Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday appointed a 30-member cabinet, retaining control over the police while they investigate an alleged plot to kill him that triggered a row with the premier and led to a lengthy political crisis.

Three newly elected Indian state governments have waived up to $8.6 billion in farm loans in a bid by Rahul Gandhi's main opposition Congress party to boost support ahead of 2019 elections.

A three-month-old baby was among eight people killed in a fire at a Mumbai hospital, officials said yesterday. The blaze broke out around 4:00pm on Monday on the fourth floor of a

An Afghan peace negotiations team has arrived in Abu Dhabi, an official said yesterday, a day after talks attended by US and Taliban representatives were held in the city aimed at ending the 17-year conflict. International players and Kabul are trying to bring the Taliban to the table as military measures have been largely futile.

At least six people die and more than 145 are rescued after a fire ripped through a government hospital in India's financial capital Mumbai, officials say.

Ranil Wickremesinghe is sworn in as Sri Lanka's prime minister, making a remarkable comeback weeks after being ousted by President Maithripala Sirisena under controversial circumstances.

China has the most number of high ranked universities followed by Japan and South Korea in Asia. However, the Asian countries with no high ranked universities are Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, Philippines, Indonesia and Mongolia.

At least 13 miners were feared dead after being trapped by flooding in an illegal "rat hole" coal mine site in remote northeastern India,

India's top court yesterday dismissed calls for an investigation into a French military jet deal that was threatening to damage Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of elections next year.

A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has been removed from Ghana's most prestigious university after complaints

A Buddhist monk has been killed by a leopard while meditating in a protected forest for the big cats, the fifth such attack in the area this

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party officials were gathering yesterday for talks on a general election due by May, with their deliberations overshadowed by the party's defeat at the polls in three heartland rural states.

After suffering an electoral thrashing at the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party in 2014, India's small regional and caste-based parties are back in the reckoning months ahead of the next general election.

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court yesterday ruled that President Maithripala Sirisena's sacking of parliament last month was illegal, clearing the way for potential impeachment proceedings against him.

Sri Lanka's legislature yesterday voted overwhelmingly to demand the reinstatement of prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, as a bitter power struggle headed for a government shut down within weeks.

Suspected rebels attacked a police post in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday killing four officers, police said, two days after soldiers

The defeat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in assembly elections in the three Indian heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan was the most severe since the party assumed power on the back of a landslide victory in parliamentary polls in May, 2014.

Sri Lanka's ousted prime minister yesterday promised to bring tens of thousands of supporters to the capital next week for a massive demonstration unless President Maithripala Sirisena reinstated him imminently.

Sri Lanka's highest court yesterday banned President Maithripala Sirisena from sacking the legislature until it decides on the legality of his move last month to call snap elections.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said that the current political crisis in the country will not drag on beyond a week even as a war of words between him and ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe intensified.