A 32-year-old woman was beaten up and sexually assaulted by a cabbie inside a black-and-yellow taxi in Dwarka, Delhi on Thursday night.

The Jawaharlal Nehru government had placed the family and relatives of Subhas Chandra Bose on surveillance for two decades.

10-year-old Shiva Rawat died after being allegedly beaten up by his principal Lalit Kumar Verma on suspicion of stealing pencils.

Investors were focused on Japan as the country's benchmark Nikkei 225 index traded above 20,000 for the first time since 2000.

A railway between China and Nepal that could include a tunnel under Mount Everest is under consideration, Chinese state media said

A Japanese research team said yesterday it had developed a field test for Ebola that gives results in just over 11 minutes -- down from

Gunmen dressed in military uniforms have stormed the office of the attorney general in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, killing at least five people and injuring 25.

Reports from the ground suggest at least 30 farmers have allegedly died of trauma or suicide in the past four days in north India.

Two road accidents killed 26 people and injured nine others in two Chinese provinces over the weekend, according to state media and

Two minor cousins aged 12 and 13 were kidnapped and gang raped at gunpoint by five men at a village on Tuesday night

Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman recognized as the world's oldest person died early on Wednesday surrounded by her grandchildren.

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is to remain in prison after his request for a royal pardon was turned down

Police have arrested three editors from a Malaysian news portal and charged them with sedition over a news report

Palash, the largest tiger at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai, still paces his cage for the hour leading up to dinner and still pounces on his meal when his handlers lift the gate to his feeding room. But lately what the 440-pound feline finds is not his usual 15 pounds of raw beef, fresh from the slaughter.

Myanmar government and 16 ethnic armed groups agree on the draft of a nationwide ceasefire towards ending over 65 years of armed conflict in the country.

The heads of Arab League countries meeting in Egypt have agree to create a joint Arab military force.

The news that Pakistan security forces killed 30 militants in gun battles in the mountainous northwestern Khyber region on Saturday, is being denied by a spokesman for the militants.

The calm at the BCCI office was shattered by the constant ringing of the landlines as fans from Pakistan and Bangladesh calls after team India lost in the quarterfinals against Australia, reports Indian Express.

A former Chinese regional police chief has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the country's top prosecution agency said yesterday,

Known as the “Jewel of the Desert,” the bustling city climbed five places to claim bragging rights to the top spot.