India's top court yesterday criticised the government for failing to set up a disaster fund to help drought-hit farmers

Hundreds of villagers clashed with police in restive Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday after three armed militants

China signed an agreement at the United Nations on Friday to begin unlocking a $1 billion fund to support the world

Nepal has recalled its ambassador to India and cancelled an upcoming visit by its president to New Delhi, officials

Sri Lanka's parliament yesterday voted unanimously to suspend two of its members for one week with immediate effect over their

Pakistani police yesterday arrested 15 members of a tribal council accused of ordering the burning alive of a young girl for

India's killer heatwave is leaving the country reeling from the worst drought in decades and a rural population

Nepal's embattled Prime Minister K P Oli will not resign after the main Maoist party that props up his fragile coalition said

China's military will carry out more military exercises in the South China Sea this month involving advanced warships and

China will not allow chaos and war to break out on the Korean peninsula, which would be to no one's advantage,

Exiled Tibetans have reelected Lobsang Sangay as their leader, the election commission said yesterday, five years after

The worst drought in decades across several states in India is forcing tens of thousands of people to migrate from

Amid growing tension between him and the powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif, Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif on

The Pakistani Taliban have claimed the killing of a provincial minister for minority affairs who was shot dead in a

There is "no reason to believe" that Prince's death was suicide, the sheriff of the Minnesota county where the singer had

Pakistan's army has fired six senior officers over corruption charges, senior military sources told AFP yesterday, in a

Chinese state media unveiled a new title for President Xi Jinping calling him "commander in chief" of the country's

Indonesia fears piracy on a busy shipping route along its maritime border with the Philippines could hit levels seen

The Maldives government has said it would allow jailed leaders of rival parties to take part in talks on resolving the

Trash-talking Philippine presidential favourite Rodrigo Duterte has warned he is prepared to cut diplomatic ties with the United