Election Commission spokesman said there was "a total of 837,094 registered names" of first-time voters

Relentless rain has lashed south-central Vietnam since late October

Indian counter-terrorism units raided the office of The Kashmir Times over its alleged role in a “criminal conspiracy”, police said, with the news website calling the accusations “baseless” yesterday.

Aircraft explodes upon impact

A curfew was in force yesterday in a Nepalese town following clashes between young activists and loyalists of the former ruling party that was overthrown in a deadly September uprising.

China ran a disinformation campaign to hurt sales of the French Rafale fighter jet after India used the planes in May for the first time against Chinese weapons deployed by its neighbour Pakistan, a bipartisan US commission said this month in a report that the Chinese rejected as false information.

Pakistan security forces killed 30 militants in two targeted operations near the Afghan frontier, the army said yesterday, a week after a suicide bombing killed 12 people in Islamabad.

Responds to suicide bombing killing 12 last week in Islamabad

He will meet Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus during his three-day trip

Conclave to weigh maritime security, counter-terrorism, and a regional action plan

After the 2011 tsunami and meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan shut down all of its nuclear reactors

New Delhi stays silent on Dhaka’s call for ousted PM's extradition

Many victims reportedly women and children as India sets up emergency helpline support

China and Japan's long-testy ties have spiralled further this month

India’s federal anti-terror agency said yesterday it had arrested a resident of Kashmir who it accused of conspiring with the driver of a car that exploded in Delhi last week, killing eight people and wounding at least 20 others.

93 workers accuse Mediceram of breaching labor laws

Arrestee is a resident of Kashmir

Nine people were killed and 31 injured when confiscated explosives accidentally blew up at a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said yesterday, just days after a car blast in Delhi killed a dozen people.

Air China, China Southern and China Eastern all published separate statements

More than half a million people sat for the entrance exam