Typhoon Tapah approached southwestern Japan yesterday, with heavy rain and strong winds grounding hundreds of regional flights.

India’s coast guard has arrested six Myanmar men and seized $42 million worth of ketamine after spotting a suspicious vessel in the

President Hassan Rouhani denounces the presence of foreign forces in the Gulf and said Iran will put forward a peace plan, after arch-foe the United States ordered reinforcements to the tinderbox region.

Two Indian states will go to the polls in October, the election commissioner said yesterday, in a test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s

China and the Solomon Islands signed an agreement yesterday to establish diplomatic ties after the Pacific island nation ditched relations

The heckling and manhandling of India’s junior minister for Environment and Climate Change Babul Supriyo by a section of students at

Riot police and protesters in Hong Kong fought brief skirmishes near the Chinese border yesterday, the latest clashes during huge

The Maldives are not “mired in a Chinese debt trap”, the Chinese government’s top diplomat told the visiting Maldivian foreign minister,

A passenger train derailed during the morning rush hour in Hong Kong yesterday leaving eight people injured, authorities said. Images from the scene

Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, yesterday said she and her team would begin dialogue sessions with the community next week,

A crowd in Pakistan ransacked a school and Hindu temple after a Hindu principal was accused of blasphemy, police said yesterday, the

India’s Supreme Court yesterday asked the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir authorities to see that normalcy is restored on a selective

Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) might be an important agenda of discussion during Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to neighbouring India in early October, reports Hindustan Times.

India's crackdown on protests and dissent in Kashmir will drive more of the world's Muslims into extremism, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says during a fiery speech in the part of the disputed territory administered by Pakistan.

The US Treasury announces sanctions on three North Korean hacking groups it said were involved in the "WannaCry" ransomware attacks and hacking of international banks and customer accounts.

Key US Senators and Congressmen are now urging President Donald Trump to play a constructive role in helping resolve Kashmir and other underlying disputes between India and Pakistan.

Indian government has imposed an USD 850 per tonne minimum export price (MEP) on onion shipments.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has commended 58 countries and the European Union for supporting the cause of a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute in the line with UN Security Council resolutions and international laws.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi yesterday called on the United States to make efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, warning that applying “maximum pressure” would never work.

Visibility worsens in Malaysia's capital, with Kuala Lumpur's iconic towers shrouded by haze.