Day-to-day life was partially affected in India's West Bengal today during a 12-hour shutdown called by BJP protesting the police action against demonstrators during a march to the state secretariat yesterday

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he supports a swift end to the grinding conflict in Ukraine after visiting the war-hit country.

Pakistani forces hunted separatist militants Tuesday who killed dozens when they pulled passengers off buses, blew up a bridge and stormed a hotel a day earlier.

The persecuted and stateless Rohingya minority is caught in a new violent crackdown in Myanmar, with children among those killed, two reports from influential expert groups warned today.

Vietnam's national assembly will elect the country's new president in October, state media said today, the latest top-level change during an unusually turbulent period for the communist state.

Malaysia has charged opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin with sedition for allegedly insulting the country's former king, his lawyer said on Tuesday

At least 73 people were killed in Pakistan’s province of Balochistan when separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and highways and security forces launched retaliatory operations, officials said yesterday.

Experts here say all barrage gates usually kept open during monsoon

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party today pulled up its lawmaker and Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut over her remarks linking farmers' protest to the unrest in Bangladesh

Flash floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in Thailand have killed 22 people in recent days, disaster officials said today, as they warned of further sudden flooding this week.

Separatist gunmen shot and killed at least 22 people in southwest Pakistan today in an attack that singled out ethnic Punjabis, government officials said.

The Philippines and China clashed in disputed waters of the South China Sea yesterday over what Manila said was a resupply mission for fishermen, the latest in a series of sea and air confrontations in the strategic waterway.

At least 34 people were killed in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan today, including 12 pilgrims who had been trying to reach Iran, rescue officials said.

India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today searched the residences of RG Kar Medical College's former principal Sandip Ghosh and 14 others over alleged financial irregularities.

A bomb blast in southwestern Pakistan killed two children and injured 16 people yesterday, police officials said.

With months until crunch talks on the world’s first binding treaty on plastic pollution, experts are meeting in Bangkok to discuss financing options and problematic plastics.

Thailand has postponed its hosting of next month’s Bimstec summit of the leaders of seven mostly South Asian countries until after a new administration is formed, its foreign ministry said yesterday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held his first conversation with new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday, emphasising that China hopes to achieve “common wins” with the United Kingdom, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

The United Nations said yesterday it fears a repeat of the 2017 atrocities committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, warning a human tragedy was unfolding in Rakhine State.

Bankrupt Sri Lanka will offer hefty salary increases and higher pensions to civil servants, President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office said yesterday just weeks before September 21 polls in which he is seeking re-election.