Himalayan

Top Kashmiri leader asks Pakistan to withdraw from peace pacts with India

Syed Ali Shah Geelani urges Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to respond to India's "annexation" of disputed Kashmir by dissolving Tashkent, Shimla and Lahore agreements, and "re-designation" of de facto border to "ceasefire line."

Bus falls into river in Nepal, killing 17 and injuring 50

"So far, 17 people have been confirmed dead and another 50 are injured," district official Goma Devi Chemjong said adding that "the number of missing is unknown as the bus had no record of the total number of passengers."

India blocks SMS services in restive Kashmir, arrests women activists

Exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani security forces over the Line of Control, claims the lives of a man and his two pre-teen children in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and a 24-year-old woman in India-administered Kashmir.

Independent Kashmir: The thought that unnerves both India and Pakistan

Although Islamabad has always supported Kashmir's UN-sanctioned Right to Self Determination, it has also been wary of Kashmiri nationalism that envisions a state free from both India and Pakistan.

India jailed thousands in Kashmir crackdown – official data

Authorities in India-administered Kashmir arrested nearly 4,000 people since scrapping the region's limited autonomy last month, government data accessed by Reuters shows.

India's clampdown and communication blackout destroys Kashmir economy

Both small and large businesses in Jammu and Kashmir are facing near irreversible losses since the government of India changed the disputed region's autonomy, accompanied with a clampdown.

Pakistan asks UN Security Council to meet over India moves in Kashmir

The move by India blocks the right of the state of Jammu and Kashmir to frame its own laws and allows non-residents to buy property there.

India's Hindu nationalist regime near-decimates its secular opposition

The ruling BJP has been accused of toppling elected state governments led by the opposition parties either by buying or intimidating the lawmakers in order to pass controversial bills in the absence of a strong opposition in the parliament.

Floods, landslides leave scores dead across Nepal, India

Triggered by heavy rainfall, the floods and landslides have left 43 people dead with 24 missing in Nepal. More than 1,100 people have been rescued from flooded areas.

At least 35 dead as bus crashes in Kashmir

The bus plunged off the Himalayan mountain road as its driver negotiated a curve and rolled down into a 150-metre-deep gorge along a rocky stream in the southern Kishtwar area of India-administered Kashmir.

India begins 'high-risk' retrieval of dead climbers

Authorities says mission to recover climbers' bodies likely to take 10 days.

Pakistan races to protect mountain villages from runaway glaciers

Up close, the surging wall of ice almost 656 ft (200 metres) high above Hassanabad village in Hunza district cracked and groaned in the May sun as ice and debris fell off in big chunks.