South Asia
Nepal quake reconstruction chief faces graft investigation
The head of Nepal\'s earthquake reconstruction authority is being investigated following complaints of corruption and other irregularities, an anti-graft official said Monday.Bus bomb blast kills 16 in northwestern Pakistan
At least 16 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a bomb blew up inside a bus in Peshawar, ...Nepal opens channels for reconstruction cash 11 months after quake
Nepal authorities opened banking channels Sunday to start distributing reconstruction cash to earthquake victims, almost 11 months after the tremor killed nearly ...Trafficked Nepali, Bangladeshi women trapped in Syria
Nepali villager Sunita Magar thought she was heading to a safe factory job in Kuwait, but only when she landed in Damascus ...Hopeless and broke, some Afghan migrants return from Europe
After risking death on the migrant trail and two months in "nightmarish" refugee centres in Germany, Mohammed Asif bought a one-way ticket ...Blast kills eight as Pakistani Taliban avenge executed Islamist
A suicide bomber blew himself up in northwest Pakistan Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring 21 in an attack the ...Hundreds of Tibetans join funeral procession of schoolboy
Hundreds of grieving Tibetans on Sunday joined the funeral procession for a 16-year-old schoolboy who died after setting himself on fire to ...Afghan Taliban refuse peace talks with government
The Taliban on Saturday refused to hold direct peace talks with the Afghan government, dealing a blow to international efforts to revive ...Nepal plane makes emergency landing after fatal crashes
A plane with nine passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing at Kathmandu airport Wednesday, an aviation official said, ...Indian man kills 14 members of his family with knife
A 35-year-old man killed 14 members of his family including six children with a butcher\'s knife before committing suicide in India, with ...




