1951: First Census of Independent India conducted. First NRC compiled based on Census

North Korea yesterday lashed out at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his comments on Pyongyang’s “rogue behaviour” and

“There is a thin line between nationalism and xenophobia,” Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted, quoting Rabindranath Tagore, ahead

Thousands march in a meandering tour of downtown Hong Kong in the pouring rain, the latest in a series of pro-democracy protests that have plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades.

Malaysia’s acting high commissioner to Bangladesh has said his country, which is already enjoying a strong bilateral relation with Bangladesh, wants to further improve it through trade and tourism as the Southeast Asian country strives to become a high-income country while Bangladesh moves towards becoming a middle-income nation.

Around the world, mosquitoes are winning their war of attrition. With the help from a tiny bacterium, scientists are fighting back.

Stone-throwing protesters in Indian Kashmir killed a driver of what they thought was a military truck, police said yesterday, as a crippling

2019 is one of the worst years for dengue outbreaks. Scientists and officials looking for new ways to use data to predict the deadly

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday addressed the nation on the Kashmir issue and the government’s future strategy on the

Indonesia will move its capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan.

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s top Special Protection Group (SPG) security will be withdrawn. He will have Central

2019 is one of the worst years for dengue outbreaks. Scientists and officials are looking for new ways to use data to predict the deadly disease.

A Hong Kong police officer fired at least one gunshot yesterday, the first time a live round has been used during three months of

Indian Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, whose brother Rahul Gandhi was turned away from Srinagar airport on Saturday, ripped into

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast yesterday, the South Korean military said, the latest in a series of launches in recent weeks amid stalled denuclearisation talks.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with other opposition leaders, who had flown to Jammu and Kashmir, are sent back to Delhi from the Srinagar airport.

North Korea’s top diplomat said yesterday that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was a “diehard toxin” who only complicates denuclearisation talks and North Korea was ready for both dialogue and standoff.

South Korea yesterday said it will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a decision that could further escalate a dispute over history and trade and undercut security cooperation on North Korea.

Sexual violence committed by Myanmar troops against Rohingya women and girls in 2017 was an indication of the military's genocidal intent to destroy the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, United Nations investigators concluded in a report release.

Disgraced Cardinal George Pell lost his appeal against child sex abuse convictions yesterday, prompting relief from victims who fought to