Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Russia yesterday, as the Indian leader treaded a fine line between maintaining a longstanding relationship with Moscow and courting closer Western ties.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Russia on Monday, as the Indian leader treaded a fine line between maintaining a longstanding relationship with Moscow and courting closer Western security ties

At least 11 people are dead and 19 more are missing after heavy rains caused a landslide near an illegal gold mine on Indonesia's central island of Sulawesi, an official said Monday

Heavy rains triggered landslides and flash floods killing at least 11 people in the last 36 hours in Nepal and blocking key highways and roads, officials said yesterday.

Two soldiers and six suspected militants were killed in two separate gun battles in Indian’s Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), police said yesterday.

The main accused in the deadly stampede at a religious congregation in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras that killed 121 people was arrested from Delhi's Najafgarh locality by a Special Operations Group of the state police, a senior police official said today

Eight people were arrested in India on Saturday for the murder of a politician who championed the rights of lower-caste Indians, police said

India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi today met family members of the 121 people killed in a stampede at a religious congregation in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras

Taiwan's defence ministry said today it had detected 36 Chinese military aircraft around the island in the previous 24 hours

Myanmar’s Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run up to “genocidal violence” eight years ago against the persecuted Rohingya minority, a UN expert warned yesterday.

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar yesterday met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Kazakhstan where the two agreed to step up talks to resolve issues along their border, New Delhi said in a statement.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on July 8 and 9, the Kremlin said yesterday, in his first trip to the country since Moscow launched its military offensive in Ukraine.

Six persons, including two women, have been arrested in connection with the stampede that resulted in 121 deaths during a religious congregation in India's Uttar Pradesh state, Inspector General of Police Shalabh Mathur of Aligarh Range said today

Myanmar's Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run up to "genocidal violence" eight years ago against the persecuted Rohingya minority, a UN expert warned today

Clashes broke out near a regional military command in northern Myanmar yesterday, residents and local media said, in what appeared to be a widening offensive against junta troops.

Former police constable-turned-preacher Bhole Baba built an immense following among poor and marginalised Indians before his latest sermon ended in a stampede that killed 121 of his followers

India today sounded a nationwide alert following some reported cases of Zika virus, an aedes mosquito-borne viral disease like dengue and chikungunya, from Maharashtra, stressing the need for taking particular care of pregnant women

The death toll in the stampede at a religious congregation in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's Hathras has risen to 121, including seven children, the Office of the state Relief Commissioner said today

At least 116 people were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, authorities said, in one of the worst such tragedies in recent years

At least 116 people, many of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in north India yesterday, authorities said, in one of the country’s worst such tragedies in years.