The Balinese Kite Festival is a seasonal religious festival, which is intended to send a message to Hindu Gods to create abundant harvests and crops.

Leaked letter reveals betrayal of 400,000 ‘untouchables’ who live in Britain

Paramilitary soldiers have recovered 20 bodies from a steep hillside in northern India where a rescue helicopter crashed while attempting to evacuate people stranded in monsoon floods, the country's air force chief said.

More than 100 people have died in flooding this week in the northern state of Uttarakhand.

The death toll following another 24 hours of severe flooding in northern India has risen to more than 70, according to local media reports.

Main opposition party announces country's most polarising politician will lead its election campaign – setting Modi up for a show-down with Rahul Gandhi

One of the main attractions of this year’s Brighton Festival is a night-time traipse around Preston Manor, a gorgeous historic house in the suburbs which was bequeathed to the city by the Stanford family in 1932.

A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, injuring all 21 people on board.

The Government has climbed down over proposals to outlaw discrimination on grounds of caste.

Sexual violence has topped the country's political agenda since the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student on a bus

The Kama Sutra, the 2,000-year-old sex manual, has been sexed-up for a 21st Century audience with a new app that enables couples to study its poses in 3D

A senior midwife told an Indian woman her baby could not be terminated as she miscarried in an Irish hospital because “it’s a Catholic thing”, an inquest has heard.

Bathing in this polluted river makes you clean… that’s faith

Alban Berg’s Lulu is a great opera, and greatly problematic.