US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday returned to China on his second visit in a year, as the United States ramps up pressure on its rival over its support for Russia while also seeking to manage tensions with Beijing.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday claimed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had panicked after seeing the Congress’ “revolutionary” manifesto. “So did you like the Congress manifesto? You must have seen that the Prime Minister has panicked. It is a revolutionary manifesto,” Gandhi said while speaking at Social Justice conclave organised by the Congress in New Delhi.

The Taliban government has entered its first talks with the United Nations, donors and non-governmental organisations over the impact of climate change in Afghanistan, organisers said Wednesday

Thai authorities issued an extreme heat warning for Bangkok on Wednesday, urging people to stay indoors for their own safety as temperatures soared

A Korean woman was persuaded to invest 70 million won ($50,770) after seeing a deepfake video of what appeared to be Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, according to local reports on Tuesday

A Delhi court yesterday extended the pre-trial detention of Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal until May 7 in a corruption case, the legal news website Live Law reported.

Amid a debate on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks that “Congress wants to snatch women’s Mangalsutra,” the Prime Minister reiterated yesterday that he had put the truth before the country that Congress is hatching a deep conspiracy to snatch your property and distribute it to its special people.

The Maldives will press on with Chinese-backed construction and evict Indian troops from the strategically placed atoll nation, President Mohamed Muizzu’s office said yesterday, two days after his party’s stunning parliamentary victory.

Myanmar junta troops have moved back into a vital border town they were ousted from by an alliance of ethnic rebels and anti-junta fighters this month, military sources told AFP yesterday.

Asia was the world’s most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023, the United Nations said yesterday, with floods and storms the chief cause of casualties and economic losses.

At least 89 percent of 2,431 glacial lakes in the Himalayas that were identified in 2016-17 have notably expanded since 1984, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a report on Monday.

Indian manufacturer Everest Food Products said on Tuesday its spices were safe for consumption after Singapore and Hong Kong flagged allegedly high levels of a cancer-causing pesticide in a product

Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023, the United Nations said today, with floods and storms the chief cause of casualties and economic losses

Two Malaysian military helicopters collided and crashed killing all 10 naval flight crew during a training session on Tuesday, the country's rescue agency said

Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes overnight and into Tuesday that left buildings swaying, with the government saying they were aftershocks from a huge deadly quake that hit the island more than two weeks ago

China said yesterday it would seek to strengthen ties with the Maldives, after pro-Beijing President Mohamed Muizzu’s party celebrated a landslide win in parliamentary polls in the strategic Indian Ocean nation.

In fake videos that have gone viral online, two of India’s A-lister Bollywood actors are seen criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asking people to vote for the opposition Congress party in the country’s ongoing general election.

India’s main opposition Congress party yesterday petitioned the Election Commission to act against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making what it said were “deeply objectionable” comments about Muslims that violated election laws.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today repeated that the opposition party and the opposition INDIA bloc were "eyeing people's earnings and property"

Declares recruitment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff null and void