Indian police rescue nearly 200 children, most of them under the age of 14, who has been found working in a brick kiln in the southern state of Telangana in one of the biggest operations in the region, officials say.

A commission probing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State denies security forces had abused Rohingya, days after a video emerged showing police beating civilians from Muslim minority.

Myanmar's government says it has detained several police officers over a video apparently showing Rohingya civilians being beaten, a rare admission that authorities may have carried out abuses against the Muslim minority.

The Supreme Court of India outlaws seeking votes in the name of religion, caste, race, community or language. The landmark judgment comes ahead of crucial assembly elections in five states where faith and caste are top poll issues.

North Korea is in the "final stages" of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile, leader Kim Jong-Un said

Indians yesterday rushed to change their bank notes before a deadline to deposit invalid rupee notes closed, as Prime Minister Modi

Rescuers yesterday pulled out two more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed coal mine in eastern India, taking the death toll to 10,

Actor Tapas Paul, a lawmaker of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, has been arrested in Kolkata by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a chit fund scam.

Actor Tapas Paul, a lawmaker of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, has been arrested in Kolkata by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a chit fund scam.

Actor Tapas Paul, a lawmaker of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, has been arrested in Kolkata by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a chit fund scam.

At least nine Indian miners are killed and nearly two dozen trapped when mine waste collapses at a coalfield run by state-owned Coal India Limited.

At least 39 people have been injured in two separate bomb attacks in the Philippines, authorities said yesterday.

Twenty-three Nobel laureates and global leaders urge the UN Security Council members to urgently put the Rohingya issue on its agenda and call upon the UN secretary-general to visit Myanmar as a priority.

Local English daily Kashmir Reader hit the stands yesterday after it was banned by the Jammu and Kashmir government for nearly three

Pakistani police yesterday caught three men accused of preparing home-made liquor mixed with aftershave that killed 34 people

An Indian plane carrying 161 passengers and crew skidded off the runway at Goa airport early yesterday, injuring 15 people. The Indian

Taiwan said yesterday it was closely monitoring the movements of China's sole aircraft carrier and five other

Bangladesh can become the first South Asian neighbour to get Indian Railways' online train ticket booking facilities if the Indian Home Ministry clears the plan.

The “last” hurdle for India’s ambitious Ken-Betwa river-linking project is cleared with the wildlife board giving its green signal, the Indian government announces.

China's first aircraft carrier will carry out drills in the Western Pacific, in what the navy called part of routine exercises,