World / Asia

PM Narendra Modi addressing the delegates during the India-Africa Forum Summit on October 29, 2015. AFP New Delhi: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves to supporters before giving a speech during her campaign in her constituency of Kawhmu township...

Seoul: South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed a seven-year prison sentence for the CEO of the company that operated the ill-fated Sewol...

KATHMANDU: Nepal signed a deal on Wednesday with China to import petroleum products, its embassy in Beijing said, as the Himalayan nation tries...

  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Online taxi-hailing service Uber will launch in Pakistan by the end of the year, a spokeswoman said on...

USS Lassen (DDG 82), (R) transits in formation with ROKS Sokcho (PCC 778) during exercise Foal Eagle 2015, in waters east of the...

Representational image United Nations, United States: More than 50,000 North Koreans have been sent to work abroad, mainly in Russia and China, in...

  Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court has called on the state to ensure that hundreds of people facing imprisonment and even execution under controversial blasphemy...

  Kathmandu: Nepal's parliament elected lawmaker Bidhya Bhandari as the country's first female president Wednesday, after the adoption of a landmark constitution last month....

  Beijing: A sailor on the first Chinese yacht to enter the gruelling Sydney to Hobart yacht race has been swept overboard as the...

Pune: FTII students who went on strike on June 12 against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as its chairman returned to their classes...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Paris, France, recently. EPA   Phnom Penh: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is set to give a rare...

  By Jatindra Dash and Krishna N Das Bhubaneshwar/New Delhi: India's Odisha state is seeking to revive a controversial plan to mine for bauxite...

  New Delhi: India's government said Wednesday it plans to ban surrogate services for foreigners wanting babies, a move likely to hit hard the...

A young injured Pakistani earthquake survivor in Shangla, that was one of the worst-hit regions of Pakistan. AFP Shangla, Pakistan: Rescuers raced against...

  New Delhi: Facebook chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday he believes India will be crucial to getting "the next billion online"...

Mumbai: Mumbai-born British businessman Lord Ghulam Kaderbhoy Noon, who earned the moniker 'Curry King' for popularising Indian chicken tikka and curry in Britain...

Philippine President Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III (C) with FOCAP members taking a selfie during the Annual Presidential Forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association...