World / Asia

AMRITSAR, India: An angry mob threw stones at police on Sunday near the site of a deadly railway accident in north India, demanding...

Kabul, Hundreds of Afghan polling centres opened Sunday for a second day of voting in a chaotic legislative election marred by deadly violence...

New Delhi, Thousands of runners brushed off health warnings Sunday to compete in the New Delhi half marathon, even as smog reached unhealthy...

KABUL, Voting in Afghanistan's parliamentary election will be extended to Sunday in some constituencies after technical and organizational problems stopped voters casting their...

Kabul, Multiple explosions rocked polling centres across Kabul on Saturday, as voters cast their ballots in long-delayed legislative elections. Voters were seen fleeing...

KABUL, Afghans began voting on Saturday in parliamentary elections overshadowed by chaotic organisation, allegations of corruption and violence that has forced a postponement...

New Delhi:  Former Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari died on Thursday -- on his 93rd birthday -- at a private...

LUCKNOW, India:  Private security guard Ajit Singh Rana says he supports a police crackdown on gangsters in India's most populous state, even after...

Kandahar:  A powerful Afghan police chief and a journalist were among at least three people killed on Thursday when a gunman opened fire...

Kabul: At least 10 election candidates have been killed, thousands of polling centres closed, and many voters are likely to stay home due...

BEIJING: Around 6,000 people have been evacuated following a landslide in Tibet that blocked the flow of one of the region's key rivers,...

JAKARTA: Indonesia's anti-graft agency said on Thursday it had raided 10 locations, including the home of the deputy chairman of the Lippo Group,...

NEW DELHI: Indian minister MJ Akbar said on Wednesday he had resigned to fight allegations of sexual harassment levied by several women, the...

NILAKKAL, India: Rightwing Hindu groups attacked women journalists at an Indian hill temple on Wednesday, trying to prevent women of menstrual age entering...

BANGKOK, A former Buddhist monk who sparked outrage in Thailand over his lavish lifestyle and is already serving time for fraud was sentenced...

Srinagar, India: Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city of disputed Kashmir on Wednesday shortly after a gunbattle between militants and...

Tokyo: A company supplying equipment to protect major buildings in Japan from earthquakes has admitted falsifying data, authorities said Wednesday, stressing there was...

KABUL, An Afghan election candidate was killed by a bomb planted under his office chair in the southern province of Helmand on Wednesday,...