Leaders of Russia, Pakistan, France, Japan, Australia and Israel among world leaders to congratulate Narendra Modi ahead of final results
US has been ramping up sailings through strategic waterway and Taiwan will see the latest voyage as a sign of support from the Trump administration
Rahul Gandhi's Congress Party suffered a beating from BJP, even losing the family borough of Amethi in northern Uttar Pradesh
Tensions have also been high, dozens of Islamic State-linked terror suspects have been arrested, including some who had allegedly planned to detonate bombs at ...
Prime Minister Nahendra Modi’s landslide victory in India has ignited his adherents with their ‘Hindu nation’ slogan
Human rights campaigners say the government will struggle to enforce it
MP status of wildly popular anti-junta candidate who got 6-million votes is suspended until verdict in legal case is decided
Fact-checkers say calls for violence on networks have spiked since Tuesday when a contested election count confirmed President Joko Widodo as the winner
Opposition leader says reports predicting BJP victory are fake, urging his supporters to keep faith in Congress party’s chances
In a rare new conference, Pyongyang’s UN envoy has demanded the return of the impounded vessel
Prime minister’s Bharatiya Janata Party is projected to win between 339 and 365 seats in the 545-member lower house of parliament
Japan says compensation issues related to the wartime labour policy were settled by the treaty that normalised relations
Governing party’s coalition partners spotlight the Ram temple, property rights in Kashmir and the slaughter of cows
Shrinking orders in April put the island on track for the seventh consecutive contraction in shipments
Google suspends key business with Huawei Technologies in line with Trump blacklist
The bank said allegations in a New York Times report that it failed to flag potentially dodgy activity to US authorities were ‘categorically false’
The Queensland government will be under renewed pressure to approve the project, which has been slowed down over environmental concerns
Scale of outdoors defecation overshadows prime minister’s campaign
Safety accord allowed to continue its oversight
Maithripala Sirisena says security forces could use their experience in defeating separatist Tamil guerrillas a decade ago
