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The head of India's opposition Hindu nationalist party, Lal Krishna Advani, will stay on as party chief despite the internal row he triggered by praising the founder of Islamic Pakistan, reports said...

Three men including a top Sikh separatist were arrested in connection with the bombings last month of two cinema halls in the Indian capital that killed one person and wounded 49, police said...

Lal Krishna Advani, who resigned as chief of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has long been regarded as a hardliner in India's ever-seething political cauldron...

India's opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani has offered to resign as chief of his Hindu nationalist party after drawing fire for praising Pakistan's founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah, reports said...

Uniting the fundamental forces in China, a symbol of evil and a protector in the West and the anger of the earth in Japan, the many faces of the dragon are on show at a medieval castle in north-eastern France...

The doomsday cult notorious for a fatal gas attack on the Tokyo subway 10 years ago is on a drive to double its membership and earn more money through new businesses such as selling used cars, an expert said...

Police in New Delhi arrested two men, including an suspected Sikh militant, in connection with two cinema bombings here 10 days ago that killed one person and wounded 49 others, police commissioner K.K. Paul said...

Pakistani police will not press a 57-year-old case against visiting Indian opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani over an alleged plot to kill the country's founding father, officials said...

Veteran Indian politician and opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani met Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in the latest sign of a thaw between the nuclear neighbours, officials said...

The ghostly wreckage of Air India flight 182 that was pulled from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland to use as evidence in a criminal trial is sitting in limbo now that the case is over...

The ghostly wreckage of Air-India flight 182 that was pulled from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland to use as evidence in a criminal trial is sitting in limbo now that the case is over...

An influential Kashmiri separatist said his group has accepted an invitation to visit Pakistan next week in a bid to secure Kashmiris a place in talks for resolution of the dispute over the Himalayan territory...

Security forces are on high alert in the Indian capital after bomb attacks on two cinemas showing a film offensive to Sikh elders killed one person and injured 49...

One person was injured in a blast in the Indian capital Monday, but the incident was not linked to bomb attacks on two cinemas showing a film offensive to Sikh elders, police said...

A third explosion wounded at least one person in the Indian capital, just hours after bomb attacks on two cinemas showing a controversial Sikh film killed one person and injured 49, police said...

Pakistan and India have agreed to start a new bus service between two border cities to bolster their 15-month-old peace process, officials said...

Pakistani and Indian officials held talks on starting a new cross-border bus service while separate groups wrapped up discussions on a water row and met to boost maritime links...

The train travels west into the outskirts of London, and arrives at the heart of south Asian Britain: English and Punjabi signs, curry restaurants, Muslim butchers, a Hindu temple, a gold-domed Sikh gurdwara and churches...

India cremated with full military honours an army general hailed as the architect of the 1971 war with Pakistan that led to the birth of Bangladesh as an independent nation...

The Indian general known as the architect of the 1971 war with Pakistan that led to the birth of Bangladesh as an independent nation died here...