An Indian court has deferred till July 17 the hearing on Bollywood super star Salman Khan's plea challenging his sentence of five years in prison for poaching endangered black bucks.

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal is shot at and injured during a corner meeting in Narowal's Kanjrur tehsil on Sunday, in what Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif described as an "assassination attempt".

​Indian soldiers shot dead five Kashmir militants including a rebel university teacher in a gunfight that triggered protests in which five civilians were killed.

Unicef has estimated that more than 100,000 people including approximately 55,000 children, mostly Rohingyas, are at risk due to floods and landslides in Cox's Bazar district which is one of the most flood prone areas of Bangladesh.

Nepal’s Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supply, Matrika Prasad Yadav has said that Nepal and Bangladesh will be connected via a tunnel way so as to promote the transnational road connectivity.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh expects China, Russia, India and Japan to play a major role in resolving the Rohingya crisis.

Twin blasts in the Afghan capital Kabul kills 25 people, including journalists who had arrived to report on the first explosion and who were apparently targeted by a suicide bomber in a second attack, officials say.

Gunmen killed a provincial deputy governor and three others in an ambush in Afghanistan yesterday, officials said, as the Taliban carried out a spate of attacks across the country after launching their spring offensive.

India has constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and by some measures the biggest and most diverse media industry in the

At least 13 children were killed and five critically injured yesterday after a train smashed into a small school bus in northern India, an official said.

A Pakistani court disqualified Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif from parliament yesterday, striking another blow to the ruling Pakistan

The leaders of India and China are set to make their boldest attempt yet at rapprochement in talks this week just months after a

Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) opines that the continuation of border killings, torture and harassment are contradictory to international law and human rights.

Twelve years after Manu Sharma was sentenced to life in prison for killing Indian model Jessica Lall for denying him a drink at a party, her sister Sabrina Lall says she "forgives him" and won't object to his release.

Indian Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today rejected a notice given by opposition parties led by Congress for impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra citing “lack of substantial merit in it”, sources said.

Indian security forces gun down 16 Maoists in a forest in western Indian state of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district.

Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing tells military personnel in the country that they must obey the law, citing as an example the sentencing of seven soldiers for a massacre of Rohingya Muslim men that was the subject of a Reuters investigation.

India's Supreme Court yesterday dismissed petitions calling for an investigation into the death of a lower court judge in 2014 when he was presiding over a case against a top political aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

India has thrown open 160 educational institutions of national importance to foreign students in the first-ever initiative of its kind offering 15,000 seats under the programme in the first round.

An Indian man missing for 40 years was to be reunited with his family yesterday after a YouTube video of him singing a popular Hindi film song went viral.