India’s latest space mission yesterday entered the Moon’s orbit ahead of the country’s second attempted lunar landing, as its cut-price space programme seeks to reach new heights.

Record-breaking mountaineering duo Kristin Harila and Tenjin “Lama” Sherpa were greeted with a heroes’ welcome in Nepal yesterday after the pair successfully conquered the world’s highest peaks.

A five-member Awami League delegation, led by party presidium member Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, is scheduled to reach New Delhi today on a four-day visit.

Indian farmers have planted 28.3 million hectares (69.9 million acres) with summer-sown rice, according to the farm ministry's latest data, up 3.28 percent from the same period last year, as robust monsoon rains encouraged the expansion of acreage.

PTI Chairman Imran Khan, shortly after an Islamabad trial court declared him guilty of "corrupt practices" in the Toshakhana case, was arrested by Punjab police on Saturday afternoon from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was found guilty of graft Saturday and sentenced to three years in jail, state TV said, in a case involving gifts he received while premier

India’s top court yesterday suspended opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi’s defamation conviction, allowing him to return to parliament and contest national elections due next year.

Traders and businesses in Tripura and other northeastern states of India can now use four routes to get their goods from Chattogram and Mongla ports.  

Eight people were killed yesterday when a freight train hit a pick-up truck trying to cross the tracks in central Thailand, the kingdom’s railway agency said.

India’s Manipur state saw a resurgence of lawlessness exactly three months after ethnic strife first erupted on May 3, leaving 23 people wounded on Thursday, media reported yesterday citing officials.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has proposed that parliament be dissolved on August 9, three days before the end of its term, political sources said yesterday, paving way for a general election by November.

After the India Supreme Court's ruling, the lower house of parliament should now formally reinstate Gandhi

North Korea has “responded” to efforts by the United Nations Command to discuss American soldier Travis King, who ran across the border into North Korea last month and is believed to be detained by Pyongyang, the Command said yesterday.

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has said the military is petrified of an election, which is expected to take place later this year. He also alleged that “fascists” are leading the country into “dark ages”.

Thailand’s parliament yesterday postponed a vote to choose a new prime minister after a Constitutional Court ruling, prolonging the kingdom’s political deadlock nearly three months after an election.

Users aged 16 to 18 would be allowed two hours a day, children aged eight to 16 would get one hour while children under eight would be allowed just eight minutes

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would have “disastrous results” for the world, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told AFP in an interview yesterday, citing the island’s strategic importance for the semiconductor industry and global shipping lanes. Wu’s warning

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to be a virtual participant at a summit of BRICS nations in South Africa later this month rather than attend in person, sources in New Delhi told Reuters.

Militants behind a spate of suicide attacks in Pakistan were being helped by “Afghan citizens” across the border, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said, days after a deadly bombing at a political gathering near the countries’ shared frontier.

Hundreds of scouts at a massive jamboree in South Korea suffered heat exhaustion, organisers said yesterday, as the peninsula battles a heatwave that has caused a reported spike in heat-related deaths.