South Asia

A court in Delhi has issued a new execution date for four men found guilty of a brutal gang rape and murder of a university student in 2012.

A 12-year-old girl has been rescued after being buried under snow for 18 hours following an avalanche that hit her home in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

An Indian man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after he confessed to killing his girlfriend on live TV.

The execution of four convicts who raped and murdered a young student in Delhi in 2012 is no longer expected to go ahead as planned on January 22.

Police in Uttar Pradesh are investigating allegations that a newborn died after being mauled by a stray dog at a hospital.

India’s supreme court has rejected the appeals of two of the four people sentenced to death over the 2012 rape and murder of a student in Delhi.

At least 124 people have been killed and several others are missing after avalanches and landslides hit Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

A court in Pakistan has overturned the death sentence handed down to former president Pervez Musharraf by declaring the legal process unconstitutional.

India's Supreme Court has given the government a week to review its suspension of internet services in Indian-administered Kashmir.

The Pakistani passport has been ranked at 104th position - the fourth worst passport - for international travel, as reported by Henley Passport Index.

Thousands of camels in South Australia will be shot dead from helicopters as a result of extreme heat and drought.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested a man suspected of raping a university student in the capital Dhaka.

An Indian court has set an execution date for four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student on a bus in the capital of Delhi

Two people were killed and another 14 injured on Tuesday following an explosion in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

50 mourners have died following a stampede at the funeral of the Iranian military general Qassem Soleimani in his hometown of Kerman.

Police in Pakistan have arrested a man who allegedly sold his minor daughter for Rs 500 to another man who then tried to rape her.

Students across India have begun protesting following an attack on a Delhi university by masked men wielding sticks.

Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq.

India has announced plans for a third lunar mission, months after its last one crash landed on the Moon's surface.

India recorded the highest number of babies born globally on New Year’s Day, according to data released by the UNICEF

The number of rape victims in Bangladesh has doubled in 2019, with more than 1,400 women reporting having been raped throughout the past year.

India's capital Delhi has recorded its coldest day in more than a century amid a severe cold wave across the northern part of the country.

A fire has broken out inside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residential-office complex in New Delhi.

Residents and workers in the Old Haji Camp Timber Market in Karachi have been evacuated following the collapse of a six-storey building on Monday afternoon.