Singapore Airlines said Tuesday it has offered $10,000 compensation to passengers who suffered minor injuries on a flight hit by violent turbulence last month and will discuss higher payouts with those more badly hurt

Armed men ambushed a convoy carrying the security team of the chief minister of India’s troubled northeastern state of Manipur yesterday, wounding two people, but the leader was not with them at the time, officials said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday unveiled his coalition government after a surprise election setback lost his Hindu-nationalist party an overall majority.

Flooding and landslides in northern Vietnam have killed three people, state media said yesterday, after days of heavy rain that partially submerged thousands of homes.

Trinamool Congress lawmaker Sagarika Ghose today said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee switched off all her lights and sat in darkness at her home during the entire swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi and central ministers on Sunday evening

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday offered a brief congratulations to his counterpart Narendra Modi on his re-election in rival India, almost a week after the results came in

India's heatwave is the longest ever to hit the country, the government's top weather expert said Monday as he warned people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures

Assuming charge a day after being sworn in for his third term, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today signed his first file authorizing the release of funds amounting to Rs 20,000 crore under a special existing scheme which is aimed at benefitting around 9.3 crore farmers

Japanese laws making it easier for the country to deport failed asylum seekers took effect Monday, with campaigners warning that the new system will put lives at risk

Narendra Modi was yesterday sworn in as India’s prime minister for a record-equalling third consecutive term. He will lead the 71-member BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.

At least nine pilgrims have been killed and 33 others have been injured when their bus, reportedly attacked by terrorists, plunged into a gorge in Jammu & Kashmir’s Reasi district.

At least ten people died and over 30 were injured when a bus carrying pilgrims to a temple plunged into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district today after coming under fire by rebels, ANI reported

Modi, 73, was administered the oath of office by India's President Droupadi Murmu at a ceremony at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi

The West Bengal CID, probing the murder of Bangladesh MP Md Anwarul Azim, today recovered bones, suspected to be those of the lawmaker, from the bank of a canal in the Kashipur area of North 24 Parganas district, a senior officer said

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will be present at today's swearing-in ceremony for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reports NDTV

Once shunned and now eagerly courted by the West, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has steered his country away from its secular traditions and towards the Hindu-first politics he has championed for decades

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take the oath of office on Sunday for a third term in power alongside coalition allies after his party failed to win a parliamentary majority

North Korea has resumed sending balloons carrying trash over the border to South Korea, officials and news reports said on Sunday, a week after it vowed to continue if anti-North Korea leaflets are flown from the South

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief rival Rahul Gandhi was nominated to lead India’s opposition in parliament yesterday after an election result that rescued his party from the political wilderness.

A total of 214 illegal immigrants, including 123 Bangladeshis, have been arrested by the Malaysia's Johor Immigration Department during raids on workers' settlements