British Prime Minister Theresa May will use her first bilateral trade trip since taking office to try to boost ties with India before leaving the European Union.

A week-old boy who was kidnapped last week from the maternity ward of the Salem Government Hospital was found within two days.

South Korean prosecutors yesterday arrested two former top presidential aides in a snowballing influence-peddling scandal which has seen tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demand President Park Geun-Hye resign.

Hong Kong police fired pepper spray and protesters threw bottles and road cones in clashes near China’s representative office yesterday night where activists had gathered to demonstrate against Beijing’s attempts to stop a fledgling independence movement.

Bangladesh will establish seven Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunals in seven divisions as fast-track courts for quick disposal of cases involving terrorism and militancy, officials said yesterday.

Twenty Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in the Tamil Nadu state of India set to return home under the UNHCR facilitated voluntary repatriation programme.

Indonesia and Vietnam are looking to join Thailand in blazing a trail for solar power in Southeast Asia, introducing targets to fire up green energy generation as a landmark global agreement to curb pollution takes effect.

Myanmar police are looking for a British teacher after his colleague was found dead following a night of drinking in downtown Yangon, officers said yesterday.

India’s Union Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj...

Women offer prayers during the Chhath festival at Bagmati river in Kathmandu yesterday.

“Some of this reminds me of dropping a big stone in a pond,” Terry Phillips mused over lunch at the Glenville Queen diner, just outside of Schenectady, New York. “You get this big wave.

On taxes, public spending and protectionism the two candidates for the White House are diametrically opposed: Hillary Clinton represents continuity while Donald Trump seduces or frightens with his radical proposals.