Authorities in Bangladesh have intensified efforts to deliver food and drinking water to millions of people struggling after heavy rain unleashed catastrophic flooding across a quarter of the country.
The owners of a company that manufactures security cameras have been arrested after a massive fire in a four-storey commercial building in the Indian capital, that's killed 27 people and injured 12 others.
ANU researchers are among a major collaboration that has found dozens of giant mysterious jars which may have been used for burial rituals have been unearthed across four new sites in Assam, India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the UN climate summit in Glasgow, the country's environment minister says, in a boost for global efforts for steeper emission cuts to fight global warming.
India is sending a naval task force to the South China Sea this month to expand security ties with friendly countries, officials say, signalling its intent to play a bigger role in regional efforts to counter China.
Days of landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in western India's Maharashtra state have killed at least 113 people and injured 50, officials say as rescuers scramble to find at least 100 missing.
Rescue teams in India have struggled through thick sludge and debris to reach dozens of submerged homes as the death toll from landslides and accidents caused by torrential monsoon rain rose to 125.
