India's first lunar probe - Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft - which was considered lost is still orbiting the moon, NASA scientists have discovered. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after it was launched on October 22, 2008.

At least 11 para-military personnel were killed and five others wounded when armed Maoists attacked them in a dense forest in India’s Chhattisgarh state, police say.

Indian border guards killed a Nepali citizen over a local dispute in a rare shooting at the border, Nepal's government said, prompting

The emergence of Harakah al Yaqin, the first Rohingya Muslim insurgent group to organise in Myanmar in decades, signals a dangerous new phase in a crisis that is increasingly attracting the attention of extremists in Pakistan and the Middle East.

The Maldives government on Wednesday denied it was selling a cluster of small islands to Saudi Arabia, following opposition protests

A teenage boy and two militants were killed in a firefight with government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday that brought

Indian doctors yesterday said that an Egyptian who is believed to be the world's heaviest woman had successfully undergone weight-loss

Thousands of people have fled clashes between the Myanmar military and ethnic rebels along the border with China, a Chinese official says.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requests the Indonesian government to play a role in sending back the Myanmar refugees from Bangladesh.

At least 30 people die in clashes between ethnic rebels and Myanmar security forces in a restive area along the border with China.

India’s national airline claims to have set a new record with the first round-the-world flight staffed entirely by women.

The Central government is considering more steps to curb cash transactions even as a few banks have already started imposing charges after limited transactions. The government is now considering imposing a cap on cash holding limit as suggested by the SIT.

Onetime discarded coach, Chandika Hathurusingha has returned to the land that evicted him from a possible coaching job this time fully armed with a rising band of cricketers and waiting to settle an old score.

The number of students studying in China from countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road has increased greatly under a series of preferential policies, education officials say.

A tightly-guarded Malaysian court yesterday charged two women with murdering the estranged half-brother of North

The father of a US Navy SEAL killed in a raid in Yemen criticized President Donald Trump's decision to give the go-ahead and

South Korea's president expressed "belated regret" yesterday over the scandal that triggered her impeachment, as

The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has called for urgent action by the government there to end the suffering of the Rohingya population.

Gunmen open fire on a prison bus in Colombo killing five prisoners and two warders on their way to court in what was believed to be a gangland dispute, officials say.

Sixteen people were killed and more than 50 injured when a truck carrying churchgoers overturned in a hilly region of northeast India