Indonesia yesterday rejected the offer of a prisoner swap proposed by Canberra in an 11th-hour bid to save two Australian drug smugglers facing execution, saying it is determined to put to death those "who have poisoned our nation".

The Iraqi military launched a major campaign to take back a key city from the self-proclaimed Islamic State over the weekend—a move that caught the US “by surprise,” in the words of one American government official.

Pakistan and India held their first high-level talks for nearly a year yesterday, with a senior Indian diplomat hailing the meeting in Islamabad as "positive and constructive".

One of the men convicted of gang raping a woman on a bus in Delhi has blamed his victim for the fatal attack, saying “girls are far more responsible for rape” than men.

India's western state of Maharashtra has introduced a ban on beef so strict that even possession could land you in jail for five years, media reports and the chief minister said yesterday.

“When the Congress was unwilling to credit others for India's freedom, how can they credit others for India's development.”

Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on the motion of thanks to the President's address, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took on the opposition saying that in a democracy threats do not work.

Some 30,000 Iraqi troops and militia backed by aircraft pounded jihadists in and around Tikrit yesterday

Arun Singh, India's envoy to Paris, will take over the ambassadorial assignment in Washington DC, replacing S Jaishankar,

Taiwan's main opposition party weighed in on the fight over a controversial plan to process the island's nuclear

AAP yesterday said that attempts were being made to remove Arvind Kejriwal as national convener and announced

Three Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers were arrested and then released yesterday over their involvement

Riot police sealed hundreds of Myanmar student protesters inside a monastery yesterday in a tense standoff,

The Indian Government and the BJP yesterday “totally disassociated” itself from Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister

India yesterday announced a modest 7.9 percent increase in defence spending for the fiscal year starting 01 April,

The United States on Friday set out what it called its "bottom lines" to reach a deal with Iran to rein in its nuclear program, ahead of new talks next week.

At first glance, the Toyota Corolla looked like any other taxi bumping along the craggy street.

Sri Lanka yesterday began a three-day hearing on missing persons cases amid protests by Tamil groups who are demanding a credible investigation into such issues.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has urged his army to prepare for war with the United States and its allies, state media said yesterday,

Avalanches triggered by heavy snow have killed more than 100 people in mountainous areas of northern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as rescuers battled to save dozens more trapped in the snow.