Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has offered to hold “conditional negotiations” with the powerful military as he serves a year into a jail term that he said he was given on trumped up charges designed to keep him out of power.

India’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah today criticized the Kerala government for not heeding early warnings about a potential natural calamity in Wayanad district due to heavy rains

The death count in the deadly landslides in India's Kerala galloped to 158 as military personnel today intensified search and rescue operations, officials said

Landslides swept through tea estates and villages in southern India’s Kerala yesterday, killing at least 123 people while they slept as unexpected heavy rain collapsed hillsides and triggered torrents of mud, water and tumbling boulders.

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said yesterday “a threat from China to any country is a threat to the world”, emphasizing to lawmakers of more than 20 countries that global democracies must unite against “authoritarian expansion”.

The death toll rose to 57 in the deadly landslides triggered by heavy rains in hilly Wayanad district of India's Kerala today, PTI reported quoting state government sources.

A series of massive landslides set off by incessant heavy rains left at least 45 people, many of them in their sleep, dead in the hilly areas in Wayanad district of India’s Kerala's today, officials said

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talked extensively with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi about Taiwan yesterday and raised concerns about Beijing’s recent “provocative actions”, a senior US State Department official said.

Foreign ministers of the Southeast Asian regional bloc Asean yesterday condemned violence against civilians in the military-ruled Myanmar and urged all parties to end hostilities and follow an agreed peace plan.

A vehicle crashed into pedestrians in a major city in central China early yesterday, killing eight people and injuring five, authorities said, without specifying whether the act was intentional or not.

China will “respond resolutely” to any violation by the Philippines of a recent deal to calm tensions between the two countries in the South China Sea, its top diplomat told his Filipino counterpart, Beijing said yesterday.

A gunfight in Kashmir killed the eleventh Indian soldier to die in the restive Himalayan territory this month, India’s military said yesterday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said her recent remarks about students agitation and violence in Bangladesh were "distorted" by a certain section of people" in that country

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today walked out of a crucial meeting of the Indian government's policy think-tank Niti Aayog in New Delhi saying she was stopped from speaking "after just five minutes"

Sri Lanka will hold presidential elections on September 21, a government notice said yesterday, setting the date for a crucial vote expected to determine the future of reforms in the South Asian nation weathering its worst financial crisis in decades.

UNESCO declared India's Moidams, the vaulted mound burial sites of the royal Ahom dynasty in Assam, as the country's 43rd World Heritage Site today

Sri Lanka's first presidential elections since an unprecedented economic crisis spurred widespread unrest will be held in September, the election commission said Friday

The union government of India has the sole prerogative when it comes to matters of foreign affairs, said a spokesperson of its external affairs ministry acknowledging Dhaka’s note issued after Mamata Banerjee’s remarks.

A Cambodian court fined an opposition leader about $1.5 million yesterday for defaming the ruling party by claiming democracy had regressed since the former prime minister’s son took power last year.

A marine tanker carrying industrial fuel sank in rough seas off the Philippines yesterday, causing a large oil spill as coast guard rescuers search for a missing crew member, officials said.