Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly session, says his country wants peace with India but maintained it is "not possible without resolving the Kashmir issue".

For all the shrill rhetoric immediately following Sunday's attack on an Indian army camp in Kashmir, which New Delhi blamed on Pakistan, the threat of a sudden escalation in hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals has receded for now.

North Korea has successfully tested a new, high-powered rocket engine, state media said yesterday, a move Seoul said

The SWIFT inter-bank messaging network plans to send daily reports to clients to help them more quickly identify unauthorised payment instructions like those used by hackers to steal $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in February.

A smog outbreak in Southeast Asia last year may have caused over 100,000 premature deaths, according to a new

Dozens more are reported missing as overloaded boat carrying passengers who had attended an annual Muslim ritual rams into pole.

India and Nepal pressed the reset button on bilateral relations as the government welcomed Prachanda, the new PM

Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to jail for killing villagers during an interrogation, the military said, a rare

The 66th birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be celebrated in Navsari district today. On the occassion, Modi

Pakistan, estimated to have the world's fastest-growing nuclear stockpile, could be building a new uranium

Nepal's new prime minister during a visit to New Delhi said yesterday he was trying to "bring everyone on board"

South Korean activists launched tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border into North Korea yesterday,

At least six passengers were killed and more than 100 others were injured Thursday when a passenger train collided with a freight train near the central Pakistani city of Multan, rescuers and railway officials say.

Four employees at Chinese internet giant Alibaba have lost their jobs after being accused of reprogramming an internal system to steal more than 100 boxes of mooncakes, a traditional delicacy shared during this week's Mid-Autumn Festival.

China and Russia will hold eight days of naval drills in the South China Sea off southern China's Guangdong province

A police officer and four militants were killed in separate incidents yesterday in Indian administered-Kashmir as

South Korea has a plan to annihilate the North Korean capital if it shows any signs of mounting a nuclear attack,

North Korea demands that the United States recognises it as a "legitimate nuclear weapons state" following its fifth and largest atomic test.

Two protesters were killed and at least 100 injured Saturday when anti-India demonstrators clashed with

Child marriage is illegal in Nepal, yet the impoverished Himalayan nation has failed to put in place policies to curb the practice with almost 40 percent of girls married before the age of 18.