United Nations says its human rights envoy for Myanmar will probe escalating violence in the country, including a military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.

Police arrest four men in India's technology hub of Bengaluru over a video recording of a New Year attack on a woman that has sparked a national public debate about women's safety.

India will launch a rocket carrying 103 satellites next month in a record single mission, a report says, as its famously frugal space agency looks to zoom ahead in the commercial space race.

Pakistani police say they arrested 150 hardline Muslim activists as they tried to rally in support of the country's tough blasphemy law on the anniversary of a provincial governor's assassination over his call to reform the statute.

Indonesia has suspended military cooperation with Australia after teaching materials deemed offensive to Jakarta were

Suspected Muslim rebels staged the Philippines' biggest jailbreak yesterday when they stormed a dilapidated jail in the

Indian police rescue nearly 200 children, most of them under the age of 14, who has been found working in a brick kiln in the southern state of Telangana in one of the biggest operations in the region, officials say.

A commission probing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State denies security forces had abused Rohingya, days after a video emerged showing police beating civilians from Muslim minority.

Myanmar's government says it has detained several police officers over a video apparently showing Rohingya civilians being beaten, a rare admission that authorities may have carried out abuses against the Muslim minority.

The Supreme Court of India outlaws seeking votes in the name of religion, caste, race, community or language. The landmark judgment comes ahead of crucial assembly elections in five states where faith and caste are top poll issues.

North Korea is in the "final stages" of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile, leader Kim Jong-Un said

Indians yesterday rushed to change their bank notes before a deadline to deposit invalid rupee notes closed, as Prime Minister Modi

Rescuers yesterday pulled out two more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed coal mine in eastern India, taking the death toll to 10,

Actor Tapas Paul, a lawmaker of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, has been arrested in Kolkata by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a chit fund scam.

Actor Tapas Paul, a lawmaker of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, has been arrested in Kolkata by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a chit fund scam.

Actor Tapas Paul, a lawmaker of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, has been arrested in Kolkata by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a chit fund scam.

At least nine Indian miners are killed and nearly two dozen trapped when mine waste collapses at a coalfield run by state-owned Coal India Limited.

At least 39 people have been injured in two separate bomb attacks in the Philippines, authorities said yesterday.

Twenty-three Nobel laureates and global leaders urge the UN Security Council members to urgently put the Rohingya issue on its agenda and call upon the UN secretary-general to visit Myanmar as a priority.

Local English daily Kashmir Reader hit the stands yesterday after it was banned by the Jammu and Kashmir government for nearly three