India’s Tamil Nadu state’s political party AIADMK says a total of 77 persons has died of grief and shock over the party supremo J Jayalalithaa’s illness and subsequent death.

The Allahabad high court in India calls the Islamic practice of divorcing a woman by saying the word 'talaq' three successive times "unconstitutional" and calls it a violation of the rights of Muslim women.

A bed-ridden Egyptian woman weighing 500kg has been granted visa by Indian Embassy in Cairo following intervention by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

India and Bangladesh are going to introduce water vessels for tourists of both the countries soon, Secretary of Shipping Ministry Ashoke Madhab Roy says.

J Jayalalithaa is buried with full state honours at Marina beach, near to the memorial of her mentor MG Ramachandran with hundreds of thousands of people following her funeral procession to get a final glimpse of their beloved "Amma" or mother.

The European Union welcomes Myanmar government’s move to establish an inquiry commission into the recent violence in Rakhine state.

The life of the leader of India's southern state of Tamil Nadu hang in the balance after she went into cardiac arrest, drawing large crowds to the hospital where doctors were fighting to save the hugely popular former actress.

A kidnapped Bangladeshi migrant worker is rescued from Malaysia and six persons are held for their alleged involvement with the kidnapping.

There is little doubt that the questionable homegrown commission is simply a tool to temporarily quell the backlash that Suu Kyi is facing as a result of her silence and inaction on the army crackdown in the northwest, resulting in at least 86 deaths and 10,000 fleeing to Bangladesh.

India posts the world's fastest growth rate for a large economy in the September quarter, yet that offers cold comfort after misery inflicted by the government's unexpected move to remove high denomination banknotes from circulation.

China has told Myanmar that they should work together to stabilise their shared border, in the wake of a series of attacks by

Human rights campaigners expressed shock and defiance yesterday after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte

An impeachment vote against South Korea's scandal-hit president will be postponed by at least a week, lawmakers said

Myanmar's membership of Asean must be reviewed because of its "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya Muslim

The Somali student who plowed his car into a crowd and slashed several people with a knife in Ohio had no ties to terror groups,

Indian Defence Minister Shri Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar arrives in Dhaka on a two-day official visit.

Three al-Qaeda operatives arrested from South India were planning to kill 22 top leaders, including the countries Prime Minister Narendra Modi, say Indian cops.

Police in West Bengal rescues 13 babies and discovers the skeletons of two infants in raids on homes for the elderly and mentally disabled, as a probe into a suspected international human trafficking ring widens.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye will not answer questions from prosecutors over a snowballing influence-peddling

Pakistan yesterday appointed General Qamar Javed Bajwa as its new military chief, the prime minister's office said, passing over the