INDIA

Deepa Mehta's critically acclaimed and controversial film Fire, the first of her Elements Trilogy which opened in 1996 to widespread protests, opened the closet for gay issues in the country, said actress Shabana Azmi.

New satellite images and data have proved that some glaciers on Asia’s Karakoram mountain range, a part of the Himalayas, have gained ice mass.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to ease rates when it announces the annual credit policy on Tuesday, in order to lift constraints on lending and in a response to the continued shortage of liquidity in the banking sector faced with a slow moving economy.

Taliban fighters launched a coordinated wave of assaults across Afghanistan Sunday, targeting the embassy district of Kabul and parliament, as well as trying to strike an airbase used by American troops, officials said.

Canadian porn star Sunny Leone, who shot to fame in India with the Big Boss 5 reality show, is now an Indian resident.

The recent arrest of a university professor in the Indian state of West Bengal for forwarding a political cartoon targeting the state's Chief Minister has shocked the public as well as the political parties across the spectrum.

Gold prices slipped below $1,670 an ounce on Friday, pausing in their biggest one-week rally since late February as the dollar firmed against key currencies, with the euro falling out of favour due to worries over Spain's financial health.

Four men are on trial for alleged plans to attack a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad

China has previously warned India away from exploration projects in the South China Sea.

These countries have much bigger fish to fry than some wayward fishermen.

Struggling, unprofitable state-owned Air India Ltd. is set to receive 300 billion rupees ($5.8 billion) in bailout money from the country's government as it struggles with tough competition and high fuel cost.

Nissan Motor Co. will invest as much as 40 billion yen, $494 million, to build a fourth Chinese factory through its joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Nikkei reported Friday.

With the election of Suu Kyi into Myanmar's parliament, some Rohingya are optimistically cautious.

Indian software services firm Infosys Technologies Ltd Friday reported 27.4 percent quarterly rise in profit, but presented disappointing guidance for future sales subsequent to the uncertainties in the global economy and the volatile nature of the currency.

India replaced China as the top purchaser of Iranian oil in the first quarter of 2012, and has been trading wheat and grains for fuel.

On my first visit back to my neighbourhood street after a long stint of living abroad, I felt l was plunging headfirst into the Great Indian melting pot.

India and China are headed for an absolute catastrophe of death and disease because of likely massive jump in asbestos-related diseases in the coming decades, says a report written by Pulitzer winning journalist Gary Cohn.

The US reclaimed the top position as the biggest investor in clean energy last year, with clean energy finance and investment witnessing a growth $48 billion, a 42 percent increase over 2010, according to a global rank list published in a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

The delay in resolving the crisis situation of Italian nationals being detained and held hostages on Indian soil may have something to do with India's ruling coalition United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's Italian roots.

Paola Bosusco, one of the two Italian hostages who was held hostage by Maoists in India's Odisha state, was released late Wednesday night.

It seems that actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is not in a hurry to return to silver screen and mystery still surrounds her future career moves. However, according to some recent reports, the actress is slowly taking up tiny projects post delivery.