Nepal is set for a new coalition government led by politician K P Sharma Oli after the more radical Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal lost a parliamentary vote of confidence yesterday, ending a tumultuous 20-month tenure.

India said yesterday it would hold an annual “Murder of the Constitution Day” from next year, commemorating a dark historical chapter tied to the family of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief political rival.

India’s main opposition Congress party yesterday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose an additional tax on the country’s billionaires to generate funds for stretched public services like education and health.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday granted interim bail to opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case, but he will stay in jail due to his arrest in another case.

India's Supreme Court today granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister and key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal who was arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam filed by the Enforcement Directorate

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday granted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party around 20 seats in parliament reserved for women and minorities, months after national elections marred by allegations of pre-poll rigging

At least 63 people were missing in Nepal today after a landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept two buses off a highway and into a river, authorities said.

Myanmar’s junta appears to be “trying to destroy a country it cannot control”, the UN special rapporteur to the country warned yesterday.

Women in Asia have made strides in politics, especially in national parliaments with gender quotas. But is the continent approaching gender parity?

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Mindanao, Philippines, on Thursday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said

Myanmar's junta appears to be "trying to destroy a country it cannot control", the UN special rapporteur to the country warned on Thursday

Taiwan's defence ministry said Thursday it had detected 66 Chinese military aircraft around the island in a 24-hour window, a record-high this year, a day after Beijing reportedly conducted military exercises in nearby waters

Myanmar ethnic minority fighters said yesterday they have seized a town along a key trade highway to China following days of clashes with junta troops.

Taiwan’s defence ministry said 37 Chinese aircraft were detected around the self-ruled island yesterday as they headed to exercises with an aircraft carrier in the western Pacific.

India has no right to carry out development in the area China calls South Tibet, China’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday in response to a Reuters report on New Delhi’s plans to speed up hydropower projects in the border state.

The powerful military plays an oversized role in making and breaking governments in Pakistan, where the new powers for its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency provoked outcry from the opposition and on social media.

The kidney transplant racket in Delhi, exposed by the arrest of seven persons, including three Bangladeshis and an Indian doctor, was part of a bigger inter-state network involving patients from Bangladesh in Rajasthan and Haryana, Delhi Police sources said

Devastating floods in India’s northeast that have killed scores of people also swamped a national park drowning six threatened rhinos and other wildlife, government officials said yesterday.

India plans to spend $1 billion to expedite the construction of 12 hydropower stations in the northeastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, two government sources said, a move that could raise tensions with China that lays claims to the region.

The “mastermind” behind the kidney transplant racket busted in Delhi is a Bangladeshi national and both donors and receivers in the case were from Bangladesh, Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police’s Crime Branch Amit Goel said today