South Korea registered record birth rate growth during the first five months of the year, a statistics agency official told AFP yesterday.

India today dismissed a British newspaper report that claimed two families in the UK received "wrong" bodies of victims of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad in June

Air India said yesterday it has completed precautionary inspections of the fuel control switch locking mechanism on all its Boeing 787 and 737 aircraft, with no issues detected.

No casualties; An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed soon after take-off in Ahmedabad on June 12, killing 241

An Indian court yesterday acquitted 12 men previously convicted for a series of bomb blasts that ripped through packed commuter trains in Mumbai in 2006 that killed 187 people.

China will not withdraw or use any water from the Yarlung Zangbo river, where a hydropower project is underway, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen said yesterday.

Militants in Pakistan have started using commercially acquired quadcopter drones to drop bombs on security forces in the country’s northwest, police said, a potentially dangerous development in the volatile region.

An Air India Airbus A320 flight veered off the runway as it landed during heavy rain at the Mumbai International Airport yesterday, briefly shutting the runway and damaging the underside of one of the plane’s engines.

He sent his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu and said he was stepping down with immediate effect

Over 500 injured across Pakistan since rains began

The ferry sinking en route to Bali this month was attributed to bad weather

An Indonesian ferry fire killed at least five people yesterday, the country’s coast guard said, while more than 200 others were saved with many jumping overboard to flee the huge blaze.

Sri Lanka’s independent regulator has sacked a senior police officer for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people including 45 foreigners.

PM Ishiba's centre-right LDP has governed Japan almost continuously since 1955, albeit with frequent changes of leader

China started building a mega-dam yesterday on a river running through Tibet and India, with Premier Li Qiang attending the commencement ceremony, state media said.

Myanmar's junta chief on Saturday attended annual commemorations for the country's assassinated independence hero for the first time since the military seized power more than four years ago

Lightning strikes during monsoon storms in eastern India this week killed at least 33 people and injured dozens, officials said yesterday.

Myanmar’s junta said yesterday it is offering cash rewards to fighters willing to desert armed groups defying its rule and “return to the legal fold” ahead of a slated election.

A passenger plane crash in Nepal last year that killed 18 people was caused by faulty information about the aircraft’s takeoff speed in the flight documentation, a report issued yesterday by a government-appointed investigation panel said.

Myanmar’s junta yesterday claimed to have ousted armed rebels who captured a town near the military’s main officer training academy after a year-long battle.