Temperatures in India's capital soared to a record-high 49.9 degrees Celsius (121.8 Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, the government's weather bureau said

Hong Kong national security police arrested six people across the city yesterday under a new security law for alleged seditious intent, including a pro-democracy barrister already behind bars.

Using a long-handled net, Ronnel Narvas scoops up discarded plastic soft drink bottles, shopping bags and palm-sized sachets as he wades through a foul-smelling tributary in the Philippine capital Manila.

Taiwan’s parliament passed a package of controversial bills yesterday to expand its power as thousands of disapproving protesters rallied outside and chanted “defend democracy”.

At least 10 people have been killed and several others remain missing after a stone quarry collapsed in north eastern Indian state Mizoram's Aizawl district this morning

Myanmar’s Rohingya community is once again under threat of attacks and displacement as fighting between a powerful ethnic army and the country’s ruling junta escalates in the western state of Rakhine, according to the UN and aid agencies.

Courts in Thailand yesterday handed jail terms to an activist musician who set fire to a portrait of the king and to an opposition lawmaker for insulting the monarchy, their lawyers said.

The top leaders of the opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc are scheduled to convene in New Delhi on June 1 to assess their performance in the recently held Lok Sabha elections and strategize for the future.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch team, which is in Kolkata to probe the murder of MP Anwarul Azim Anar, has visited Bagjola canal in Polerhat near Kolkata

Indian police said Monday they had arrested a doctor and the owner of an unlicensed hospital where six newborn babies died in a fire in a crowded ward without fire exits

The death toll from a game zone fire in India’s Rajkot rose to 33, a top local official said yesterday, as rescuers scoured the site the morning after the blaze.

A three-member team of detective branch of DMP led by its additional commissioner Harun-Or-Rashid have reached India today to investigate the murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata on May 13

Seven newborn babies died in a major fire that broke out at a children's hospital in India's East Delhi's Vivek Vihar area last night

Owner, manager detained

Indian voters braved temperatures of nearly 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in parts of the country as they headed to polling stations in the penultimate phase of the world’s largest election yesterday.

Fourty-three people who were on board a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence remain hospitalised in Bangkok four days after the emergency, a hospital in the Thai capital said yesterday.

China has ended two days of military drills around Taiwan that saw jets loaded with live munitions and warships practise seizing and isolating the self-ruled island.

At least 20 people, including children, were killed in a massive fire that raged in a gaming zone teeming with people enjoying a summer vacation outing in Gujarat’s Rajkot city yesterday.

Two top rivals of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who accuse his government of targeting them in unjustified criminal probes cast their votes in New Delhi yesterday as the country’s six-week election resumed.

Rescue operations ongoing