The leaders of North and South Korea will hold a historic summit in the Demilitarised Zone next month after Pyongyang expressed

A statue of Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is pulled down in Belonia town in southern part of Tripura state.

Thousands of Chinese legislators erupted into enthusiastic applause yesterday over plans to give President Xi Jinping a lifetime

The most senior South Koreans to travel to North Korea for more than a decade met leader Kim Jong Un yesterday, a Seoul official

A South Korean delegation meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean official said, after arriving in the North on a visit aimed at encouraging North Korea and the United States to talk.

South Korea will dispatch a delegation led by senior security officials for a two-day visit to North Korea starting

Downplaying the BJP's victory in Tripura, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said the BJP will never win West Bengal

Pakistan elected its first female senator from the lowest Dalit caste in weekend polls which also saw the ruling party

A woman from Pakistan's marginalised Hindu minority is elected to the senate for the first time ever in an election over the weekend in which a Taliban-linked cleric was defeated.

The BJP will form the next government in Nagaland with the help of other parties, Union minister and BJP incharge

Meghalaya threw up a hung Assembly yesterday with the ruling Congress emerging as the single largest party after

A plan for India to build a military base on an outlying Seychelles island has won favour among the archipelago

China lodged an official protest with the United States yesterday, saying it was "strongly dissatisfied" after the US Senate passed a bill promoting relations with self-governing Taiwan.

A suicide bomber killed four soldiers in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta and a gunman shot dead two policemen in a separate

Singapore government ministers were told yesterday their salaries will stay frozen despite a recommendation for a hike. Ministerial

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he would not cooperate with UN investigators looking into extrajudicial killings under his rule, telling police and soldiers not to cooperate with any probe.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in yesterday said Japan cannot declare the issue of its former wartime sex slaves "over", repeating calls for Tokyo to apologise over the issue and confront wrongdoings.

Maldives on Wednesday denied a Japanese foreign ministry statement that said a Maldives-flagged vessel was used to illegally transfer goods from a North Korean-flagged tanker in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.

China is developing technologies to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, state media reported yesterday, as Beijing pushes forward

South Korean prosecutors yesterday demanded a 30-year-jail sentence for former president Park Geun-hye, sacked over a wide-