Police investigating the killing of a Sikh man at the site of an ongoing farmers’ protest in New Delhi said yesterday they had arrested a suspect from a Sikh warrior sect, after the mutilated body was found strung up on a police barricade.

Three astronauts successfully docked with China’s new space station yesterday on what is set to be Beijing’s longest crewed mission to date and the latest landmark in its drive to become a major space power.

The Islamic State group yesterday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of

In the backdrop of repeated calls by dissident senior party leaders for an organizational overhaul, India’s main opposition party Congress yesterday announced it would have election for a president between August 21 and September 20 next year as Rahul Gandhi reportedly said he would consider returning as party head.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out his Taliban worries to world leaders this week, Indian forces staged raids and battled Kashmir militants who he fears could be emboldened by the Islamists’ victory in Afghanistan.

The Taliban will announce a framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan "soon," a senior United Nations official said, after four weeks in which Afghan boys have been allowed a secondary education but girls have not.

Eleven students drowned and 10 others were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia’s West Java Province, officials said Saturday.

A spokesman for Myanmar's military government blamed "foreign intervention" for the rare exclusion of its junta leader from a regional leaders' summit later this month.

Asia accounts for the bulk of people who are undernourished around the world today, with 418 million people making up over half of the hungry mouths worldwide.

A Southeast Asia summit this month will invite a non-political representative from Myanmar, Brunei said on Saturday, sidelining the leader of the military junta in an unprecedented move for the group.

Suicide bombers attacked a Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, witnesses said, killing at least 41 people and injuring scores more.   

Bangladesh has been ranked 76th in the Global Hunger Index 2021 among 116 qualifying countries, with a score of 19.1.

A Singaporean news website often critical of the government had its licence canceled yesterday for failing to declare funding sources, with the editor slamming it as “harassment and intimidation” of independent media.

Suspected rebels killed an Indian army officer and a trooper during a manhunt in Kashmir, where 22 people have died in spiralling violence in the past two weeks, officials said yesterday.

China and Bhutan signed an MoU Thursday for what they called a “Three-step roadmap” for expediting the boundary negotiations and which according to Thimphu will provide fresh impetus to talks and can bring the negotiations to a successful conclusion acceptable to both sides.

Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, witnesses said, killing at least 41 people and injuring scores more.

The head lawyer representing Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday he had been issued a gag order by authorities in the military-ruled country.

North Korean defectors in Tokyo symbolically summoned Kim Jong Un to court yesterday over a repatriation programme they describe as “state kidnapping”.

The death toll from a storm that triggered landslides and flash floods across the Philippines has risen to at least 19, authorities said yesterday, linking the extreme rainfall to climate change.

Japan dissolved its parliament yesterday, setting the stage for an election at the end of the month that will pit new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida against unpopular opposition in a battle over who can better fix the pandemic-battered economy.