Indians retrieve Himalayan bodies
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Mountaineers retrieve three bodies believed to have been buried for 22 years on an Indian glacier.
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PORT BLAIR, India -- Rescuers began reaching India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands yesterday to find barely a third of residents on one island were still alive two days after a devastating tsunami.
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The body of a 23-year-old charity worker is found partially covered by stones in a gully in northern India.
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CUDDALORE: Rescue workers pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India on Tuesday, as the government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from tsunami that lashed the country&#39;s south would rise further.
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Indian archaeologists have  started giving a face-lift to the centuries-old Taj Mahal by  applying a mud pack to the marble exteriors of the country's  most famous monument.
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Rescue teams struggled to locate  and remove the charred bodies of 54 Indian miners killed after  the roof of a state-owned coal mine collapsed following an  explosion, authorities said on Friday.
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SILIGURI, India  - Stone chips fly as Rina, her  face frowning in concentration, expertly crushes a rock to  rubble in just a few seconds on the banks of a swift brown  river in eastern India.
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Rescuers found the bodies Thursday of 30 miners killed after an explosion and gas leak in a coal mine in eastern India, an official said.
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A Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the Himalayas. A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India.
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Ayurveda, an ancient Hindu healing method, has seen a resurgence as India vies for a share of the lucrative Asian medical tourism market by offering traditional massages and beauty treatments to wealthy tourists.
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KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepalese hunters have captured a wild elephant that trampled to death at least 12 people and injured several others in the country's southeast, officials said Sunday.
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Rescuers searching through knee-deep water found 33 more bodies in India's remote northeastern state of Assam on Sunday, bringing the death toll from unseasonably heavy rains in South Asia to 177.
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Visa applications from thousands of people seeking to travel to India between 2002 and 2005 were sent to a recycling center by the Indian consulate in San Francisco. Officials thought the data had been destroyed; It hadn't.
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Pakistani soldiers searching a cave found the body of a fugitive tribal leader whose death in a military raid sparked large-scale unrest, but it was pinned under a boulder and will take days to retrieve, army officials said Thursday.
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Finnish forensic experts have arrived in Nepal to help probe a site believed to contain the remains of people abducted and killed by the army during a bitter civil war, officials said.
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Rescuers recovered dozens of bodies from a village devastated by landslides Wednesday on Indonesia's Java island as authorities struggled to get heavy lifting equipment to the affected areas. Officials said at least 78 people were killed or feared dead.
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NEW DELHI: Rescue workers pulled corpses from canals and waterlogged fields on Tuesday, as Government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country&#39;s southern coastal areas, would rise further.