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Officials in the Indian city of Bangalore investigate dozens of unexplained deaths at a government-run camp for beggars.

India is fighting to stop female foeticide.

The former chief minister of the north-east Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh is arrested on corruption charges.

Pakistan drop former captain Shoaib Malik for September's Twenty20 and one-day internationals against England.

Pakistan drop former captain Shoaib Malik for September's Twenty20 and one-day internationals against England.

Struggling against Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years

India refuses permission for the mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in the eastern state of Orissa amid concerns for local tribes.

Officials from Pakistan hold talks with the International Monetary Fund to discuss its $11bn loan package in the wake of the devastating floods.

Hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who arrived in Canada aboard a cargo ship 11 days ago are kept in jail.

The International Monetary Fund indicates it will release the next tranche of a multi-billion pound loan to Sri Lanka.

At least 24 people have died in a bombing at a mosque in the Pakistani tribal region of South Waziristan, officials say.

Flood relief in Pakistan reaches only a fraction of those in need

Pakistan's government launches an inquiry into the brutal mob killing of two teenagers in the eastern city of Sialkot.

Two French soldiers are killed and three injured during fighting in Afghanistan, the French president's office announces.

Several regions in north and west India are put on flood alert as heavy monsoon rains continue to fall.

The Indian cabinet further raises the allowances of members of parliament two days after raising their salaries more than three-fold.

A senior United Nations official urges the global community to step up its response to the floods that have struck Pakistan.

Indian carmaker Mahindra and Mahindra signs a preliminary deal to take over bankrupt South Korean rival Ssangyong Motor.

Pakistani artist Asma Shikoh paints Muslim women that wear the hijab but her pictures hardly conform to the stereotypes.

Indian ex-minister Shashi Tharoor marries girlfriend Sunanda Pushkar months after the couple were the focus of a cricket team ownership scandal.