External affairs ministry says dev projects in Bangladesh will resume once turmoil ends

Adani Power has refuted reports in the Bangladeshi media that say that the company is supplying costly power to India's neighbouring country, CNBC TV 18 reports

Typhoon Shanshan dumped record rains Friday as it slowly churned up through Japan, triggering transport havoc and widespread warnings of landslides with up to six people killed.

Hong Kong pro-democracy news outlet Stand News and its two former chief editors were found guilty of sedition yesterday, the first conviction of its kind since the city came under Chinese rule in 1997.

Intense monsoon rains and floods in India's Gujarat state killed at least 28 people in the past three days, some drowning and others hit by falling trees, government officials said

Thousands of protesters clashed in India’s eastern city of Kolkata yesterday, where demonstrations seeking justice for a murdered doctor spiralled into violent street skirmishes between political rivals.

China said Wednesday it was “willing to engage” with the UN Human Rights Office over its northwestern region of Xinjiang but rejected efforts to “smear” its policies there.

Day-to-day life was partially affected in India's West Bengal today during a 12-hour shutdown called by BJP protesting the police action against demonstrators during a march to the state secretariat yesterday

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he supports a swift end to the grinding conflict in Ukraine after visiting the war-hit country.

Pakistani forces hunted separatist militants Tuesday who killed dozens when they pulled passengers off buses, blew up a bridge and stormed a hotel a day earlier.

The persecuted and stateless Rohingya minority is caught in a new violent crackdown in Myanmar, with children among those killed, two reports from influential expert groups warned today.

Vietnam's national assembly will elect the country's new president in October, state media said today, the latest top-level change during an unusually turbulent period for the communist state.

Malaysia has charged opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin with sedition for allegedly insulting the country's former king, his lawyer said on Tuesday

At least 73 people were killed in Pakistan’s province of Balochistan when separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and highways and security forces launched retaliatory operations, officials said yesterday.

Experts here say all barrage gates usually kept open during monsoon

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party today pulled up its lawmaker and Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut over her remarks linking farmers' protest to the unrest in Bangladesh

Flash floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in Thailand have killed 22 people in recent days, disaster officials said today, as they warned of further sudden flooding this week.

Separatist gunmen shot and killed at least 22 people in southwest Pakistan today in an attack that singled out ethnic Punjabis, government officials said.

The Philippines and China clashed in disputed waters of the South China Sea yesterday over what Manila said was a resupply mission for fishermen, the latest in a series of sea and air confrontations in the strategic waterway.

At least 34 people were killed in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan today, including 12 pilgrims who had been trying to reach Iran, rescue officials said.