The Pakistan government yesterday directed the interior ministry to block the national identity card (NIC) and passport of former

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday suffered major setbacks in by-elections to four parliamentary and 10

Bimala Begum is worried. She is among nearly three million married women in India's northeastern state of Assam who have been

Military history fans have a rare chance to buy a German World War II bunker put up by the Nazis in the British Isles.

Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific

Two new cases of the deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus is confirmed in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where another two people were killed by the virus, a health official says.

Chinese engineers soon will have a world-record-holding product to offer to express delivery companies: the largest civilian drone.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis vowed Tuesday that the US would keep confronting China over its territorial claims in the South China

Indonesia and India yesterday pledged to step up defence and maritime cooperation, with plans to develop a strategic Indonesian

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he wants to develop an island on a cluster of rocks previously disputed with

Indian police were forced to escort water tankers through the streets of Shimla yesterday as an unprecedented shortage sparked brawls

A Indian soldier has died in West Bengal state of suspected infection by the Nipah virus, an official said yesterday, heightening fears the

Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada presents the first federal budget for the fiscal year 2018-19 in Parliament on Tuesday. The Rs 1.31 trillion fiscal plan focuses on energy, infrastructure and proposes a string of reforms in social and agriculture sectors.

A senior North Korean official is headed to New York to discuss an upcoming summit, US President Donald Trump said yesterday, the latest indication that an on-again-off-again meeting between Trump and North Korea's leader may go ahead next month.

Storms and lightning across a swathe of northern India kills at least 47 people, officials say, the latest deaths from freak weather that has battered the country this month.

A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Singapore on Monday night, Japanese public broadcaster NHK says, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with US President Donald Trump is going ahead.

Iran's president will attend a summit with his Chinese and Russian counterparts next month, officials in Beijing said yesterday, as they try to salvage the nuclear deal thrown into upheaval by Donald Trump.

China has voiced "strong dissatisfaction" after two US warships sailed by an island claimed by Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, adding to simmering tensions in the strategic waterway.

Myanmar President U Win Myint pardons 58 displaced Rohingyas who are detained while attempting to re-enter the country from Bangladesh.

Authorities in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir have initiated the process of constructing over 5,500 underground bunkers and 200