Kathmandu, Sept. 4: Nepal’s opposition Maoist party has been dragged into a snowballing scandal with a leaked audio tape indicating the former guerrillas sought 500 million Nepali rupees (NRS) from Ch

A mid-air collision between two light aircraft taking part in a competition in Britain killed two people.

One of the planes crashed into a dense woodland near Ryde town in the Isle of Wight, killing

Low-cost lavatory technique, developed by an Indian NGO, will be adopted by the US Army to build public toilets in Afghanistan, a senior US military official said.

The US troops will build at least 4

A 40-year-old Briton has been jailed for writing a blog on the imaginary rape and murder of an author who he has been harassing for two years.

Greg Downing wrote in an online novel about an imagined

Dogged by allegations of trying to buy MPs and fighting a leaked tape that purportedly caught a senior aide seeking NRS 500 million from a "friend" in China, Maoist chief, Mr Pushpa Kamal Dahal Pracha

At least 11 schoolchildren received burn injuries when their van caught fire in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district on Saturday, officials said.

All the students, who are in the age group of 8-13 years

A monster potato in Britain, weighing nearly 3.75 kg, has smashed the world record.

Peter Glazebrook, who is an amateur gardener, set the new record by growing the Kondor variety.

The huge potato w

Hundreds of people from the village of abducted policeman Abhay Kumar Yadav on Saturday blocked a national highway to protest the Bihar government's failure to rescue the sub-inspector who is among th

At least 87 kindergarten children fell ill after having food in a province in northwest China, officials said on Saturday.

The illness was related to yogurt served at the Lantai Kindergarten in Lanzh

A school teacher, who was a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), was on Saturday shot dead by Maoists in West Bengal's West Midnapore distruct, police said.

Dibakur Mahato, a CPI-M