KARACHI - Poor are more vulnerable to natural calamities in South Asian countries, said experts from regional countries at a two-day regional conference, ‘Disaster Response in South Asia— Exploring commonalities Realizing Joint Frameworks’, that began in the city on ...

Noting that Rajasthan, being a border state, is "vulnerable" to terror attacks, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday asked the state government to remain on "high alert" against infiltration of terrorists "from across the border". "Being a border state and having a history of terror ...

Suspected separatist rebels opened fire on a family on Tuesday killing two young children and their father in the Muslim-majority south of Thailand, police said. The father, a 53-year-old fruit seller, was driving with his wife and two children in Narathiwat province when a gang believed to be ...