India's emerging security concerns along the border with Bangladesh and Myanmar were discussed at a two-day conference of the country's top police officials addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Odisha

"Despite the clear provisions of the Places of Worship Act, the courts too seem to respond to such demands with undue alacrity and haste," they said.

Cyclone Fengal made landfall late Saturday with sustained winds of 70-80 kilometres an hour (43-50 miles per hour).

Sectarian feuding in northwest Pakistan killed 13 more people, a local government official said yesterday, as warring Sunnis and Shias defied repeated ceasefire orders in recent conflict claiming 124 lives.

More than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children have been rescued after their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia, the United Nations refugee agency said yesterday.

A man allegedly hurled liquid at former Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal during his "padyatra" in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar locality today, police said

India's Congress MP Shashi Tharoor expressed concern over the situation in Bangladesh in the aftermath of the arrest of former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, according to ANI

More than 13,000 people had been forced to flee their homes, with temporary shelters set up in schools and temples

Taiwan said yesterday it detected 41 Chinese military aircraft and ships around the island ahead of a Hawaii stopover by President Lai Ching-te, part of a Pacific tour that has sparked fury in Beijing.

India’s foreign ministry said yesterday that bribery allegations against billionaire Gautam Adani is a legal issue between private firms and the US Department of Justice and that New Delhi has not received any request on this case from Washington.

A Beijing court yesterday sentenced veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu to seven years in prison for espionage, his family said in a statement, calling the verdict a grave injustice.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday barred his cabinet members from going on leave, after the displacement this week of more than 90,000 people in a growing flood disaster that officials fear could be country’s worst in a decade.

Nepal’s premier will visit China next month, the foreign ministry said yesterday, a departure from the usual practice by the Himalayan republic’s leaders of making India their first official destination.

She is running for the post of mayor of Kirtipur, a settlement on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu, in Sunday's elections.

A top Chinese military official has been dismissed while an investigation into “serious violations of discipline” takes place, Beijing said yesterday, the latest senior figure to fall in a sweeping crackdown on graft in the country’s armed forces.

Hemant Soren, a tribal leader who won the recent assembly elections in Jharkhand staving off an aggressive campaign by BJP on the issue of infiltration from Bangladesh, was today sworn in as the 14th chief minister of the mineral-rich state

A Malaysian court yesterday allowed corruption charges in one of several cases linked to the scandal-wracked 1MDB sovereign wealth fund against jailed ex-prime minister Najib Razak to be dropped, his lawyer said.

Pakistan police said yesterday they had arrested nearly 1,000 protesters who marched on the capital demanding the release of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, after crowds were evicted from the city centre in a sweeping security crackdown.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday said he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity in the alleged persecution of the Rohingyas.

India’s lower house of parliament suspended proceedings for a second day yesterday after disruptions by lawmakers demanding a discussion of the US indictment of billionaire Gautam Adani, while stocks of his group’s companies clawed back some losses.