Mayawati will meet with Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi today in what is seen as a significant outreach

Indian Polls Ends

Turkey is committed to working with Bangladesh in regional and international levels to bring an end to the Rohingya crisis that has been affecting Bangladesh in socio-economic, environmental and even diplomatic fronts.

A prototype of Japan's next-generation Shinkansen bullet train, set to be the fastest train on wheels when it enters service, reached speeds of 320 kilometres (198 miles) per hour on a test run.

China slams a decision by the US government to put telecom equipment giant Huawei on a blacklist and says it will take steps to protect its companies, in a further test of ties as the economic heavyweights clash over trade.

A UN official has urges Myanmar to grant aid workers “predictable, sustained access” to Rakhine state, where fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced nearly 33,000 people since late last year, saying lack of aid has cost lives.

Malaysians and the rest of the world were shocked by the story of a teenage girl who is said to have taken her own life after a poll she ran on Instagram encouraged her to do so.

The Philippines is withdrawing top diplomats from Canada after Ottawa missed a deadline to take back 69 shipping containers full of trash, the latest move in a long-running row stoked by threats from Manila's outspoken president.

Emerging jobs related to the digital economy have been and are expected to continue growing quickly in China as digital technology is applied in more fields, says a senior executive from LinkedIn.

Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a local man was beaten in the town of Chilaw on Sri Lanka’s west coast in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources tell Reuters.

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a Saudi-educated scholar for what they claim are links with Zahran Hashim, the suspected ringleader of the Easter Sunday bombings, throwing a spotlight on the rising influence of Salafi-Wahhabi Islam on the island's Muslims.

More than 100 inmates escape from an Indonesian jail on Sumatra island, police say, in the latest breakout to hit the country's creaking prison system.

Facebook is suing South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave to make sure it isn't breaking the leading social network's rules, the US company says.

China and the United States have agreed to hold more trade talks in Beijing, Vice Premier Liu He says, as US President Donald Trump ordered his trade chief to begin the process of imposing tariffs on all remaining imports from China.

All 33 passengers and crew members are injured more or less as an aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines skidded off the runway of Yangon International Airport in Myanmar.

A car ploughed into a group of kindergarten children in western Japan's Shiga region, killing two toddlers and injuring others, police say.

A suicide blast at one of Pakistan's oldest and most popular Sufi shrines killed at least 10 people and wounded 24 in the eastern city of Lahore, police say, in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.

As the six-week bail period handed to ousted Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif for medical treatment expires, the PML-N has decided to organise a procession to accompany him as he returns to Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday said a panel of its judges had dismissed a complaint of sexual harassment made against Chief Justice

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has paid tribute to Tipu Sultan, praising the 18th century ruler of Mysore for preferring to die for