India’s Supreme Court today overturned the result of the Chandigarh mayoral poll in which the BJP candidate had emerged an unlikely winner and declared defeated his AAP-Congress alliance rival Kuldeep Kumar as the city’s new mayor

Farmers' unions protesting at the Punjab-Haryana border yesterday rejected the Indian government's proposal to buy pulses, maize and cotton in unlimited quantity at minimum support price (MSP) for five years, saying it was not in their interest and that they would resume their march towards Delhi tomorrow as part of the agitation.

India is likely to lift restrictions on onion export to Bangladesh and some other countries under certain conditions, said a federal minister of the country.

Independent candidates backed by Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister that won seats in inconclusive elections over 10 days ago will join the minority Sunni Ittehad Council Political Party to form a government, the party’s interim chief said yesterday.

Myanmar’s junta has sentenced to death three high-ranking officers who oversaw the surrender of a strategic town on the Chinese border to ethnic minority fighters last month, military sources told AFP.

A Bangladesh visa centre will soon be opened in Silchar, the district headquarters town of north eastern Indian state of Assam

Myanmar's junta has sentenced to death three high-ranking officers who oversaw the surrender of a strategic town on the Chinese border to ethnic minority fighters last month, military sources told AFP

Two people were killed in a crush outside a passport office in Myanmar on Monday, a rescue worker said, as thousands rush to leave the country to escape a junta military service law

A landslide caused by heavy snowfall has killed 25 people and injured eight others in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a disaster management ministry spokesman said Monday, raising an earlier toll

From 2026, travellers flying out of Singapore will pay higher airfares because of a levy that the government will impose as part of a move to require flights departing from the city-state to use environmentally sustainable jet fuel

Authorities in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, yesterday ordered its officials not to take pictures or videos of “living things”. In a letter addressed to civil and military officials,

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole yesterday, just six months after he was arrested following a dramatic return to the kingdom from 15 years of self-imposed exile.

A key aide of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s party yesterday commented on Saturday’s press conference by the Rawalpindi commissioner — wherein he made rigging allegations in the country’s February 8 elections.

China yesterday said it would step up law enforcement patrols in waters near Taiwan, after two Chinese nationals died in a boat incident involving Taiwan’s coast guard.

Thailand's convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole on Sunday, his lawyer said, starting a first day of freedom in his homeland, 15 years after fleeing in the wake of his overthrow by the royalist military

A senior bureaucrat said yesterday he helped rig Pakistan’s elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner.

Japan’s space agency toasted a successful blast-off for its new flagship rocket yesterday, making it third time lucky after years of delays and two previous failed attempts.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference 2024.

Ten people were killed and 15 more injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory in India yesterday, police said.

Jailed former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra will be freed today, the kingdom’s prime minister has said, just six months after returning from 15 years of self-imposed exile.