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India struggles to aid villagers after floods

India grapples with the task of feeding and housing close to a million villagers displaced by huge floods in the eastern state of Bihar.

Screams, silence as families collect bodies in Jaipur

A shock of thick black hair was all that peeped out from under a white sheet that covered a small body Wednesday at a morgue in Jaipur after serial bomb blasts killed about 80…

Hindu nationalists ‘win’ Gujarat poll

Controversial Hindu nationalist party leader Narendra Modi swept back to power in India’s religiously divided Gujarat state on Sunday in what was called a national victory over…

Tourist boom brings threat to Leh’s Tibetan architecture

Perched high above the Himalayan town of Leh, a warren of traditional mud-brick houses squats by the ruins of the royal palace and a monastery, appearing to grow out of the…

Villagers return home to ruins in flood-hit Asia

Villagers returned home to ruins as flood waters continued to recede on Monday but the toll from the annual monsoon flooding across South Asia rose to 2Â 300, officials said.…

Eco-tourists take to village life in India’s ‘Little Tibet’

Answering the call of nature over a pit of manure with no flush water in sight and learning how to churn butter may not be everyone’s idea of a great holiday. But in India’s…

Aid scarce for 18-million stranded in Asian floods

Relief teams in India, Bangladesh and Nepal on Thursday battled to reach about 18-million people stranded in massive flooding, with food, clean drinking water and medicines in…

Slums, shops make way for ‘world-class’ Delhi

Billboards dotting New Delhi are exhorting city residents to imagine a future made up of tall buildings and sky trains that will take the Indian capital from ”walled city to…

Joyous Nepalese celebrate ‘Victory Day’

Waving flags replaced clouds of tear gas as tens of thousands of people in Kathmandu celebrated ”Victory Day” over their king on streets where protesters had fought pitched…