The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attaches assets worth Rs 18.37 crore of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), an NGO based at Dongri in south Mumbai, in the Zakir Naik money laundering case.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif orders the re-opening of the two main border crossings to Afghanistan, after their closure last month following a series of attacks that Islamabad blamed on militants operating from across the frontier.

The Saudi king has cancelled a scheduled visit to Maldives because of an outbreak of swine flu in its capital, the government in Male

At least two Pakistani security personnel were killed in cross-border fire from Afghanistan yesterday, the military said, when gunmen

Political parties from southern Nepal withdrew support from the government yesterday, weakening an already fragile administration

As BJP had a grand Holi after their thumping victory in UP polls, a Pakistani girl has penned a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealing to him to work as harbinger of peace “if he wants to win more elections in future.”

Nepal has reported firmed an outbreak of severe H5N8 bird flu on a poultry farm in the Koshi region, the World Organisation for Animal

With India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's emphatic win in assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

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