Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged Pakistan to take action against militants India says are responsible for a recent attack on an air base.

Sri Lanka's main opposition yesterday welcomed President Maithripala Sirisena's promise of land for 100,000 people who were forced from their homes during the long civil war, most of them Tamils.

Indian security forces were working yesterday to carefully defuse grenades in the final stages of an operation to secure a vast air base near the border with Pakistan, two days after a militant attack killed seven military personnel and wounded 22.

Afghan special forces fought with insurgents barricaded in a house near the Indian consulate in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif yesterday after an overnight attack that coincided with an assault on an Indian air base near the border with Pakistan.

Six people are killed and dozens injured when a strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake strikes northeast India, sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets even hundreds of kilometres away in Bangladesh.

It is a surprise wake up call for people across Bangladesh in the dawn when a 6.7 magnitude earthquake jolted Dhaka and other parts of the country. According to US Geological Survey, the epicentre is northwest of Imphal in India, near the Myanmar border.

Gunfire and blasts are heard at an Indian Air Force base attacked by militants a day earlier, as security forces hunted two gunmen still at large in the sprawling facility near the border with Pakistan.

After a drubbing in a state poll in November, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to overhaul his cabinet to weed out underperformers and improve his government's image. Problem is, several sources said, he can't find the right replacements.

Deadly earthquakes twice rocked the top of the world in April, killing more than 8,000 people in Nepal, India and China, in the worst

Myanmar's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi spent nearly 18 years under house arrest, she's barred from being president

India successfully test-fired yesterday a new long range surface-to-air missile capable of countering aerial threats at extended ranges, as Prime Minister

2015 was the year that Southeast Asia faced its own refugee crisis, while the world focused on Europe.

At least 21 people are killed and dozens wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber on a motorbike crashed into the main gate of a government office in the northwest Pakistan town of Mardan.

A total of 110 journalists are killed around the world in 2015, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday, warning that more were being deliberately targeted for their work in supposedly peaceful countries.

A periodical published by India's main opposition Congress has criticised India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru over his foreign policy moves.

A Taliban bomber detonates an explosives-packed vehicle near Kabul airport in an attack on a NATO convoy, killing one civilian.

India's ruling BJP's general secretary Ram Madhav has said that parts of India - including Pakistan and Bangladesh - which were separated 60 years ago, will reunite to form "Akhand Bharat" (undivided India).

Eight months after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal, its government has finally opened the way for a reconstruction agency to spend $4.1 billion pledged by foreign donors to help the massive number of people rendered homeless.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake centred in the Hindu Kush jolted Afghanistan and Pakistan, damaging homes and leaving dozens of people injured just two months after a killer quake rattled the same mountainous region.

Dozens of people are reportedly missing and feared dead after a landslide hit a jade mining region in Myanmar's northern Kachin state.