India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 95-year-old mother Heeraben arrives at a bank in Gujarat's Gandhinagar to exchange banned currency notes.

Indian government bans Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), the NGO of Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, as an 'unlawful organisation' for five years with immediate effect.

Myanmar's security forces have killed almost 70 people since taking control of northern Rakhine state last month, the army says.

A Bangladeshi cattle grazier is killed allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members in the Indian territory opposite to Satkhira frontier.

Air quality has fallen to levels not seen in two decades amid calls for authorities to take urgent action.

Myanmar's military said 28 insurgents were killed during renewed clashes in western Rakhine state yesterday following a palpable uptick in violence in the strife-torn region.

Prime Minister Modi’s ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes as a way to detect black money may, in the long run, work out but for now, it has turned life for many in total turmoil.

52 people are killed and 102 injured so far in a bombing at the shrine of Shah Norani in Khuzdar district of Balochistan, DawnNews reports.

Myanmar's military says its troops killed six people and lost two soldiers in clashes with attackers in Rakhine state.

Four Americans are killed in a huge explosion inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan.

At least 43 people are killed and 100 are injured in an explosion at the shrine of Shah Norani in Khuzdar district of Balochistan in Pakistan.

Anger intensifies in India as banks struggled to dispense cash following the government's decision to withdraw large denomination notes in an attempt to uncover billions of dollars in undeclared wealth.

The scramble by millions of panicked consumers to exchange banned currency or deposit them turned tragic today when two people died in separate incidents in Maharashtra and Kerala amid chaos and confusion for the second straight day with poor cash flow.

Abdur Rauf Daud Merchant has been sent to jail by an Indian court in Mumbai soon after his deportation to the neighbouring country from Bangladesh.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi headed to Japan yesterday to seal a landmark nuclear energy pact and strengthen ties, as

Four people are killed in exchanges of fire between India and Pakistan in disputed Kashmir, officials said, the latest violence amid tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Much-awaited South Asian satellite, proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the benefit of countries of the region, will be launched in March next year, according to Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).chairman.

A leading English-language newspaper in Myanmar has suspended its reporting on restive Rakhine state, according to an internal memo, as pressure mounts on media to curtail critical coverage of army operations in the area.

Top-ranked India will look to settle old scores by unleashing their spinners on a fragile-looking England when the first Test of a five-match series begins in Rajkot on Wednesday.

China's online travel company Ctrip.com invests $180 million in popular Indian online travel company MakeMyTrip.