The company at the center of a probe into why more than a dozen women died after being sterilized in India has denied that the antibiotic tablets it manufactured were contaminated with a chemical compound commonly found in rat poison.
India and Pakistan solemnly lowered their national flags at a dusk military ceremony on their main land border crossing on Monday, a day after a suicide attack killed almost 60 people on the Pakistani side.
A Bangladesh war crimes court convicted an Islamist party leader on Sunday of atrocities during the country's war of independence from Pakistan more than four decades ago and sentenced him to death
Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd said it has agreed to pay $39.75 million to settle litigation concerning its participation in Texas Medicaid, the U.S. federal-state healthcare program for people with low incomes.
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian campaigner against child trafficking and labor Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
India and Pakistan exchanged more gun and mortar fire in the disputed Kashmir region on Thursday, injuring five civilians, but Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hinted an end could be in sight for the worst cross-border violence in a decade.
Fighting intensified between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wednesday, wounding a dozen along a more than 200-km (124-mile) stretch of border.
Tokyo police are investigating the possibility that a Japanese student tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday, as the United States carries out air strikes on militant targets.
The rise in rural wages now taking place across Asia could lift hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty in the next decade, a new report showed on Thursday.
Police in western India have arrested 140 people after two men were stabbed during violence between Hindus and Muslims that left more than a dozen injured and was triggered by an image posted on Facebook, officials said on Monday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday he wants to hold bilateral talks with neighboring Pakistan "without a shadow of terrorism," a day after Pakistan's prime minister expressed frustration with stalled talks over Kashmir.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif criticized India in his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Friday for withdrawing from planned peace talks last month over the disputed region of Kashmir.
India and China have agreed to pull back troops ranged against each other on a remote Himalayan plateau, the Indian government said on Friday, ending their biggest face-off on the disputed border in a year.
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India said on Tuesday it would firmly defend its 3,500-km- (2,200-mile-) long border with China after domestic media reported a new face-off on the disputed frontier, just days ahead of a visit by President Xi Jinping.
India's pricing regulator has fined more than a dozen global and local carmakers a total of 25.5 billion rupees ($420 million) after a probe found they had engaged in anti-competitive practices in the world's sixth largest auto market.
India's junior minister for communications and information technology Killi Kruparani's announcement of a probe in the domestic operations of Chinese company Huawei Technologies is the latest development of the region's attempt to stave of potential threats to the country's national security.
Indian police have arrested Meena Kumari, a head teacher of a school in the eastern Bihar state of India where 23 children died after eating food contaminated with insecticide, BBC News reported. She handed herself in on Wednesday. Police now believe she can help explain how the deadly insecticide monocrotophos ended up in the free school lunch. All total, 47 primary school children have gotten sick after consuming the meal of rice and soybeans
A Swiss female tourist was gang raped by reportedly eight people at a forest area in Central India, by the Datia district of Madhya Pradesh, police said on Saturday. The assailants reportedly overpowered her husband, beating him with wooden sticks before tying him up and sexually assaulting his wife in front of him.
Three sisters were killed "and the police did nothing for two days," in the town of Murmadi, the the Bhandara district in the Maharashtra state, which is more than 630 miles south of India's capital New Dehli
Five men accused of gang-raping and murdering a 23-year-old student in New Delhi in December will be formally charged in court on Saturday, which will set the stage for the beginning of their trial.
