Italy’s prime minister warned yesterday that the “future of Europe is at stake”, after droves of migrants landed on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.

Santiniketan, where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore set up Visva Bharati, has been added to the Unesco World Heritage List

India's renowned author, filmmaker, and journalist Gita Mehta died of age-related ailments in New Delhi yesterday at the age of 80, The Times of India reports quoting PTI

A member of Iran's Basij paramilitary force linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was shot dead during events falling on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death, state media reported Sunday.

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have arrested at least 18 staff of an international NGO, including an American woman, accusing them of carrying out Christian missionary work, the country’s leaders said yesterday.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday termed a complaint, lodged in the ethnic strife-affected state of Manipur, against the Editors Guild of India (EGI) and its four members a “counter-narrative of the government”

Congress spokesperson says about India's opposition alliance's decision not to appear on shows of 14 TV anchors

India’s opposition alliance has blacklisted 14 TV news anchors, accusing them of spreading “hate-filled” news debates.

The main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan reopened to pedestrians and vehicles yesterday, more than a week after it was closed following a gun battle between frontier guards.

As many as 175 people have been killed, 1,118 injured, and 33 are still missing since ethnic violence broke out in Manipur on May 3, the state’s police has said. Ninety-six unclaimed bodies are lying unclaimed in morgues, it said. 

Says director general of Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR)

India’s opposition alliance has blacklisted 14 TV news anchors, accusing them of spreading “hate-filled” news debates.

Aditya L1 spacecraft, India's first space-based mission to study the sun, today underwent the fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre successfully, the country's space agency said

Five Indian officers and two suspected rebels were killed in separate gun battles this week in Indian-administered Kashmir, with clashes ongoing, officials in the disputed region said Thursday

The first phase of Ram Temple in India’s town of Ayodhya will be completed in December and will open to devotees in January, an official said yesterday.

Dozens of Chinese warplanes and 10 navy ships were detected around Taiwan, authorities in Taipei said yesterday after warning that Beijing was conducting air and sea drills in the Western Pacific.

Myanmar's junta is endangering the life of jailed democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi, her political party said on Thursday, accusing the generals of depriving her of medical care and food during her incarceration

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan’s jail detention related to charges of leaking state secrets was extended for another two weeks, his lawyer said yesterday. The latest extension of the remand order will keep Khan in jail until September 26,

India’s southern state of Kerala shut some schools, offices and public transport yesterday in a race to stop the spread of the rare and deadly Nipah virus, which has killed two people. 

A fire at an apartment block in Vietnam’s Hanoi has killed 56 people, among them children, and injured 37, police said yesterday.