At least 14 suspected Maoist guerillas were killed yesterday in a gunfight in India's western state of Maharashtra, police said, yet another

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China later this week for an informal meeting with President Xi Jinping, as efforts at

School students are warned against cyberbullying, in the recent safety guidelines published by Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan.

​A suicide bomber strIkes a voter registration center in the Afghan capital, killing at least 48 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

Two dragon boats practicing to race on a river in China overturns and 17 people drowns, the official Xinhua news agency reports.

A US push to change the Iran nuclear deal was sending a “very dangerous message” that countries should never negotiate with Washington, Iran’s foreign minister warns as US and North Korean leaders prepare to meet for denuclearization talks.

Commonwealth countries have unanimously committed to take action on cybersecurity between now and 2020. In a major announcement at the

Not in the slightest. Kim explicitly said that the possession of nuclear weapons was "the firm guarantee by which our descendants can

Kathmandu airport was closed after a Malaysian jet with 139 people on board aborted its takeoff and skidded off the runway, officials say.

An Indian man missing for 40 years has had an emotional reunion with his family after a YouTube video of him singing a popular Bollywood song went viral.

North Korea has expressed its commitment to "complete denuclearisation" of the Korean peninsula and is not seeking conditions, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said yesterday, as the United States vowed to maintain "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang.

The top bureaucrat at Japan's finance ministry quits following allegations he sexually harassed female reporters, saying he wanted to clear his name.

India launched fast-track courts and a tougher rape law that included the death penalty after a gruesome assault on a young woman shocked the country in 2012, but crime statistics indicate the situation has got worse, not better, since then.

China has a found a novel way to tackle its massive air pollution problem: Putting up a giant air purifier the size of an industrial

Demanding stringent laws and the death penalty for rapists, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal continues her indefinite hunger strike for the fourth day.

Myanmar's president yesterday announced pardons for more than 8,500 prisoners, including three dozen jailed in political cases, as part

A Japanese firm is poised to carry out what it hailed as the world's first experiment to test for cancer using urine samples, which would

As India's rape epidemic gets worse by the year, critics have pointed fingers at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for not

International investigators yesterday entered a Syrian town hit by an alleged chemical attack, after days of delay and warnings by

A bomb that exploded outside an Indian diplomatic post in southern Nepal caused damage and drew attention for being a rare attack on