A convoy of diplomats travelling in Myanmar came under fire from an unknown armed group, a military official and a diplomat said yesterday.

Six members of a family, including three women, were shot dead and three others were wounded today in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district in a gruesome fall-out of a long-standing land dispute, said a senior police official

At least seven teachers were killed in a shooting at a school in northwestern Pakistan yesterday in what appeared to be retaliation for an attack shortly before in which another teacher was shot dead, officials said.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari arrived in the Indian city of Goa yesterday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. In a video message on Twitter, Bilawal — the first foreign minister to

At least seven teachers were killed in a shooting at a school in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday in what appeared to be retaliation for an attack shortly before in which another teacher was shot dead, officials said

Islamist militants killed six Pakistani soldiers in an exchange of fire with the military in a northwestern tribal district bordering Afghanistan, the army said on Thursday

President Mohammed Shahabuddin today urged India to take more effective steps in persuading Myanmar to take back Rohingyas from Bangladesh

A senior Taliban leader yesterday warned the United Nations Security Council to give up its “failed policy of pressure” after members adopted a resolution

Terming hate speech as a serious threat to the nation, the Supreme Court of India today directed all states and union territories to register cases over such crimes even if no complaints are made

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif secured a vote of confidence from the National Assembly yesterday, with 180 lawmakers reposing “full confidence” in his leadership as the premier.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif secured a vote of confidence from the National Assembly on Thursday, with 180 lawmakers reposing "full confidence" in his leadership as the premier

A Gujarat High Court judge today recused herself from hearing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s appeal against the order of the Surat sessions court which refused to stay his conviction in a four-year-old criminal defamation case, Rahul’s lawyer said

Government and think-tank representatives from Myanmar and its neighbours, including India and China, held talks in New Delhi on Tuesday as part of a secretive effort to de-escalate a bloody crisis in the army-run Southeast Asian nation, two sources said

Two explosions in a counter-terrorism ammunition depot in northwest Pakistan killed at least 13 people and wounded over 50 on Monday, police said

At least 12 people, mostly policemen, were killed by multiple explosions caused by a fire in a munitions cache in a Pakistan police station on Monday, officials said

Two explosions rocked a counter-terrorism office in northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing at least eight people, police said.

When Sikh separatist preacher Amritpal Singh was finally apprehended outside a Guruwara in Rode village in north Indian state Punjab's Moga district this morning, the contrived symbolism of the place could not be lost sight of

After being on the run for just over a month, wanted radical Sikh separatist preacher Amritpal Singh was arrested today from north Indian state Punjab's Moga district, police said

Pakistan's foreign minister will attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in India next month, his ministry said today, in what will be the first visit by a top Pakistani government official to India in nearly a decade.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court (SC) yesterday warned the government of “serious consequences” if it failed to release the funds required for conducting polls in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.