Ten members of India’s dwindling Great Andamanese tribe have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said yesterday, fuelling concerns about the safety of the group and other indigenous people in the remote archipelago.

India has termed the border situation with China in Ladakh the “most serious” since the 1962 Sino-India conflict and said the number of forces currently deployed by both sides at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is “unprecedented”.

India recorded more than 60,000 cases of Covid-19 for the eighth day in a row yesterday, as total cases crossed 3.2 million, data from the federal health ministry showed.

An investigation committee formed by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) today blamed immigration authority of Abu Dhabi, UAE for sending back 112 Bangladeshi migrant workers and denying them entry into the country.

Kazakhstan has signed a deal to get supplies of Russia’s first potential Covid-19 vaccine once clinical trials are complete, the Central Asian nation’s government says.

The Indian National Congress is likely to appoint a panel of senior leaders to assist interim chief Sonia Gandhi till she is at the helm of affairs, for though the party maintains all is well but the discontent, evinced by a letter seeking a leadership change, may not have been fully doused.

Rescue workers in western India yesterday pulled a toddler alive from the rubble of an apartment building some 20 hours after it collapsed killing at least five people.

The West Bengal government, along with the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata, has begun the process of repatriating 19 Tabligh Jamaat members of the neighbouring country, who have been stuck in the state since the Covid-19 outbreak in March.

A rubbish truck driver and four Bangladeshi workers were detained on Monday (August 24) for “flying the Malaysian flag upside down” in front of their lorry.

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is back at work filming India’s version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” following a bout of Covid-19, while authorities eased coronavirus curbs on movie and TV shoots.

Three Bangladeshi men, allegedly with no travel documents, and a female private taxi driver are arrested at a roadblock in Jalan Napoh, Changlun, near Jitra in Malaysia.

Sri Lanka’s president has vowed to abolish a controversial constitutional provision restricting his powers as he opened a new parliamentary session following his party’s sweeping election victory.

Myanmar has locked down the state capital of conflict-torn Rakhine state after an outbreak of a coronavirus strain that officials said was more infectious than that previously seen in the country.

Health authorities in China’s capital Beijing have removed a requirement for people to wear masks outdoors, further relaxing rules aimed at preventing the spread the novel coronavirus after the city reported 13 consecutive days without new cases.

Health authorities in China’s capital Beijing have removed a requirement for people to wear masks outdoors, further relaxing rules aimed at preventing the spread the novel coronavirus after the city reported 13 consecutive days without new cases.

American authorities on Wednesday formally notified Hong Kong that the United States has withdrawn from three bilateral deals with the semi-autonomous Chinese city on extradition and taxation.

US-Bangla Airlines is resuming its flights on the Dhaka-Doha route from August 31, after nearly five months of flight suspension due to the global Covid-19 outbreak.

A man from Indonesia has racked up millions of views on YouTube for literally doing nothing.

The Indian government has ordered “immediate” pullback of nearly 10,000 paramilitary personnel from militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, officials say.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has played down differences with longtime ally Saudi Arabia after his army chief visited Riyadh in a bid to ease a dispute over policy towards the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.