New Delhi's new chief minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday announced his government will halve power bills and provide free water to poorer households after his anti-corruption party won a landslide election this month.

A political crisis in the Maldives will deepen unless parties hold emergency talks following the arrest of ex-president Mohamed Nasheed on terrorism charges, an anti-corruption watchdog said yesterday.

The first train to complete a journey on the world's longest railway line, connecting Spain and China, has returned home.

A court in India's Mumbai city yesterday sentenced gangster Abu Salem, a key associate of crime lord Dawood Ibrahim,

Rajendra Pachauri, who quit this week as head of the UN's climate science panel following sexual harassment claims, is recovering in a New Delhi hospital from a heart problem,

A former model and Miss Turkey could face up to two years for social media posts that prosecutors have deemed to be critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The US has warned its citizens to defer non-essential travel to Pakistan due to a threat posed by foreign and local militants throughout the country.

The United States and regional power India have voiced concern after former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was forcibly dragged into court to face terrorism charges and denied legal access and medical treatment.

France's defence minister yesterday held talks with his Indian counterpart in a fresh attempt to seal a troubled deal to sell 126 Rafale fighter jets.

Accusing the Modi government of antipathy towards farmers, Social activist Anna Hazare yesterday launched a two-day agitation against the controversial land acquisition ordinance here,

Washington and Tehran's top diplomats sat down again yesterday for talks on Iran's nuclear programme as they struggled to narrow gaps ahead of a key deadline.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has gone on a sabbatical “for a few weeks” to reflect upon recent events and the future of the party that was completely wiped out in the Delhi Assembly elections capping a string of losses.

Police in the Maldives yesterday arrested former president Mohamed Nasheed under an anti-terror law for the alleged illegal detention of a judge when he was in power more than three years ago.

A top United Nations climate change official has pulled out of a key meeting in Kenya next week as Indian police investigate a sexual harassment complaint against him, officials have said.

China has expressed "strong dissatisfaction and staunch opposition" after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited a frontier area controlled by New Delhi but claimed by Beijing, state media reported.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long enjoyed close relations, but Islamabad's new-found resolve for fighting the root causes of extremism has seen the Gulf state come in for rare criticism.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday vowed to protect all religious groups after a string of attacks on churches in Delhi.

As dawn breaks over the Indian capital, a group of police women are already hard at work practising their punches, on a mission to rid the city's streets of sexual predators.

Residents who fled from conflict areas near the Myanmar and Chinese border arrive at a temporary refugee camp at a monastery in Lashio,

The death toll from swine flu in 2015 alone has soared to 585 with 100 more casualties reported across the country in since February 12, prompting the Centre to order additional stocks of medicines and diagnostic kits.