Thousands of people flee heavy fighting on Myanmar's northern border with China overnight, activists say.

Myanmar’s special envoy and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Tin arrives in Dhaka to discuss bilateral issues with special focus on Rohingya crisis.

Pakistan yesterday test-fired its first submarine-launched cruise missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and giving the country a

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday overturned a 26-year-old decree that required top bureaucrats to wear a suit and tie,

Several unidentified militants attack a camp housing road construction workers in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, killing three labourers before fleeing.

Nepal's Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the powerful head of the anti-corruption commission was not fit to hold the position and

The rupee is expected to fall further against the US dollar this year to a record low, hit by rising global bond yields and an economic blow from New Delhi's dramatic currency crackdown launched two months ago, a Reuters poll finds.

A new book by a former senior officer of Indian army claims that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not die in a plane crash but during interrogation and torture by the British at a prison in the former Soviet Union.

United Nations says its human rights envoy for Myanmar will probe escalating violence in the country, including a military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.

Police arrest four men in India's technology hub of Bengaluru over a video recording of a New Year attack on a woman that has sparked a national public debate about women's safety.

India will launch a rocket carrying 103 satellites next month in a record single mission, a report says, as its famously frugal space agency looks to zoom ahead in the commercial space race.

Pakistani police say they arrested 150 hardline Muslim activists as they tried to rally in support of the country's tough blasphemy law on the anniversary of a provincial governor's assassination over his call to reform the statute.

Indonesia has suspended military cooperation with Australia after teaching materials deemed offensive to Jakarta were

Suspected Muslim rebels staged the Philippines' biggest jailbreak yesterday when they stormed a dilapidated jail in the

Indian police rescue nearly 200 children, most of them under the age of 14, who has been found working in a brick kiln in the southern state of Telangana in one of the biggest operations in the region, officials say.

A commission probing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State denies security forces had abused Rohingya, days after a video emerged showing police beating civilians from Muslim minority.

Myanmar's government says it has detained several police officers over a video apparently showing Rohingya civilians being beaten, a rare admission that authorities may have carried out abuses against the Muslim minority.

The Supreme Court of India outlaws seeking votes in the name of religion, caste, race, community or language. The landmark judgment comes ahead of crucial assembly elections in five states where faith and caste are top poll issues.

North Korea is in the "final stages" of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile, leader Kim Jong-Un said

Indians yesterday rushed to change their bank notes before a deadline to deposit invalid rupee notes closed, as Prime Minister Modi