Aegile Fernandez, the co-founder and director of human rights group Tenaganita and a dear name to the thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia, passed away on Tuesday afternoon.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan won a vote of confidence from parliament on Saturday in a session marked by an opposition boycott of the vote and clashes between government supporters and opposition leaders outside the parliament building.

A group of suspected militants ambushed a vehicle carrying women activists from a non-governmental organization in a former northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Monday, killing four of them and wounding the driver, police said.

India and China on Saturday each traded accusations that the other had violated their shared de facto border, an area that this week became the site of the deadliest clash in half a century between the two nuclear-armed giants.

Post-Rahul Gandhi’s exit as Congress president, an intense power struggle has begun within the party to choose his successor amidst a raging debate over whether the mantle should fall on the shoulders of a young Turk or a veteran.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi enormously dominated the 2019 Lok Sabha electoral battlefield. His landslide victory

Soon after becoming the prime minister of India for the first time five years ago, Narendra Modi had declared that the guiding light of his government would be “sabka saath, sabka vikas”. On May 25, 2019, he added two more words to that slogan: “sabka viswas”.

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi yesterday said Mahatma Gandhi is above power and politics and people like Pragya Singh Thakur are killing the soul of India and the BJP should expel her from the party.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking that India and Pakistan resume dialogue that has been suspended since 2015. In the letter addressing the PM as "Modi Sahab", Imran Khan also suggests a meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries.

India's Supreme Court yesterday reserved its judgement on a plea seeking the immediate release of five leading rights activists accused of having links with Maoists and in connection with violence during a backward caste rally.

South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) has strongly condemned the killing of journalist of Shujaat Bukhari who was shot dead in Srinagar two days ago.

Renowned senior lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir passes away at the age of 66 in Lahore. She is survived by a son and two daughters.

A class 9 student of Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district who reaches advanced stages of the 'Blue Whale Challenge' have been prevented from taking the fatal plunge, thanks to a prompt intervention by his teacher.

Malaysia has banned its citizens from traveling to North Korea as the country faces increasing diplomatic pressure over its weapons programs.

Some 56,000 Rohingya refugees living in Malaysia will be given access to education, training and healthcare using funds contributed by the Qatar government.

A cyclone barrels into the southeast coast of India killing at least two people and bringing down trees and power lines as authorities move tens of thousands of people from low-lying areas.

Footage of Chinese bank staff being spanked for poor performance at a training session has gone viral, triggering public anger

China yesterday warned US President Barack Obama against meeting with the Dalai Lama at the White House, saying

Five men convicted of gang-raping a Danish tourist in the Indian capital in 2014 were yesterday sentenced to life in

Chinese construction on a South China Sea islet claimed by the Philippines would prompt "actions being taken" by