A helicopter crashed into a hillside in central Nepal yesterday, killing five on board, including a Japanese tourist, officials said. One

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and India’s Border Security Force (BSF) agree on different measures against criminal activities at the border between the two countries.

India's top court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex yesterday, in a landmark judgement that sparked celebrations across India and elsewhere in South Asia, where activists hope to push for similar reform.

Tens of thousands of supporters of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse staged a huge night rally in Colombo late Wednesday as the ex-leader demanded snap elections.

Top Indian and US officials yesterday touted deepening ties that will see greater cooperation between the two countries' militaries -- and will likely result in India buying more American arms.

Indian police have arrested a woman and four others after her nine-year-old stepdaughter was allegedly gang-raped and murdered, in

Pakistan yesterday summoned India's deputy high commissioner to protest the "unprovoked ceasefire violations" across the Line of

A 66-foot deck of a bridge in south Kolkata collapsed on Tuesday evening, snuffing out one life, trapping several people and crushing many vehicles.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad yesterday, in the first high-level US visit to the new government, looking to reset relations strained over Islamist militants and Afghanistan war.

Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant Haqqani network, one of the most powerful and feared groups in the Afghan insurgency, has died after a long

“Rat fever" has killed at least 12 people with another 54 suspected fatal cases in the southern Indian state of Kerala since August, after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said yesterday. A total of 372 people have been infected with the disease, known properly as leptospirosis.

A global outcry over the jailing of two Reuters journalists has been met with silence from Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a stony response that an official defended yesterday as a reluctance to criticise the judiciary.

Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's state secrets law while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims were jailed for seven years yesterday, fuelling international outrage a week after the army was accused of genocide.

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) takes up the issue of arrest of Bangladeshi nationals at the border and smuggling of narcotics from India into Bangladesh on the first day of the biannual conference with India’s Border Security Force (BSF) in New Delhi.

Indian police have arrested a senior Buddhist monk accused of sexually abusing 15 boys at a meditation centre he ran in a holy city, officials said yesterday.

A general strike and curfew brought Indian-administered Kashmir to a standstill yesterday ahead of a landmark Supreme Court hearing centred on the region's autonomy.

India's top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of

Punjab's new information minister, Islamist politician Fayaz-ul-Hasan Chohan, has announced a ban on "vulgar" movie billboards in the Pakistani province, angering those who fear the growing influence of hardliners under new Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the absence of an international policy against the generation of blasphemous content is a “collective failure” on part of the Muslim countries.

Facebook's ban of Myanmar's military leaders marks a new step for the leading social network against state "actors" -- and raises thorny questions on how the company deals with repressive regimes using the platform.