World / Asia

Sriharikota:  India yesterday scored a double success, launching its latest - and heaviest so far - communication satellite GSAT-19 with its brand new...

NEW DELHI: Indian federal investigators launched a fraud probe on Monday into the founders of news channel NDTV, in a step the channel...

KABUL, Afghanistan: At least six people were killed and 87 others wounded when multiple blasts ripped through a funeral ceremony at a cemetery...

Sydney: Australian police Monday shot dead a man who took a woman hostage in a Melbourne apartment, after the body of another man...

CHAPARHAR, Afghanistan: From his sandbagged command post outside the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, Brigadier General Mohammad Nasim Sangin says he needs more...

Dhaka: Bangladeshi authorities have confiscated half a tonne of gold from a top jeweller, officials said Sunday, amid a crackdown on a booming...

Marawi, Philippines: Efforts to rescue up to 2,000 civilians trapped by fighting between troops and Islamist militants in a southern Philippine city failed...

Kashmir - Two Indian soldiers were killed and four injured after militants ambushed an army convoy in India-administered Kashmir on Saturday. The insurgents...

  Kabul,  At least three consecutive explosions were heard in the Afghan capital Kabul city few minutes earlier with the preliminary reports suggesting the...

KABUL, Afghanistan: At least four people were killed and 11 others wounded when multiple blasts ripped through a funeral and burial ceremony at...

KARACHI, Pakistan: Five Indian soldiers were killed during a clash along the Line of Control (LoC) -- a de facto border region that...

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday that Islamic State militants were not behind the attack on a casino in the capital...

Paris: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday to go "above and beyond" the Paris Agreement on...

Kabul: Explosions Saturday rocked the funeral ceremony of an Afghan man killed during protests over the worsening security situation in the capital Kabul,...

KABUL: At least seven people have been killed on Friday during an anti-government protest in the Afghan capital of Kabul, local media have...

Singapore: Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Saturday that North Korea posed a global threat and praised China's efforts to influence Pyongyang, while also...

Marawi, Philippines: Dozens of people ran to freedom through a terrifying gauntlet of military air strikes and Islamist gunmen Saturday, nearly two weeks...

MANILA: Security experts and patrons at a Philippines casino on Friday expressed alarm at the apparent ease with which a lone gunman was...