Myanmar is holding insurgent suspects incommunicado in a practice that may be covering up torture, UN human rights experts says.

Authorities’ attempt to charge an Indian journalist who exposed the poor quality of meals served at a government school triggered

The Assam government will provide legal aid to the needy people from amongst those who have been excluded from the final list of

Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday both Pakistan and India are nuclear-armed states and escalation of tension may threaten world peace, adding that Pakistan will never start a military conflict.

At least four people, including three CISF personnel, were killed after a massive fire broke out in the stormwater drainage at ONGC’s gas

Eight schoolchildren have died and two others were injured in a “school-related criminal case” in central China, with a 40-year-old

Hong Kong’s embattled leader insisted yesterday she had no intention of stepping down after an audio recording emerged of her

An attacker kills eight students and injures two others at an elementary school in central China on the first day of the new semester, police says.

The United States and ten Southeast Asian countries kicked off maritime drills yesterday, as part of a joint exercise extending into the

Thousands of black-clad students rallied in central Hong Kong yesterday at the start of a two-week university boycott, piling pressure

An abducted Maldivian journalist was murdered by Islamist militants, a panel investigating deaths and disappearances under the previous

Indian probe Chandrayaan-2’s lander Vikram detached itself from atop the main spacecraft yesterday afternoon as planned, as it got

A South Korean lawmaker provoked outrage yesterday when he berated a female economics professor nominated as the country’s

Pakistan openly practises terrorism and there is no scope for negotiations until Islamabad reins in its financing and recruitment of

The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is extremely anxious over the speculation of a large number of ‘Hindustani’ names

After Pakistan PM Imran Khan had ruled out dialogue with India until it reversed the decision to revoke J&K’s special status, his foreign

The Indian External Affairs Ministry has asserted that updating of the NRC in Assam was a statutory, transparent and legal process mandated by the Supreme Court, which is “non-discriminatory” and “leaves no room for bias and injustice”.

1951: First Census of Independent India conducted. First NRC compiled based on Census

North Korea yesterday lashed out at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his comments on Pyongyang’s “rogue behaviour” and

“There is a thin line between nationalism and xenophobia,” Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted, quoting Rabindranath Tagore, ahead