Northeast India

Headlines

Flood Death Toll Worsens In India’s Assam

The death toll from worsening monsoon floods in India's Assam state has hit 18 with hundreds of thousands in makeshift...

Headlines

Wreckage of Missing Indian Chopper Found

The wreckage of an Indian Air Force chopper which went missing a day ago near the country's border with China has been...

Headlines

Bhutan Protests To China Over Border Road Dispute

Bhutan has protested to China over the construction of a road in disputed territory that has already heightened...

Headlines

China Lodges Protest Over Indian Border Incursion Claim

China has made a formal protest after accusing Indian border guards of crossing from Sikkim state into its Tibetan...

News

India Opens Its Longest Bridge

India has inaugurated a 9.15km (5.68-mile) bridge over the Lohit river, easily its longest ever, which connects the...

Headlines

Protesters In India Bury Dead After 632 Days

The bodies of eight people shot dead during an anti-government protest in northeast India have been buried after 632...

Headlines

Bus Crash Kills 44 In Northern India

A bus has swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a deep ravine in a Himalayan region of northern India, killing...

Headlines

Bus Crash Kills 44 In Northern India

A bus has swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a deep ravine in a Himalayan region of northern India, killing...

Headlines

Dalai Lama Visits Disputed Monastery, Angering China

The Dalai Lama will Saturday address devotees at the monastery near India's border with China where he took shelter on...

International

Dalai Lama Meets Indian Guard From 1959 Flight From Tibet

The Dalai Lama has come face to face with an Indian soldier who guarded him almost 60 years ago as he fled from Tibet...

Headlines

Nepal To Relocate Five Rare One-Horned Rhinos

Conservationists on Monday captured a rare one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal as part of an attempt to increase the number...

Headlines

Dalai Lama Reunited With Guard Who Welcomed Him To India

The Dalai Lama has had an emotional reunion with the Indian border guard who escorted him as he fled his native Tibet...

Headlines

Bodies Go Unburied At Election Time In India’s Manipur

The body of Pausuan Lian has lain in a hospital mortuary for more than 500 days since he was shot dead during a land...

Opinion

The Myanmar Monologue To the VAG

Ashanti: Come, let us talk of what is rarely spoken of: the War in Burma - now known as Myanmar - and those from the...

Opinion

The Myanmar Monologue To the VAG

Ashanti: Come, let us talk of what is rarely spoken of: the War in Burma - now known as Myanmar - and those from the...