A 25-year-old man was suspected of attacking a kindergarten in China’s Guangdong province yesterday, killing six people and injuring one, triggering an outpouring of concern about violence against children at school.

Regional stability and civilian security came up for discussion as senior US diplomat Uzra Zeya held talks with Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra in New Delhi today

China and Russia need to "lead the correct direction of global governance reform", according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who hailed the two countries' partnership at a meeting with a top Russian politician in Beijing today, state media reported

Six people were killed and one wounded in an attack at a kindergarten in Lianjiang in south China's Guangdong province on Monday, a spokeswoman for the city government said

Officials from Kathmandu and Dhaka have agreed to sign a long-term agreement for the export of 40MW electricity from Nepal to Bangladesh

At least 12 people have died in the past two days as heavy rain pounded several parts of north India. The weather office has predicted more showers over the next couple of days.

At least eleven people were killed and dozens more injured in India yesterday after clashes over local polls in West Bengal, a state notorious for political violence during election campaigns.

Two police officers and four attackers were killed when gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a police station in Iran's restive southeast on Saturday

In the first arrests in connection with the horrific train accident which claimed 293 lives in the eastern state Odisha's Balasore in June, India's Central Bureau of Investigation probing the incident yesterday took into custody three railway personnel

A high court in western India yesterday rejected an appeal by opposition leader Rahul Gandhi to suspend his conviction in a defamation case, quashing for now his hope of returning to parliament and contesting national elections due next year.

Major (Retd) Parimal Kumar Ghosh, one of the first Indians to fight in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, died at the age of 84.

India’s federal police arrested three railway employees yesterday in connection with a deadly train crash last month that killed 292 people, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Chinese regulators said yesterday they had fined fintech giant Ant Group almost $1 billion for “illegal acts” and handed an affiliate of rival Tencent a $415 million penalty, adding that a long-running crackdown on tech firms was drawing to a close.

Major (Retd) Parimal Kumar Ghosh, one of the first Indians to fight in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, has died at the age of 84

At least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that have lashed Pakistan since last month, officials said today

India's Gujarat High Court today rejected Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea to stay his conviction in a criminal defamation case for his controversial remark about the Modi surname

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said today that one or two of the team of international experts behind its report greenlighting Japan's release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima plant may have had concerns

Islamist militants killed a Pakistani army officer yesterday during a gun battle in a tribal district close to the Afghan border, the army said, close to where three soldiers died in a suicide attack the previous day.

China has launched its first homegrown open-source operating system for computers, state media said yesterday, as Beijing seeks to reduce its foreign dependence at a time of increased rivalry with the United States.

India's third mission to the moon is scheduled to be launched on July 14 and the lander of the spacecraft is expected to soft-land on the lunar surface on August 23 or 24, the Indian Space Research Organisation said today