Nitish Kumar, who spearheaded the development of Bihar, one of India's poorest states, is set to be re-elected as its chief minister on Wednesday, in a blow to the ruling Congress party mired in a cor

Reuters: The Central Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday it had arrested at least eight officials from banks and financial institutions on charges of taking bribes to grant large corporate loans

Reuters: South Korea's defence ministry said on Tuesday that North Korea's firing of artillery shells was a clear violation of an armistice between the two countries, and said Pyongyang had planned th

China expressed worry about reports that North Korea had shelled a South Korean island on Tuesday in the latest escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula that neighbors the world's second-biggest

North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, killing two soldiers and setting dozens of houses ablaze, in one of the heaviest attacks on its neighbor since the Kor

Russia sees a 'colossal danger' of an escalation in fighting on the Korean peninsula after North Korea's artillery attacked a South Korean island on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

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A stampede in Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh on Monday has killed hundreds on Monday, the last day of a water festival.

Following is a timeline of some of the worst stampedes in the last 20 years.

Reuters: The New York Times said on Tuesday that a man it had described as a 'Taliban leader' who had taken part in 'secret peace talks' with the Afghan government was in fact an impostor.

The newspa

Reuters: Children are probably safer growing up in Afghanistan's major cities, including the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, than in London, New York, or Glasgow, NATO's top civilian envoy to Afghanis

Bank funding to the entire microfinance industry in India has diminished following a regulatory clampdown on the sector, said Indian rating agency CRISIL, which put 12 microfinance firms under watch w