India has warned social media platforms of “consequential action” after hundreds of hoax bomb threats to Indian airlines this month triggered travel chaos and terror it said threatened national security.

Representatives of civil society and entertainment industry will join the rally and march

Japan voted on Sunday in its tightest election in years, with new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his juggernaut Liberal Democratic Party facing potentially their worst result since 2009

A suicide bomber detonated at a checkpoint in western Pakistan yesterday, killing eight people and wounding five more, officials said.

A new passenger terminal building and "Maitri Dwar" (Friendship Gate) for cargo movement will be inaugurated tomorrow by Indian Home Minister Amit Shah at Petrapole land port, the largest in South Asia, bordering Benapole in Bangladesh

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has welcomed former premier Najib Razak's apology over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal

The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant will resume an operation to remove a sample of highly radioactive material next week, reports said yesterday, after having suspended the effort over a technical snag.

At least 10 Pakistani frontier police were killed in a militant attack on an outpost near the northwestern city of Dera Ismail Khan, the interior ministry said in a statement.

Suspected militants in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir ambushed an army vehicle and killed five people, including three soldiers, officials said yesterday, days after gunmen killed seven construction workers in the disputed territory.

The severe cyclonic storm "Dana" swept coastal areas of India's eastern states of Odisha and West Bengal today since making landfall after midnight, toppling trees, snapping power lines and inundating some low-lying areas but no casualties were reported, officials said

Ten Pakistan border police were killed in an overnight attack on a check post by at least 20 militants, officials said Friday

The severe cyclonic storm Dana early today slammed into Bhitarkanika and Dhamra coasts of the eastern Indian state of Odisha where authorities evacuated a million people to safety, shut schools, and suspended flight and train operations.

At least 1.1 million people on India’s eastern coast hunkered down in storm shelters ahead of a powerful cyclone set to hammer the low-lying region early this morning.

Major airports will shut overnight, including key travel hub Kolkata, where heavy rain was already lashing the sprawling megacity

The Wayanad seat was previously held by her brother, Rahul Gandhi

Schools in some parts of India’s eastern state of Odisha were ordered to shut and tourists were asked to vacate the popular beach city of Puri, as authorities braced for a severe cyclonic storm that is expected to hit later this week.

Indian commandos shot dead five Maoist rebels in the dense jungles of central India, police said today

Pakistan’s government narrowly passed constitutional amendments yesterday giving lawmakers more power to appoint top judges, who have issued a series of recent decisions favouring opposition chief Imran Khan.

Agitating junior doctors of India's West Bengal state tonight withdrew their 17-day-long hunger strike over the rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, hours after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata

A doctor and six labourers were shot dead in an attack on the site of an under-construction tunnel on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district last night, officials said