Indian Olympic Association's goodwill ambassador Salman Khan forgets the name of Dipa Karmakar, the first Indian to qualify for the vault event at the Rio Olympics.

Myanmar will begin long-planned talks with armed ethnic groups on august 31, as the government's de facto leader

Thailand will hold a general election in 2017, the country's junta chief confirmed Tuesday, his first comments since

The Japanese city of Nagasaki yesterday marked 71 years since its destruction by a US atomic bomb. A bell tolled as thousands of people,

Pakistan's lawyers boycotted courts and staged protests nationwide yesterday after a horrific suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital which

India yesterday summoned Pakistan's high commissioner in New Delhi to protest against what it said was the continued

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito may be heir to one of the world's oldest monarchies, but he is not shy about knocking the institution he represents or his country's warring past.

Pellet guns have no place in law enforcement and should be banned immediately, human rights group Amnesty International India has said, following the death of a third person owing to injuries inflicted by the weapons in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Japan issued a new protest to Beijing yesterday after Chinese coastguard ships and about 230 fishing vessels sailed

The bodies of seventeen people who died when a road bridge between Mumbai and Goa collapsed have been recovered

Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's main opposition party, has undergone shoulder surgery at a New Delhi hospital after

China is to set up an anti-terrorism alliance with Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, state media said yesterday,

Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" was sworn in as Nepal's new Prime Minister yesterday, a day after being elected by

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday called for tough action against terrorism and countries supporting it,

An undiagnosed disease has killed more than 30 children in a remote part of Myanmar, officials said yesterday, with

India's Congress President Sonia Gandhi's condition is "stable" and she is recovering at the Army's Research and

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday picked a close confidante with staunchly nationalist views as the new

North Korea fired a ballistic missile directly into Japanese-controlled waters for the first time yesterday, drawing an

Two soldiers and two suspected rebels were killed overnight in a gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmir, the Indian

A man killed his two sisters on the eve of their weddings in Pakistan's central Punjab province, police said yesterday,