Kiwi hikers trekking down from Mount Everest base camp have described their panic when the devastating quake - which has killed at least 1800 people - hit.

At least 718 feared dead as Nepalese earthquake leads to utter destruction. "Sherpas believe that a lot of people may have been buried in their tents."

Surgeons have found and removed an embryonic twin, complete with hair, bone and teeth, from deep in the brain of a PhD computer science student.

A Canterbury postgraduate student is cycling through Australia, Asia and Europe on his way to a UN climate congress.

These children have been reunited with their mother after being abandoned by their father at India’s busiest railway station.

Labour's ethnic communities spokesman Phil Goff is calling for the Government to clarify where and when Sikhs can wear a kirpan.

Belinda Merhab travels to an ashram in Northern India to find herself, but discovers something else entirely.

The banner read ‘Ireland: you’re potatoes in our curry tonight’ and that summed up India’s open-wicket practice to reinforce their status as World Cup contenders.

Pakistan has test-fired a ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead to every part of India. Yesterday's test was another escalation in Islamabad's effort to keep pace with its neighbouring rival's formidable military advancements.

New Delhi police are are trying to block the airing of a documentary that includes remarks by one of the men involved in a fatal gang-rape in 2012.

Taking your king or queen to Mumbai? Why not stay in style at this regal establishment, writes Chris Leadbeater.

Liz Light walks the Great Rann of Kutch.

A former Hawkes Bay man who admitted bashing his wife to death has left NZ, travelling on an Indian passport he got while under NZ government care.

Misbah believes the team who can best forget the troubled history between the nations might prevail in what is expected to be the most-watched cricket game ever.

I got a commission from a book company to get Red Square and the Kremlin by drone and they said 'if you get the photo Amos, we'd be delighted but if you get caught you're on your own'.

Promised to each other as children, India's PM left his wife shortly after their arranged marriage and kept it a secret for decades. But she still waits to be by his side.

A fighting half-century from Shaun Marsh has virtually ensured that Australia will do no worse than draw the third test against India at the MCG, and with it win the Border-Gavaskar trophy.

How much does it cost to buy a clean background check in India's capital? Drivers for Uber say the equivalent of a $130 bribe.

From slum tours to luxury high tea, Bhanu Bhatnagar offers an insider's guide to India's fascinating metropolis.

Taxi-hailing service Uber has been banned in Delhi after one of its drivers allegedly raped a female passenger.

Women on the mean streets of Mumbai are safer it would seem than they are on those of New York city.

New Zealand's test spinning ranks are into their third year of the time classification known as PV (Post-Vettori) and off-spinner Mark Craig and leg-spinner Ish Sodhi are showing signs of promise.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking to turn India into a global manufacturing hub by curbing red tape.

Heather Ramsay takes a ride on a luxury riverboat along the Ganges and experiences many faces of India along the way.

Fireworks lit up Auckland skies last night as the city celebrated Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.

A judge says an Australian couple rejected their biological child born to an Indian surrogate mother because of the baby's gender, but they took home its twin sibling.

Diamonds are so hard to find that explorers have pretty much given up trying.

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