NEW DELHI: The main opposition Congress party's promise to give sizable cash handouts to India's poorest families if voted to power could re-energise...
NEW DELHI: The main opposition Congress party's promise to give sizable cash handouts to India's poorest families if voted to power could re-energise...
India’s regional parties have done what two decades of governments in New Delhi could not -- instituted a quota system to lift more...
MUMBAI: Three years after India said it would increase state compensation for slavery survivors, not one has received the full amount, new data...
Bangkok: Nine people have been arrested in Thailand for spreading "fake news" on Facebook with posts about sacked election officials and bogus ballots...
Dhaka: A huge fire tore through a Dhaka office block Thursday killing at least five people with many others feared trapped in the...
Dhaka: Fire crews rushed to the scene of a huge blaze that broke out in a 19-storey commercial building in Dhaka on Thursday,...
BANGKOK: Cambodia has returned land taken a decade ago from indigenous communities for a Vietnamese company's rubber plantation, a sign that foreign investors...
NEW DELHI: India's Election Commission said it had directed a committee of officers to examine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of an anti-satellite...
VIENNA: The Austrian government is considering dissolving a far-right group after it emerged that one of its leading members received a donation in...
Austria's government confirmed that there was a financial link between the shooter who gunned down 50 people in New Zealand and a white...
Dhaka: A Bangladeshi mother has stunned doctors by giving birth to healthy twins 26 days after a first child was born prematurely. Arifa...
New Delhi: India on Wednesday destroyed a low-orbiting satellite in a missile test that puts the country in the space "super league", Prime...
NEW DELHI: Millions of women and homeless people will be barred from voting in India's elections because of biases and difficulties in getting...
DHAKA: Dozens of Bangladeshis who say they were trafficked to Vanuatu with the promise of jobs are stuck in limbo and struggling to...
MUMBAI: Christian voters in the Indian city of Mumbai have demanded more burial grounds ahead of national elections next month, claiming they are...
MUMBAI: Indian tax authorities are hoping for a windfall with the auction on Tuesday of rare oil paintings that were once part of...
NEW DELHI: Facebook is taking steps to reduce the spread of false information on its platforms ahead of India's general election, company officials...
Hong Kong, Hong Kong's human rights have "deteriorated severely" over the past year, with free speech under attack, Amnesty International said Tuesday, the...
