Officials say flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing.

Inadequate urban planning has compounded the crisis, with authorities struggling every year to manage the situation. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Pakistan has extended its ban on Indian airlines flying over its airspace, as the two countries continue to block each other’s commercial flights due to political tension. Pakistan authorities have issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) stating that its airspace will remain closed to Indian-registered...

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area.

India has successfully test-fired an indigenously developed intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead deep into the territory of its geopolitical rival, China, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares for his first visit there in years.

By Saeed Shah, Rajendra Jadhav and Shilpa JamkhandikarISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Massive, sudden downpours of rain known as cloudbursts have struck Pakistan and India during this monsoon season, killing hundreds of people in the flash floods and landslides they have triggered.

India said it launched missiles targeting "terrorist infrastructure" in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, the divided Himalayan territory that India also controls a section of.

And India did not seem to be backing away from its declaration that it would no longer comply with a river treaty between the two countries — a critical factor for Pakistan, which said that any ...

A Pakistani diplomat Tuesday hit back at India for accusing Pakistan, during a UN Security Council debate on conflict-related sexual violence, of carrying out human rights abuses, calling New Delhi's charges "fallacious. "These falsehoods are nothing more ...