Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has gone on a sabbatical “for a few weeks” to reflect upon recent events and the future of the party that was completely wiped out in the Delhi Assembly elections capping a string of losses.

Police in the Maldives yesterday arrested former president Mohamed Nasheed under an anti-terror law for the alleged illegal detention of a judge when he was in power more than three years ago.

A top United Nations climate change official has pulled out of a key meeting in Kenya next week as Indian police investigate a sexual harassment complaint against him, officials have said.

China has expressed "strong dissatisfaction and staunch opposition" after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited a frontier area controlled by New Delhi but claimed by Beijing, state media reported.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long enjoyed close relations, but Islamabad's new-found resolve for fighting the root causes of extremism has seen the Gulf state come in for rare criticism.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday vowed to protect all religious groups after a string of attacks on churches in Delhi.

As dawn breaks over the Indian capital, a group of police women are already hard at work practising their punches, on a mission to rid the city's streets of sexual predators.

Residents who fled from conflict areas near the Myanmar and Chinese border arrive at a temporary refugee camp at a monastery in Lashio,

The death toll from swine flu in 2015 alone has soared to 585 with 100 more casualties reported across the country in since February 12, prompting the Centre to order additional stocks of medicines and diagnostic kits.

The UN has agreed to Sri Lanka's request to delay a long-awaited report into alleged atrocities committed during Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war.

Dozens of protesters marched in Yangon Wednesday against a law giving voting rights to Myanmar's temporary citizens, including hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya, as parliament's speaker referred the fiery issue to a constitutional tribunal.

The historic end of Baghdad's decade-old curfew was marred by more violence a day afterward -- highlighting the security challenges that still plague Iraq.

Thailand's toppled former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been banned from travelling overseas because graft charges carrying up to a decade in jail will be formally laid against her later this month, officials said yesterday.

Yet another train derailed yesterday as alleged blockaders removed fishplates and clips from tracks in Mirsharai of Chittagong, leaving at least 10 people injured.

Eighteen Pakistani army personnel including a Captain . were killed at noon on Sunday when a lively shell exploded at a demolition side near Nowshera, some 30 km northwest of Peshwar, capital of Pakistan's , Northwest Frontier Province, reports Xinhua.

Pakistan denied on Sunday. it had suspended transit facilities to Indians and violated a bilateral visa agreement, Reuter reports from Islamabad.

Does a journalist make a good Minister for Information? The question which might have been asked here in the past has now cropped up in Indonesia.

Police in Nepal have arrested a suspected Sri Lankan Tamil guerilla in connection with the murder of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Press Trust of India