A Chinese probe carrying samples from the far side of the Moon returned to Earth yesterday, capping a technically complex 53-day mission heralded as a world first.

India is all set to get its first leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, the lower House of parliament, in a decade as Congress tonight appointed Rahul Gandhi to that post

The West Bengal government was consulted on the renewal of the Ganges water-sharing treaty with Bangladesh, a senior official in India's jal shakti (formerly water resources) ministry said, rejecting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that her state of West Bengal was kept out of the process

South Korean investigators combed the charred wreckage of a lithium factory Tuesday to find the cause of a massive blaze that killed 23 in one of the country's worst factory disasters in years

Hundreds of multinational corporations on Tuesday urged Japan to triple its capacity to generate renewable power by 2035, as the heavily coal-dependent country updates its energy policy

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said no discussion on sharing the Teesta and Ganges waters should be held with Bangladesh without the involvement of the West Bengal government.

A first batch of 5,000 conscripts called up by Myanmar’s junta will begin duty at the end of this month, military sources told AFP yesterday, as the generals struggle to crush opposition to their coup.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday appealed to an emboldened opposition for “consensus”, as parliament opened following an election setback that forced him into a coalition government for the first time in a decade.

A fire broke out at a lithium battery manufacturing plant in South Korea on Monday, fire officials said, and Yonhap news agency reported that some 20 bodies had been found inside the factory

Indian lawmakers begin taking their oaths Monday as parliament opens after an election setback forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a coalition government for the first time in a decade

A landslide in a mountainous area of central China has left eight people dead, state media said yesterday, as parts of the country were placed on high alert for bad weather.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that the Bangladeshi-origin minority community members “overwhelmingly” voted for the Congress in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections, without considering the “developmental work done for them by the BJP-led governments at the Centre and in the state.”

The death toll from a batch of toxic illegal alcohol in India has risen to 53, media reported yesterday, as more victims in hospital succumbed to the poisonous brew.

A lawmaker of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress today said the Centre did not consult the state government before taking the decision to start negotiations with Bangladesh for the renewal of the 1996 Ganga water-sharing treaty

The death toll from a batch of toxic illegal alcohol in India has risen to 53, media reported Sunday, as more victims in hospital succumbed to the poisonous brew

West Bengal irrigation department has opted to dredge the Teesta in the upstream to reduce flood risks in downstream areas

A French-Chinese satellite blasted off Saturday on a hunt for the mightiest explosions in the universe, in a notable example of cooperation between a Western power and the Asian giant.

A US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a joint military drills aimed to better counter North Korean threats, Seoul’s navy said.

Five Pakistani soldiers were killed on Friday when a bomb detonated as their vehicle passed through the restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan, the military said

The United States and China resumed semi-official nuclear arms talks in March for the first time in five years, with Beijing’s representatives telling US counterparts that they would not resort to atomic threats over Taiwan, according to two American delegates who attended.