Air India said yesterday it had sent a relief airplane after a jet from New Delhi to San Francisco had to land in eastern Russia with an engine problem.

Millions of Chinese students sit for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zero-Covid rules that forced classes online for months on end

The acting governor of an Afghan province was killed by a suicide bomber yesterday, officials said, months after the region’s police chief was killed in a similar attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

Indian authorities yesterday made fervent appeals to families to help identify over 100 unclaimed bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries after 275 people were killed in the country’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades.

A gun battle between Indian security forces and insurgents in Manipur state killed one security personnel and wounded two others early yesterday,

Coverage of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has disappeared from all mainstream news channels in the country after the media regulator asked networks to block out people involved in rioting last month, a Reuters survey showed on Monday.

Indian authorities made fervent appeals to families today to help identify over 100 unclaimed bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries after 275 people were killed in the country's deadliest rail crash in over two decades..The disaster struck on Friday, when a passenger train hit a stationa

Chinese universities are drastically increasing tuition fees this year, with some making their first rises in two decades, hurt by a reduced national budget for tertiary education and tight local government finances

More than 180 years of horse racing in Singapore is set to come to an end, with the city-state's only racecourse closing and being redeveloped for housing

The United States and India agreed a roadmap for military industrial cooperation yesterday, as New Delhi seeks to reduce its reliance on key arms supplier Russia in the face of tensions with China.

A little over 48 hours after India’s worst train disaster in three decades, the movement of trains resumed at the site of the incident after hundreds of workers

Around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said yesterday.

Indian Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw yesterday spoke of “sabotage’ as the cause of India’s deadliest train disaster in decades was linked to the signal system.

Fourteen people were killed and five are missing following a landslide in southwestern China's Sichuan province on Sunday, the local government said

Three Chinese astronauts working at the country's space station have returned safely to Earth, state media reported Sunday, hailing the mission as a "complete success"

As Indian rescuers wrapped up last night’s race against time to retrieve survivors and bodies following the devastating train crash in Odisha state, preliminary investigations revealed that a signal failure was behind India’s worst rail crash in over two decades.

Police arrested four people in Hong Kong for “seditious” acts and “disorderly conduct” yesterday, on the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Iran’s navy commander said his country and Saudi Arabia, as well as three other Gulf states, plan to form a naval alliance that will also include India and Pakistan, Iranian media reported yesterday.

India on Friday urged Germany to send back a 2-year-old Indian girl who has been in its foster care system for more than 20 months, saying it infringed on “her social, cultural and linguistic rights.”

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the site of the horrific triple train accident site in Odisha state, met the injured in hospitals and assured that those responsible for the incident will be punished severely