Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggests a joint exercise by the disaster management forces of South Asian countries for a joint response to natural calamities as he held talks with visiting Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina.

Sri Lanka's former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse admits his dream of a political comeback was over after conceding defeat in parliamentary elections.

Two people were killed and nine others injured by lightning in Bochaganj upazila yesterday.

Two suicide attackers yesterday killed a Pakistani provincial minister, who had campaigned against militants, and at least 15 other people, after detonating a bomb at a meeting the minister was attending.

India summons Pakistan's envoy in New Delhi to protest against civilian deaths in recent troop firings along their disputed border, hiking tensions ahead of talks between the nuclear-armed rivals.

The wreckage of an Indonesian plane carrying 54 people has been found in the remote western Papua region.

The death toll from massive explosions in China's port city of Tianjin rises to 112 and 95 people are still missing.

Three civilians were killed yesterday in Indian-controlled Kashmir when the car they were travelling in was hit by a mortar shell fired by Pakistani soldiers, police said, as the rival nations continued to exchange heavy fire across their de facto border in the disputed territory.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday warned that corruption was eating away at India "like a termite" as he used an independence day speech to pledge his commitment to eradicating graft and poverty.

Eighty-five people are now known to have been killed in giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin on Wednesday, local officials say.

Hyderabad police arrests six people, including two alleged Bangladeshi nationals, for their suspected links with terror groups and human trafficking.

At least 50 people are known to have died, and more than 700 injured, following two major explosions in China's northern port city of Tianjin.

The death toll from severe flooding across Myanmar has topped 100, state media reported yesterday, with nearly one million people affected as fears intensify for the country's crucial rice bowl region.

Around 30 young girls come for a small hair donation drive titled 'Hair to Help' at the KMC Sports Complex arranged by Pakistan Youth Forum (PYF).

Seven people have been arrested in eastern Pakistan on suspicion of involvement in a child sexual abuse and extortion scandal.

A total of 159 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims, who were rescued by Myanmar’s Navy, are brought back to Bangladesh.

Nepal's rival parties have signed an agreement drawing up the country's internal borders in a breakthrough that paves the way for a new national constitution, the country's prime minister said yesterday.

Powerful Typhoon Soudelor is battering Taiwan with strong winds and heavy rain, leaving at least four people dead.

Residents in the Japanese city of Hiroshima commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped by a US aircraft.

Former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram escaped unhurt when bullets fired near his car grazed the vehicle following a traffic accident in Karachi on Wednesday.