Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on July 8 and 9, the Kremlin said yesterday, in his first trip to the country since Moscow launched its military offensive in Ukraine.

Myanmar’s Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run up to “genocidal violence” eight years ago against the persecuted Rohingya minority, a UN expert warned yesterday.

Six persons, including two women, have been arrested in connection with the stampede that resulted in 121 deaths during a religious congregation in India's Uttar Pradesh state, Inspector General of Police Shalabh Mathur of Aligarh Range said today

Myanmar's Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run up to "genocidal violence" eight years ago against the persecuted Rohingya minority, a UN expert warned today

Clashes broke out near a regional military command in northern Myanmar yesterday, residents and local media said, in what appeared to be a widening offensive against junta troops.

Former police constable-turned-preacher Bhole Baba built an immense following among poor and marginalised Indians before his latest sermon ended in a stampede that killed 121 of his followers

India today sounded a nationwide alert following some reported cases of Zika virus, an aedes mosquito-borne viral disease like dengue and chikungunya, from Maharashtra, stressing the need for taking particular care of pregnant women

The death toll in the stampede at a religious congregation in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's Hathras has risen to 121, including seven children, the Office of the state Relief Commissioner said today

At least 116 people were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, authorities said, in one of the worst such tragedies in recent years

At least 116 people, many of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in north India yesterday, authorities said, in one of the country’s worst such tragedies in years.

Hindenburg Research has denied allegations by India’s securities regulator that it colluded with a US asset manager to use non-public information to set up a short bet against Adani Group last year, which if proven would breach the country’s rules.

According to Aligarh range Inspector General of Police Shalabh Mathur, 116 people have so far perished in the incident

North Korea successfully tested a new tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying a super-large warhead, state media said Tuesday, with analysts suggesting the weapon could be nuclear-capable

Myanmar arrested four executives of supermarket chains, including an official of a Japanese joint venture, for selling rice at inflated prices, state media said yesterday, as the war-torn country’s ruling junta struggles to stabilise its economy.

India replaced colonial-era criminal laws with new legislation yesterday, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government said would make the country more just, but the opposition said risked throwing the criminal justice system into disarray.

It’s less furry than a traditional companion, but a six-legged Chinese robot “guide dog” could one day help vision impaired people live more independently, according to its research development team in Shanghai.

India today implemented an overhaul of colonial-era criminal laws, praised as a "watershed" movement by the top judge but which critics said could worsen an already glacially slow pace of justice

The death toll from this week’s sudden heavy rain has climbed to 11 in New Delhi, including four citizens who drowned in submerged underpasses, the Times of India reported, while flight operations stuttered in the Indian capital.

Myanmar’s central bank denied a UN report that the military government can still access money and weapons for its war against anti-coup forces, saying financial institutions under bank’s supervision followed prescribed procedures.

An Argentine prosecutor petitioned to an Argentine Court seeking multiple arrest warrants against the perpetrators of Rohingya genocide in Rakhine State