An increasing number of medical institutions are using smartphone apps to help improve the lifestyles of patients suffering from diabetes and heart failure while also providing them with better treatment.

The United States is willing to work with China on a "results- oriented" relationship, but Beijing's actions in the South China Sea were coercive and the Pentagon would "compete vigorously" if needed, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said yesterday.

Mount Merapi in Central Java of Indonesia erupts again, forcing refugees from several villages to take shelter.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday called for countries to have "equal access" to shared maritime and air spaces, and for regional disputes to be settled under international law.

China is discussing with India a visit by Chinese border forces to build trust on their disputed frontier, China's defence ministry said

Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Britain agreeing to facilitate the return of

US assertions that China is militarising the South China Sea are "ridiculous", China said yesterday, after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis

The Pakistan government yesterday directed the interior ministry to block the national identity card (NIC) and passport of former

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday suffered major setbacks in by-elections to four parliamentary and 10

Bimala Begum is worried. She is among nearly three million married women in India's northeastern state of Assam who have been

Military history fans have a rare chance to buy a German World War II bunker put up by the Nazis in the British Isles.

Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific

Two new cases of the deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus is confirmed in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where another two people were killed by the virus, a health official says.

Chinese engineers soon will have a world-record-holding product to offer to express delivery companies: the largest civilian drone.

Indian police were forced to escort water tankers through the streets of Shimla yesterday as an unprecedented shortage sparked brawls

A Indian soldier has died in West Bengal state of suspected infection by the Nipah virus, an official said yesterday, heightening fears the

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis vowed Tuesday that the US would keep confronting China over its territorial claims in the South China

Indonesia and India yesterday pledged to step up defence and maritime cooperation, with plans to develop a strategic Indonesian

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he wants to develop an island on a cluster of rocks previously disputed with

Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada presents the first federal budget for the fiscal year 2018-19 in Parliament on Tuesday. The Rs 1.31 trillion fiscal plan focuses on energy, infrastructure and proposes a string of reforms in social and agriculture sectors.