US Secretary of State John Kerry ended a visit to Sri Lanka yesterday after pledging support for minority Tamils following decades of

A United Nations Security Council (UNSC) committee has assured India that it will take up the issue of Mumbai terror attack

The Saudi-led coalition bombing rebels in Yemen has been using US-supplied cluster munitions in its air campaign, Human Rights

In a strange turn of events, a cow was issued an admit card by authorities to write a professional entrance examination next week here.

The Indian capital's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has been adjudged the world's best airport for the year 2014, under the

Eleven people died when a bus carrying a wedding party caught fire after hitting high-voltage power lines in southern Pakistan yesterday,

Maldives authorities have detained 175 supporters of jailed former president Mohamed Nasheed for two weeks, according to court

Pakistani air strikes on Saturday kills at least 44 militants in the country's lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, the military said, part of a massive operation against the Taliban.

A 105-year-old man has been pulled out alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Central Nepal eight days after the devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck the country.

A brown cow gets an admit card issued by authorities on her name to write a professional entrance examination next week in Srinagar, India

The Saudi-led coalition carrying out air strikes in Yemen has used US-supplied cluster bombs banned by much of the world, a rights group has said.

Nepal's only international airport has banned larger aircraft carrying aid from landing because of concerns over its runway.

Nearly 3,700 migrants rescued in several operations in the Mediterranean Sea, Italian coastguard says

A UNSC committee assures India that it will take up the issue of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi at its next meeting.

Family members have arrived at Kensington Palace to visit the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's new baby daughter.

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad declares a state of emergency due to a rapidly expanding avian flu outbreak, saying the entire state was at risk from the spread of the disease.

With reports emanating from New Delhi that the BJP-government is keen to exclude Assam from implementation of LBA with Bangladesh, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi requests Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to take such a decision.

Nepali police pull out bodies of 50 people, including some foreign trekkers, from an avalanche-hit area, as death toll from devastating earthquake climbs to over 7,000.

Several hundred Yazidi captives are killed in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants west of Mosul, Yazidi and Iraqi officials say. A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party said 300 captives were killed on Friday in Tal Afar near the city.

Villagers may soon lead authorities to another traffickers' jungle camp in southern Thailand holding even more bodies than the 26 uncovered in the first after two days of digging. Yesterday, Thai authorities found 32 graves suspected to be of trafficked victims from Myanmar and Bangladesh in an abandoned jungle camp.