Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged economic and social backing for Honduras yesterday, state media reported, in his first remarks on the Central American country since it cut ties with Taiwan and recognised Beijing instead.

A storm off India's west coast has strengthened to become a powerful cyclone and could hit India's western state of Gujarat and southern parts of Pakistan this week, the weather department said..The cyclone, named Biparjoy, is expected to make landfall on Thursday afternoon between Mandvi

A pre-trial hearing for the man accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was cancelled Monday after a suspicious object was delivered to the court, local media said

Chin, whose birth was aided by Peace Ark medics, wants to be 'envoy of friendship'

At least 25 people were killed and over 140 injured as a heavy downpour, strong winds and thunderstorms lashed the southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, toppling walls, uprooting trees and pylons, leaving many areas without power

Coastal states of India and neighbouring Pakistan were on alert yesterday after meteorologists warned that a cyclonic storm over the Arabian sea would intensify over the next 24 hours.

An Olympic wrestler yesterday criticised the pace of a police inquiry into sexual harassment accusations against the chief of India’s national wrestling body.

Two passenger planes collided on the ground at an airport in Tokyo on Saturday

Some 11 percent of Indians are diabetic, a government study found, adding that diabetes, hypertension and obesity are much more common in India than previously estimated.

Fresh violence in India’s Manipur state has claimed at least three lives, including of a woman. Two others were injured in the attack, by suspected insurgents in Khoken village yesterday, Army sources said.

China warned the United States yesterday against “interfering in Cuba’s internal affairs”, in response to reports that Beijing was planning to set up a spy base on the island just off American shores.

India's foreign minister on Thursday hit out at Canada for allowing a float in a parade depicting the 1984 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards, perceived to be glorification of violence by Sikh separatists.

India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar yesterday played down the controversy over the mural of "Akhand Bharat" (undivided India) installed in the new parliament building, saying "it is not a big political issue"

An explosion inside a mosque in northern Afghanistan yesterday killed at least 11 people during the funeral of the Taliban’s provincial deputy governor, who died in an attack earlier this week, officials said.

India’s foreign minister yesterday hit out at Canada for allowing a float in a parade depicting the 1984 assassination of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards, perceived to be glorification of violence by Sikh separatists.

An explosion took place inside a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least eleven people during the funeral of the Taliban's provincial deputy governor who died in an attack earlier this week, officials said

India successfully flight-tested its new generation ballistic missile "Agni Prime" last night at APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Bay of Bengal coast of Odisha ahead of the weapon's induction in the armed forces..This was the first night launch conducted by the users after three successful d

Myanmar lawyers defending political detainees in junta-run courts are being harassed and even jailed by military authorities, Human Rights Watch said today, warning that intimidation was forcing many to stop taking cases

Indian security forces stepped up operations to prevent further violence in Manipur state yesterday after a seven-year-old boy, his mother and a relative were burnt alive when a crowd set fire to an ambulance ferrying them to a hospital.

Air India said yesterday it had sent a relief airplane after a jet from New Delhi to San Francisco had to land in eastern Russia with an engine problem.