South Asia

A man has confessed to murdering 33 people in India’s Madhya Pradesh State.

The former prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam have been issued parole to attend the funeral of wife and mother Kulsoom Nawaz.

At least 53 people have died after a bus came off the road in India.

Police in India say they have arrested a man after he arrived at a police station carrying his wife’s severed head in a bag.

Two men convicted of the 2007 twin Hyderabad blasts in India have been sentenced to death.

Protesters have taken to the streets in several Indian cities over spiralling fuel costs and the falling value of the rupee.

India’s Supreme Court has told state judiciaries that they must implement a judgment to prevent mob lynching incidents by the end of the week.

A man has been arrested in India in connection with the death of his sister’s lover.

Two women accused of stealing from a shop in Lahore were brutally beaten by the store’s owners.

Members of the LGBT community in India are celebrating a landmark decision by the Supreme Court to decriminalise gay sex.

Police in India are searching for a lunchbox that belonged to a former royal family.

Six people have been arrested in connection with the gang rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Indian-administered Kashmir.

A section of a bridge collapsed in India’s eastern city of Kolkata.

An Indian court has convicted two men in the case of twin blasts in the city of Hyderabad in 2007.

Authorities in India have confirmed at least nine people have died from leptospirosis – also known as ‘rat fever’ – in Kerala.

Police in India have allayed fears that body bags found on a vacant plot of land contained the remains of children.

The US military is to stop sending $300 million worth of aid to Pakistan.