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Jakarta: Indonesia and encrypted messaging service Telegram have agreed to establish better procedures to stamp out distribution of terrorist propaganda on...

Mumbai: Climate change has led to more than 59,000 farmer suicides in India over the last three decades and rising temperatures could drive the suicide rate...

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah on Tuesday accused the Congress of "conspiring" to derail the Constitution amendment bill...

Guwahati: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a total package of Rs23.5 billion for all north eastern states for mitigating the...

Washington: North Korea's latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has shown that Pyongyang now may be able to reach most of the...

Bangkok: The number of North Koreans slipping illegally into Thailand has surged in recent months, according to immigration bureau officials, as tensions...

Beijing: China loves peace but will never compromise on defending its sovereignty, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday while marking 90 years since the...

Kabul: A total of 2,531 Afghan security forces were killed and 4,238 wounded in the first four months of the year, according to figures released in a report...

Wellington: New Zealand's opposition Labour party appointed Jacinda Ardern as its new leader on Tuesday, less than two months before a general election,...

Manila: The Philippines has registered the fastest-growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Asia-Pacific in the past six years with a 140-per cent increase in the...