Indian police said yesterday a Pakistan-based Islamist militant group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks was responsible for last month's killing of eight Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir.

Thousands of protesters clashed with government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir Saturday after three local rebels were killed in a firefight with troops, police said, with tensions already high following the death of a popular militant commander this week.

India's lawmakers yesterday elected a veteran leader from the ruling right-wing party as the country's next vice-president, boosting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political standing.

Suspected insurgents kill at least six members of a Buddhist ethnic minority in western Myanmar, the government and regional sources say, amid spiralling violence in troubled Rakhine state.

Asia’s demographics by 2024 will look very different as India’s population is all set to surpass that of China. Although fertility is declining across the region, Asian populations will continue to grow, increasing pressure on the region’s natural resources.

Two Indian soldiers and two rebels were killed in armed clashes yesterday, officials said, in another day of bloodshed in Kashmir where

Venturing outdoors may become deadly across wide swaths of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan by the end of the century as climate change drives heat and humidity to new extremes, according to a new study.

Thousands of Indian police and troops enforced a lockdown in parts of Kashmir, fearing violent reprisals a day after a top militant

Pakistan's new Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi began his first full day in office yesterday by meeting his ousted former boss Nawaz

Bangladesh signed an agreement with Cambodia to purchase 1 million tonnes of rice within the next five years, officials say.

After the reported outbreaks of H5N1 and H1N1 virus, schools located within a 10-km radius of the infected area in Dawei Township of Myanmar from August 1 to 7 have been ordered closed.

A suicide bomber and a gunman kill at least 29 people and wounded 63 at a packed Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's main western city of Herat , the latest attack to highlight the country's deteriorating security situation.

Pakistani lawmakers elect former petroleum minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the country's new prime minister, replacing ousted veteran leader Nawaz Sharif.

Starting from today, the Petrapole-Benapole Integrated Check Post (ICP) between India and Bangladesh will function round-the-clock.

Following the removal of its chief Nawaz Sharif as prime minister, an­other problem has arisen for the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) as the interim premier-in-waiting, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, is also facing a Rs220 billion corruption inquiry being carried out by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

Nawaz Sharif, still smarting from the shock disqualification by the Supreme Court for dishonesty, wants to know if everyone else in

Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain has called a session of the national assembly on August 1 for the election of an interim prime minister, DawnNews reports.

Nawaz Sharif, who was ousted from office for the third time on July 28, addresses his party's leadership, expressing disbelief at the grounds for his dismissal but resolving that he will continue to struggle for the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law in the country.

History was repeated on Friday morning. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was sent home after the Supreme Court disqualified him under the Constitution’s Article 62(1)(f) for misdeclaring his assets when he was just 10 months away from completing his five-year tenure in office.

Another elected prime minister has been "sent home", Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz said yesterday but asserted that her father's disqualification by the Supreme Court would not deter him from staging a comeback.