In a setback for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday ordered a probe into the Panama papers

Eight activists of banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) are killed in an encounter hours after they escaped from a high-security prison in Bhopal after killing a head constable.

The Indian army said it had destroyed four Pakistani military posts on Saturday along its contested border, the latest escalation

In most of the Asian countries including Bangladesh, pregnancy comes with a significant risk of death. The WHO data reveals stark disparities across Asia when it comes to maternal mortality ratio - the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.

In a bid to strengthen vigil along the riverine border with Bangladesh, Indian Border Security Force has decided to deploy six to seven floating border outposts (BOP) next year, reports Hindustan Times.

Sri Lanka will sell to a Chinese company 80 percent of a $1.5-billion port in its south, where China has also been offered an investment

A faction of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) cooperated with Islamic State this week in an attack on a police

Pakistani police yesterday fired tear gas at stone-throwing supporters of opposition leader Imran Khan who defied a ban on public

"Politics should never override policy." This was the message of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to IAS officers as a young batch met him

A welfare state cannot allow anybody to die for the reason that he cannot afford treatment, the High Court of Kerala has said.

An Afghan police official says that Taliban insurgents have killed at least 20 civilians after they were abducted in a remote central province.

As ISIS loses ground in Middle East, there are fears it will take its fight elsewhere, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines.

Pakistan mourns the killing of at least 61 people in a brutal gun and suicide bomb assault on a police academy, the deadliest attack on a security installation in the country's history.

Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead an intelligence officer in northwest Pakistan yesterday, police said, in an attack claimed

At least 21 Maoists killed by Indian security forces in an encounter at Malkangiri located in eastern state of Odisha, NDTV reports.

Vinay Prabhakar MP, vice-president of Indian ruling party BJP, terms Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina a rare leader of the entire subcontinent.

Amnesty International yesterday protested a "reprehensible" ruling by Pakistan's Supreme Court that said schizophrenia is "not a

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday issued notice to Nawaz Sharif and his family members in the ' Panama Papers' leaks case, acting on petitions seeking his disqualification over alleged corruption and illegally possessing assets abroad.

At least eight workers were killed yesterday in a huge explosion set off by a blaze at a fireworks factory in southern Indian, police said.

The head of Nepal's anti-corruption commission has been suspended after lawmakers accused him of abusing his position and lodged a