A woman from Pakistan's marginalised Hindu minority is elected to the senate for the first time ever in an election over the weekend in which a Taliban-linked cleric was defeated.

The BJP will form the next government in Nagaland with the help of other parties, Union minister and BJP incharge

Meghalaya threw up a hung Assembly yesterday with the ruling Congress emerging as the single largest party after

A plan for India to build a military base on an outlying Seychelles island has won favour among the archipelago

China lodged an official protest with the United States yesterday, saying it was "strongly dissatisfied" after the US Senate passed a bill promoting relations with self-governing Taiwan.

A suicide bomber killed four soldiers in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta and a gunman shot dead two policemen in a separate

Singapore government ministers were told yesterday their salaries will stay frozen despite a recommendation for a hike. Ministerial

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he would not cooperate with UN investigators looking into extrajudicial killings under his rule, telling police and soldiers not to cooperate with any probe.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in yesterday said Japan cannot declare the issue of its former wartime sex slaves "over", repeating calls for Tokyo to apologise over the issue and confront wrongdoings.

Maldives on Wednesday denied a Japanese foreign ministry statement that said a Maldives-flagged vessel was used to illegally transfer goods from a North Korean-flagged tanker in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.

China is developing technologies to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, state media reported yesterday, as Beijing pushes forward

South Korean prosecutors yesterday demanded a 30-year-jail sentence for former president Park Geun-hye, sacked over a wide-

China's plan for President Xi Jinping to remain in office indefinitely has sparked social media opposition, drawing

Cambodia's ruling party swept controversial Senate elections yesterday, early results suggest, in a vote derided as a "farce" by critics as it proceeded without a viable opposition.

A blacklisted North Korean general arrives in the South for the Winter Olympics closing ceremony, which will also be attended by US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka.

The entire Bollywood and television industry is shocked by the news of Sridevi’s sudden demise.

A newly married man and his grandmother are killed in India when a wedding gift they were opening exploded.

Bollywood actress Sridevi, whose acting prowess and beguiling eyes helped her rule Bollywood in 1980s, died of cardiac arrest in Dubai at the age of 54 plunging the Indian cinema industry into mourning.

Regional leaders launched construction work on the Afghan section of an $8 billion natural gas pipeline that will link the energy-rich Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India. Ex-Soviet Turkmenistan holds the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves but has been heavily dependent on gas exports to China after Russia cut back gas imports in the past few years.

US Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong Un's sister, while in South