Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was given the additional charge of the defence ministry yesterday after Manohar Parrikar resigned to

Sri Lanka has asked the United Nations for two more years to investigate war crimes as a previous deadline lapses, Colombo said

In a victory speech yesterday evening, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the BJP's near-historic victory in state elections is a mandate by the poor for the opportunities the BJP has afforded them and will continue to offer them.

To strengthen the fight against extremism and terrorism in South Asia and neighbouring countries, a three-day conference with the region’s police chiefs begins in Dhaka.

The Indian armed forces continue to lose around 100 personnel to suicides every year despite successive governments holding that several measures have been taken to reduce the stress among soldiers.

Since taking oath on May 20 2011, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has not taken her salary or allowances she is entitled to.

India's first lunar probe - Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft - which was considered lost is still orbiting the moon, NASA scientists have discovered. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after it was launched on October 22, 2008.

At least 11 para-military personnel were killed and five others wounded when armed Maoists attacked them in a dense forest in India’s Chhattisgarh state, police say.

Indian border guards killed a Nepali citizen over a local dispute in a rare shooting at the border, Nepal's government said, prompting

The emergence of Harakah al Yaqin, the first Rohingya Muslim insurgent group to organise in Myanmar in decades, signals a dangerous new phase in a crisis that is increasingly attracting the attention of extremists in Pakistan and the Middle East.

The Maldives government on Wednesday denied it was selling a cluster of small islands to Saudi Arabia, following opposition protests

A teenage boy and two militants were killed in a firefight with government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday that brought

Indian doctors yesterday said that an Egyptian who is believed to be the world's heaviest woman had successfully undergone weight-loss

Thousands of people have fled clashes between the Myanmar military and ethnic rebels along the border with China, a Chinese official says.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requests the Indonesian government to play a role in sending back the Myanmar refugees from Bangladesh.

At least 30 people die in clashes between ethnic rebels and Myanmar security forces in a restive area along the border with China.

India’s national airline claims to have set a new record with the first round-the-world flight staffed entirely by women.

The Central government is considering more steps to curb cash transactions even as a few banks have already started imposing charges after limited transactions. The government is now considering imposing a cap on cash holding limit as suggested by the SIT.

Onetime discarded coach, Chandika Hathurusingha has returned to the land that evicted him from a possible coaching job this time fully armed with a rising band of cricketers and waiting to settle an old score.

The number of students studying in China from countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road has increased greatly under a series of preferential policies, education officials say.