South Asia News

Twin suicide bomb attacks on the Pakistani city of Lahore kill 45 people, before other, smaller blasts cause confusion.

The third season of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament is under way amid heavy security in Mumbai.

At least six people are killed in a suicide car bombing at a security checkpoint in north-west Pakistan, police say.

Russia's state-owned nuclear company says the country will build at least 12 nuclear reactors in India.

Security is tight in the Pakistani city of Karachi as funerals are held for a Sunni Muslim cleric and four others killed on Thursday.

The father of a five-year-old boy kidnapped in Pakistan is helping officers in the search for his son, police have said.

Pakistan's navy successfully test-fires missiles and torpedoes from ships, submarines and aircraft in the Arabian sea, officials say.

India suspends Fashion TV for 10 days for showing topless models during a show last year.

The chief minister of India's Gujarat state, Narendra Modi, is summoned to appear before an inquiry into riots in 2002.

A bamboo dance performed by tribals in India's northeast is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the "largest and longest bamboo dance".