Not long ago, Ferishta Salihi and her family had enough for a decent life. Her husband was working and earned a good salary. She could send several of her daughters to private schools.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told leaders of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit on Monday that Beijing would not "bully" its smaller regional neighbours amid rising tension over the South China Sea.

An Indian man declared dead after a road accident shocked his relatives when they found him still breathing despite a night in the freezer of a hospital morgue.

Farmers at the Delhi borders have said that say their protests will continue till the formal cancellation of the three contentious farm laws, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday.

India’s Uttar Pradesh state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested two Rohingyas from Kolkata for allegedly making fake documents for Rohingya people and Bangladeshis illegally brought to India for trafficking.

Apparently unimpressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of the decision to withdraw three contentious farm laws, India’s agitating farmers today vowed to continue their protests till formal scrapping of the legislations.

Congress' Punjab unit President Navjot Singh Sidhu calling Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan his "bada bhai" (elder brother) during a pilgrimage to a key Sikh shrine in that country sparked a row -- drawing condemnation from even within his own party besides Bharatiya Janata Party.

The International Criminal Court has suspended its investigation into suspected rights abuses committed under Philippine President Rodrigo

At least 30 people are dead or missing after flash floods hit southern India, reports yesterday, with three buses washed away in one incident.

Death toll in floods caused by heavy rains in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh increased to at least 13 today.

In a surprise announcement yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would repeal agriculture laws that farmers have been protesting against for more than a year, sparking celebrations for what farmers called a hard-fought victory.

Six Armenian troops were killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan near the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region earlier this week, officials in Yerevan said yesterday.

United States climate envoy John Kerry yesterday voiced hope that Beijing and Washington would work together more closely on the climate emergency after they struck a pact to accelerate action against greenhouse gas emissions.

Myanmar security forces have arrested a former lawmaker and prominent hip-hop artist accused of masterminding a string of attacks targeting regime forces and officials, the junta said yesterday.

There may be as many as 300 vessels from China’s maritime militia patrolling the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea at any one time as Beijing continues to stake its controversial claim on the disputed waters, according to new research from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in the United States.

Electoral politics in a democracy like India is all about taking the right decision at the right time and popular perception.

When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, Zahra Joya dressed as a boy and called herself Mohammad, allowing her to circumvent the Islamist group’s ban on girls going to school.

The United Nations said yesterday it wants proof of the whereabouts of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, missing ever since she made sexual assault allegations against a former vice-premier.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have caved in to farmers' demands that he scraps laws they say threaten their livelihoods.

The Sikh community yesterday opened the doors to five gurudwaras to Muslims to offer their Friday (Juma) namaz in Gurugram (formerly Gurgaon) district, near New Delhi.