Pranab Mukherjee was favoured by late President R Venkataraman to be the Prime Minister after the fall of VP Singh government in 1990 but Rajiv Gandhi thought otherwise.

Setting an example of communal harmony, several Durga pujas are being organised by the Muslim community in Tripura.

A commission of inquiry in India has concluded that the lynching of a man over rumours he kept and consumed beef was premeditated and not spontaneous.

The Indian capital held its first "car-free day" yesterday to try to improve New Delhi's notoriously filthy air, but motorists were seen ignoring signs to keep off the roads.

Pakistan's military yesterday said it had killed 21 militants in air strikes in a restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan. The strikes were carried out

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will tell US President Barack Obama this week that Islamabad will not accept limits on its use of small tactical nuclear weapons, Pakistani officials said yesterday.

Amnesty International said Bangladeshi migrants and persecuted Rohingya fleeing Myanmar faced "hellish" conditions on trafficking boats.

When Myanmar votes next month in what has been billed as its first free and fair election in 25 years, around 4 million of his fellow citizens, won't be taking part.

Allegations that Sri Lankan troops committed war crimes are "credible", a judge appointed by the island's former president has concluded

An Indian Uber taxi driver was convicted yesterday of raping a young female passenger in the capital last year, a case that sparked fresh

Pakistan's top religious body has said women are not required to cover their faces, hands or feet under Islamic Sharia law, a rare judgement from the conservative council of clerics seen as "encouraging" by rights activists yesterday.

The Congress yesterday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had failed in his “constitutional and moral obligations” by not against those spreading hatred.

The Maldives' highest court has overturned an unprecedented sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, a crime in

A day after his critical comments regarding the lynching of a Kashmiri truck driver for alleged cow killing, Independent lawmaker of Jammu and Kashmir Engineer Rashid was attacked with ink yesterday.

The deputy prime minister of fuel-starved Nepal said yesterday that Indian officials have assured him of increased supplies.

The death toll from Typhoon Koppu climbed to 16 and many residents of flooded farming villages in the Philippines remain trapped on their rooftops with animals being floated down fast-rising rivers.

A toddler and a five-year-old girl were raped in separate attacks in New Delhi overnight with at least one gang-raped, police said yesterday, as activists warned of an "epidemic" of sexual violence in the capital.

Two Indian girls aged two-and-a-half and five years old were raped in separate incidents in New Delhi overnight.

Thirteen people, including three children, were killed on Saturday and ten others injured when a mini-truck carrying a marriage party collided with a bus at Andhra Pradesh.

A senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that Muslims living in the country should give up consuming beef.