Pakistan to hold donors meeting for displaced tribals - report
About 2.3 million people, mainly in the northwest of the country, were displaced by fighting between the Pakistani army and Taliban militants in late 2008
Indian priest charged for conducting marriage at "knife-point" - report
Dehli court charges priest with kidnapping and compelling a woman to marry, even though the woman made no allegations against him
More abandoned, overseas Indian brides to get support
Women's groups say many young Indian women duped into wedlock abroad and then abandoned
Child malnutrition in India a "national shame" ?PM
Survey shows 42 percent of Indian children under five years old are underweight ? almost double the rate of sub-Saharan Africa
Pakistan launches Pink Bus Service for women - report
Bus company launches Pakistan's first ever female-only bus service to help women feel safer and curb incidents of sexual abuse
India launches anti-trafficking unit to curb prostitution - report
South Asia is the second largest venue for human trafficking in the world, after East Asia, according to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Indian farmers sacrifice girl for good harvest - report
Traditional healers and witchdoctors in Chhattisgarh state advise poor villagers to sacrifice young girls for wealth or good health
India's cyclone survivors need shelter - aid workers
Some aid workers fear the damage could be even worse than the devastation wreaked by the 2004 tsunami which hit the same area
"Silent Observer" fails to silence India's activists on girl abortions
New sonogram-tracking device can't determine doctors' intent or fit portable ultrasound machines
Indian state turns corrupt officials' homes into schools
"This is a revolutionary step towards curbing corruption" - Anjani Kumar Singh, official in Bihar's government