Authorities shut down a number of schools following a high-velocity dust storm that hit parts of north India on Monday night with a wind speed of up to 70 kilometers per hour, reports Indian news portal Hindustan Times.

Malaysia's Human Rights Commission says the recent redrawing of electoral boundaries, which opposition parties said favored the ruling coalition, is an "epic breach" of democracy.

India's Supreme Court yesterday ordered the trial of eight men accused of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl to be moved to

A 17-year-old Indian girl was fighting for her life yesterday after being raped, doused in kerosene and set alight, the second such case to

Sri Lanka's president announced yesterday he will not retire at the end of his term despite a previous pledge, and said he will seek to

Malaysia's general election this week will be an extraordinary contest, pitting a 92-year-old former authoritarian leader and a jailed

Crisis gripped Cambodia's last independent newspaper yesterday as the editor-in-chief was fired by its new owner over a front-page

Chinese scientists have come up with a new membrane material which can efficiently separate salt from water and has other water purification functions.

Twenty-three people were killed and 11 wounded after gas explosions tore through two neighbouring coal mines in Balochistan,

Malaysia has arrested more than a dozen members of an alleged people trafficking syndicate after intercepting a ship carrying 127 Sri

Seven Indian engineers and an Afghan national working for a power plant in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan were kidnapped

Indian police yesterday said they have arrested the main suspect in the gang rape and gruesome murder of a teenage girl. Dhanu Bhuiyan

Indian soldiers shot dead five Kashmir militants including a rebel university teacher in a gunfight yesterday that triggered violent

Pakistan's interior minister Ahsan Iqbal has been shot in the arm in a suspected assassination attempt at a public meeting in Punjab

Sixteen miners are killed and nine others are wounded when a coal mine collapsed due to a gas explosion in southwestern Pakistan, officials say.

The road to Malaysia's May 9 general election is getting thornier for opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad: officials are cutting out or painting over his image on some billboards and police are investigating him for spreading "fake news".

There is widespread interest about autonomous vehicles in India, Malaysia, China and South Korea, according to a survey in selected countries.

A series of powerful super storms that tore through India this week kills 143 people, as officials warns the death toll could rise with more extreme weather expected.

Afghanistan's slain journalists were remembered on World Press Freedom Day yesterday, days after the deadliest attack on the country's media since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday told a visiting Chinese diplomat that he is committed to denuclearisation, China's foreign ministry said, as diplomatic efforts to bring lasting peace to the Korean peninsula gather pace.