Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday criticised Nato for its “flagrant” bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia in 1999, warning Beijing would “never allow such tragic history to repeat itself”.

An Indian city court yesterday extended the pre-trial detention of opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal until May 20, legal news website Live Law reported, weeks before the capital votes in national elections.

Two suspected rebels were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during a firefight with soldiers, police said Tuesday, at a time when campaigning for national elections is underway in the disputed territory..Scores of soldiers besieged a residential area in southern Kulgam district, some 7

A voter turnout of more than 25 percent was recorded today in the first four hours of polling in the third phase of India's Lok Sabha elections amid sporadic violence in West Bengal and reports of poll boycott in some villages of Uttar Pradesh

South Korea experienced its hottest April since comprehensive records began in 1973, the state weather agency said Tuesday, with average daily temperatures more than 2.5 degrees higher than in previous years

An attack at a hospital in southwest China left more than 10 people dead or wounded on Tuesday, according to state media, which did not specify the nature of the attack

Polling for more than half of the total number of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies will be completed by the end of the third phase of voting today, when the electoral fate of several high-profile leaders, including Home Minister Amit Shah and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, will be sealed.

India’s Election Commission (EC) yesterday warned political parties against misuse of AI-based tools to create deep fakes that distort information or propagate misinformation in the backdrop of manipulated videos targeting top Home Minister Amit Shah and arrest of some workers of opposition party Congress.

In an explosive turn of events yesterday, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has called for an anti-terror probe into allegations Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal received political funding from the banned Sikhs For Justice group founded by wanted terrorist Gurpatwant Pannun. Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party hit back swiftly via senior leader Saurabh Bhardwaj, who dismissed the call for a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as a “conspiracy” against the party and its leader.

India’s Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) yesterday sought the Election Commission (EC) to initiate action against BJP’s president J P Nadda and other senior leaders for allegedly violating the model code of conduct (MCC) by posting a video on social media intimidating members of SC and ST community not to vote for a particular candidate.

One soldier was killed and four injured as an Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district was ambushed on Saturday, three weeks before polling in the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency

At least 15 people have died after landslides and flooding in central Indonesia swept away dozens of houses and damaged roads, the country’s disaster agency said yesterday.

Pakistan experienced its “wettest April since 1961”, receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month, its weather agency said.

India will wait for Canadian police to share information on the three Indian men it has arrested and charged with the murder of a Sikh leader last year, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said yesterday.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar rejected US President Joe Biden’s comment that “xenophobia” was hobbling the South Asian nation’s economic growth,

India yesterday removed the ban on onion exports subject to a minimum export price of $550 per tonne, a decision that can help boost the income of a large section of farmers and comes amidst Lok Sabha polls in key producing regions, including the state of Maharashtra.

Indian police said yesterday they had arrested the social media chief of the country’s main opposition party over accusations he doctored a widely shared video during an ongoing national election.

Pakistan experienced its "wettest April since 1961", receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month, the country's weather agency said in a report

Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in northern Philippines, giving residents a rare spectacle and an extra source of income in a region dependent on rice-growing.

A bus veered into a ravine in Pakistan’s far north early yesterday, a local government spokesman said, killing 20 passengers, while 21 injured were rescued and taken to hospital.