Chinese scientists have come up with a new membrane material which can efficiently separate salt from water and has other water purification functions.

Pakistan's interior minister Ahsan Iqbal has been shot in the arm in a suspected assassination attempt at a public meeting in Punjab

Twenty-three people were killed and 11 wounded after gas explosions tore through two neighbouring coal mines in Balochistan,

Malaysia has arrested more than a dozen members of an alleged people trafficking syndicate after intercepting a ship carrying 127 Sri

Seven Indian engineers and an Afghan national working for a power plant in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan were kidnapped

Indian police yesterday said they have arrested the main suspect in the gang rape and gruesome murder of a teenage girl. Dhanu Bhuiyan

Indian soldiers shot dead five Kashmir militants including a rebel university teacher in a gunfight yesterday that triggered violent

Sixteen miners are killed and nine others are wounded when a coal mine collapsed due to a gas explosion in southwestern Pakistan, officials say.

The road to Malaysia's May 9 general election is getting thornier for opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad: officials are cutting out or painting over his image on some billboards and police are investigating him for spreading "fake news".

There is widespread interest about autonomous vehicles in India, Malaysia, China and South Korea, according to a survey in selected countries.

A series of powerful super storms that tore through India this week kills 143 people, as officials warns the death toll could rise with more extreme weather expected.

Afghanistan's slain journalists were remembered on World Press Freedom Day yesterday, days after the deadliest attack on the country's media since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday told a visiting Chinese diplomat that he is committed to denuclearisation, China's foreign ministry said, as diplomatic efforts to bring lasting peace to the Korean peninsula gather pace.

An Indian tea vendor caught on video taking water from a train toilet before selling his drinks to passengers is fined amid heightened concern in India over food safety.

Malaysian authorities are investigating opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad under an anti-fake news law over claims that his plane was

A judge in Myanmar yesterday declared that a witness who said two Reuters reporters accused of possessing state secrets were framed

An Indian court convicts notorious gangster Chhota Rajan and eight others of murdering a journalist in a drive-by shooting in Mumbai seven years ago.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of the United Kingdom launch the Asia Regional Trade and Connectivity Fund (ARTCF) from which Bangladesh will be benefited.

A Danish horse groomer is the first to be punished under the newly enacted Anti-Fake News Act, but claims he did not know of such law in Malaysia as he has only been here for 10 days.

Unicef has estimated that more than 100,000 people including approximately 55,000 children, mostly Rohingyas, are at risk due to floods and landslides in Cox's Bazar district which is one of the most flood prone areas of Bangladesh.