It is 42C in the shade, but that doesn’t deter 10-year-old Anjali Patole from queuing up every day near a water tank on a baking pavement in the city of…

The world’s failure to prepare for natural disasters will have “inconceivably bad” consequences as climate change fuels a huge increase in catastrophic droughts and floods and the humanitarian crises that…

India’s top judge has made an emotional plea to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to recruit more judges to handle an “avalanche” of backlogged cases. Chief Justice TS Thakur appeared close…

Mamta Rawat, a 24-year-old woman, helped rescue hundreds of people from the 2013 floods in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, where more than 5,000 people are presumed to have…

Hackers managed to steal $80m (£56m) from Bangladesh’s central bank because it skimped on network hardware and security software, reports Reuters. The bank had no firewall and used second-hand routers…

A recent diplomatic row between Taiwan and China has cast light on a massive international telecoms fraud problem. It is said to involve thousands of scammers, some of them pretending…

Japanese officials have raided an office of Mitsubishi Motors following the revelation that the carmaker had falsified its fuel economy data. The officials searched its plant in the central Japanese…

It’s often said that falling in love can be dangerous. But as a young man growing up in the town of Rampur in northern India, Mohammad Javed never imagined his…

The Indian government has told the Supreme Court that 330 million people are affected by drought in the country. It said that nearly 256 districts across India, home to nearly…

Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in New York while Hillary Clinton has triumphed in the Democratic race. With the majority of votes counted, Mr Trump looks set…