At least 16 people are killed and 30 wounded in a bomb blast at a fruit market in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, officials tell AFP.

China yesterday defended an exit ban imposed on a human rights lawyer as lawful after the United States urged Beijing to let him travel to receive a US fellowship.

Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a Japanese F-35 stealth fighter that crashed over the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan, but the pilot remains missing, authorities say.

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) says that there is “irrefutable evidence” that Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman downed a Pakistani F-16 with his MiG 21 Bison aircraft in a dogfight on 27 February.

Did Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi break election rules by addressing the nation on an anti-satellite test recently? Is it right to have a channel dedicated to the leader? Can the country's armed forces be called "Modi's soldiers"?

Thailand's first general election since a 2014 army coup has been touted by the ruling military junta as a return to democratic rule, but

There would be 117 all-women polling stations with women polling officials and security staff for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the north

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi yesterday claimed his government had reliable intelligence that India was planning

Five sanitation workers, all from the lowest rung of India's caste system, were chosen in late February to meet a very important guest:

BJP on Saturday dropped nine more of its sitting MPs, disregarding resistance from influential satraps and dramatic protests of the

The former Maldives president yesterday vowed sweeping reforms and an end to government corruption after leading his party to a

Pakistan will release 360 Indian prisoners this month, the foreign office said on Friday, as the nuclear-armed neighbours scale back from

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan blamed India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for "whipping up war hysteria" over claims that

Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha yesterday officially joined the Congress. As he bid a farewell to the BJP, with which he has

The first vote for the Lok Sabha elections 2019 has been cast from Arunachal Pradesh by DIG Sudhakar Natarajan, head of ATS Indo-

The transfer of four top West Bengal police officers ordered by the Election Commission days before national polls has triggered an ugly

The Maldives yesterday held its first parliamentary election since former strongman leader Abdulla Yameen was forced to stand down,

The telegenic leader of an anti-junta political party who rose to prominence in Thailand's election last month was charged with sedition

Every year in the spring, hundreds of aspiring Everest climbers from all over the world arrive in Nepal, hoping to conquer the mountain.