In initial small steps toward reconciliation, South Korea say it would remove loudspeakers that blared propaganda across the border, while North Korea says it would shift its clocks to align with its southern neighbor.

In a first, India and Pakistan will be part of a multi-nation counter-terror exercise in September, which will also be joined by China and

A police officer who testified that police framed two Reuters reporters has been sentenced to an undisclosed prison term for violating

The Indian government's 'Adopt a Monument' scheme to hand over upkeep of nearly 100 major historical structures to corporate

India has electrified all its villages 12 days ahead of a deadline set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government said yesterday,

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would move the country's clocks 30 minutes forward to unify with the South's time zone as a

North Korea promised to close its atomic test site next month and invite US weapons experts to the country, Seoul says, as US President Donald Trump expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal with the secretive regime.

Taliban fighters seized a district centre in northern Afghanistan yesterday, while a bomb at an army base in the southern province

At Seoul's Nampo Myeonok noodle bar, the owner was rushed off her feet, shouting at a long queue of hungry punters that she was

South Koreans yesterday pored over every detail of a historic summit in the Demilitarized Zone, transfixed by an extraordinary

Southeast Asia faces "very real" threats from the Islamic State (IS) group despite their defeat in the Middle East, as well as

North Korea's state news agency on Saturday called the inter-Korean summit a turning point for the Korean peninsula, while US President Donald Trump said he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un.

China heap praise on the leaders of the two Koreas for holding a landmark summit, calling their handshake over the Military Demarcation Line that divides the peninsula a "historic moment".

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in embrace after pledging to work for the "complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula," punctuating a day of smiles and handshakes at the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will greet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un today as the latter crosses a military demarcation line to enter the South for the first summit between the two sides in more than a decade, South Korea said.

Armenia's parliament yesterday set May 1 as the date to elect a prime minister in a bid to defuse rapidly escalating tensions as top officials held talks in Moscow.

China flew bombers and fighter jets around Taiwan yesterday, officials said, in a new show of force that the defence ministry said was directed at "independence forces" on the self-ruled island.

A dispute between Kuwait and the Philippines over reports of abuse of Philippine workers took a turn for the worse yesterday with the Philippines expressing "great displeasure" about Kuwait's expulsion of its ambassador.

Former Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Patel is shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, reports Indian news portal NDTV.

Police yesterday said that dozens of Maoist guerrillas had been killed in jungle raids in India's remote interior by commandos fighting the