourned amid renewed protests by politicians angry about everything from corruption to soaring inflation.

Rescuers have finally reached some of the villages in India’s remote north-east cut off by a powerful earthquake as the death toll in the disaster climbed past 100.

Indian investigators were today examining forensic evidence and CCTV footage for clues about who orchestrated the three bombings that killed 17 people in Mumbai.

The triple bombing that killed 17 in the heart of India's financial capital has sparked anger over the government's inability to prevent terror strikes despite overhauling security forces after the 2008 Mumbai siege.

Indian officials called an emergency security meeting today to investigate three co-ordinated bombings that killed at least 21 people in the country’s financial capital in the worst terrorist attack since the 2008 Mumbai siege.

Shops and businesses were shut and public transport halted as a two-day strike demanding the creation of a new state in southern India paralyzed the region.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama warned that an obscure US Christian pastor’s plan to burn the Koran tomorrow to mark September 11 could provoke al-Qaida suicide bombings, as Asian countries urged Washington to prevent the act.

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SUSPECTED Maoist rebels derailed an overnight passenger train yesterday in eastern India, triggering a crash with an oncoming cargo train that killed at least 71 people and injured about 200 more, officials said.

Maoist rebels launched a series of devastating ambushes on Indian troops today killing at least 75 in the deadliest strike against the government in their 43-year insurgency.

India and Pakistan held high-level peace talks today for the first time since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in an attempt to reduce tension between them.

A bomb detonated in a crowded bakery popular with foreigners in western India killing nine people and wounding 57, officials said today, the first terrorist attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai massacre.

A BURMESE court convicted Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday of violating her house arrest by allowing an uninvited American to stay at her home. The head of the military-ruled country ordered the democracy leader to serve an 18-month sentence under house arrest.

A TERROR suspect arrested in New Delhi was a close aide of a prime suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks, India’s Home Minister said yesterday.

A terror suspect arrested in New Delhi was a close aide of a prime suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks, India’s Home Minister said today.

A suspected leader of an Islamic terror group responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings was arrested in Malaysia, more than a year after his escape from a Singapore jail.

A leading Indian politician was forced to duck a shoe flung at him during a press conference in New Delhi today in a virtual repeat of President George Bush’s Iraqi incident.

India’s home minister said Pakistan could become a failed state and raised doubts about who was in control of the nuclear-armed country, a news report said today.

MUTINOUS Bangladeshi border guards who seized control of their headquarters completed their surrender yesterday after tanks were sent into the capital as a show of force, the government said.

India produced evidence today about the Mumbai attacks which it said conclusively tied the killers to “elements” in Pakistan.

INDIA acknowledged the Mumbai attacks had uncovered security lapses but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday evidence showed the strike originated on a neighbour’s soil, a clear reference to Pakistan.

A terrorist carrying detailed sketches of targets in last week’s Mumbai massacre was captured earlier this year, it emerged today.

A senior Mumbai police official said the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was responsible for the terrorist attacks that left at least 174 people dead.

India’s top security official resigned today as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following terror attacks that killed 174 people.

India’s top security official offered his resignation today as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following the Mumbai attacks that left at least 174 people dead.

At least 29 people were killed and 88 wounded when a series of small explosions hit the western Indian city of Ahmadabad today, a top official said, a day after seven similar blasts struck another city in the south.

A previously unknown Islamic militant group claimed today to have carried out deadly bombings in the historic Indian city of Jaipur by planting bicycles packed with explosives on the city’s crowded streets, police said.

Investigators have arrested two more suspects in connection with the July 11 bombings on the Mumbai commuter rail network that claimed more than 200 lives, a television report said today.

Seven explosions rocked Mumbai’s commuter rail network during today’s evening rush hour, killing at least 105 people and injuring 300, officials said.

Nepal’s Maoist rebels, who have waged a decade-long war to seize control of the Himalayan nation, will join an interim government to be formed shortly, the rebels’ leader said today after meeting with top government officials.

Maoist rebels today agreed to peace talks with Nepal’s government, raising hopes for an end to a decade-old insurgency that has killed 13,000 people.

New clashes erupted in and around Nepal’s capital Kathmandu today between anti-monarchy protesters and security forces.

POLICE battled protesters in Kathmandu's narrow alleys yesterday, using batons and tear gas to beat back stone-throwing students on the second day of a strike called by adversaries of Nepal's King Gyanendra.

ROYALIST candidates who dominated local elections called by Nepal’s king duly cleaned up in the violence-plagued poll, according to official partial results.