West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday claimed that a conspiracy was being hatched to dismiss her government that was performing well.

A moderate 4.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Wenxian County in northwest China Saturday.

Disgraced Chinese leader Bo Xilai was Thursday charged with bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power by prosecutors in one of the biggest political scandals to hit the ruling Communist Party in decades.

A man who murdered a pregnant woman in China to sell her corpse as a “ghost bride” has been executed, state media reported Thursday.

Myanmar has agreed to release some 70 political prisoners, an official said Tuesday, after President Thein Sein vowed to free all dissidents by the end of the year.

If the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is any indictor, an expenditure of `4060.48 crore to execute the flagshi

A man in a wheelchair ignited a homemade explosive device outside an arrivals exit at Beijing’s international airport Saturday, state media reported, injuring himself but no others.

Land-locked Manipur is facing an acute shortage of essential items as hundreds of state-bound trucks loaded with essential and daily need items are stranded on the Guwahati-Dimapur-Imphal portion of NH-39 in Nagaland for the past week, officials said Friday.

Several Islamic groups on Friday demanded the recall of the Vatican’s first envoy to Malaysia, describing him as an “enemy of the state” after he supported the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims.

North and South Korea held fresh talks on Wednesday about reopening their jointly-run industrial estate, but little progress was reported as they wrangled over who was to blame for the shutdown.