Protests erupted across Pakistan today after former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested during a court appearance in the capital for one of dozens of cases pending since he was ousted last year

India and Bangladesh share deep ties and have intertwined culture and language and nobody can break the good relations between the two countries, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said today

Myanmar's military used a "vacuum bomb" in an air strike on an opposition village that killed dozens of people in a likely war crime last month, Human Rights Watch said today.

Aides call for nationwide protest

In a statement issued in response to a series of tweets posted by Khan wherein he lashed out at the government and the military, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) asked him to refrain from making accusations without evidence.

Eminent Bangla litterateur Samaresh Majumdar, whose popularity transcended the borders of Bangladesh and West Bengal, passed away yesterday at a private hospital in Kolkata in the evening, losing a protracted battle to a severe infection in the lungs and respiratory system.

Cyclonic storm Mocha is likely to change its course and make landfall on the Bangladesh-Myanmar coasts on May 15, the Indian Meteorological Department said yesterday.

Indian security personnel are escorting back to their homes thousands of people who fled to temporary camps after rioting and ethnic clashes in the northeast that killed about 70 people last week, officials said yesterday.

A convoy of diplomats travelling in Myanmar came under fire from an unknown armed group, a military official and a diplomat said yesterday.

China’s defence minister yesterday told Pakistan’s navy chief that their militaries including their navies should “expand into new fields of cooperation” to bolster the capability of the two neighbours in safeguarding security in the region.

Samaresh was best known for the series of novels Kalbela, Uttaradhikar, and Kalpurush

Twenty-two people, including women and children, were killed when a houseboat with more than 30 passengers on board capsized and sank near a beach in the southern Indian state Kerala's Malappuram district on Sunday, the state government said

The festering crisis in Myanmar will loom over talks between Southeast Asian leaders in Indonesia this week, as they renew calls for an end to the escalating violence.

Some 23,000 people have fled ethnic violence in northeast India that has reportedly killed at least 54, the army said yesterday, although there was no new “major violence” overnight.

Vietnam reported a record high temperature late Saturday with a north-central weather station measuring 44.1 degrees Celsius (111.38 degrees Fahrenheit), officials said, breaking a previous high set in 2019

Philippine authorities have rescued over a thousand people from several Asian nations who were trafficked into the country, held captive and forced to run online scams, an official said yesterday.

A cyclonic circulation has formed and lay over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood, the Indian Met Department announced today

A section of intellectuals of West Bengal today held a sit-in demonstration near the ancestral house of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in Santiniketan, protesting the notice issued by Visva-Bharati University to the economist to vacate the premises

Aftershocks shook Japan a day after a powerful earthquake left at least one person dead, with officials assessing damage Saturday from the jolt that destroyed several buildings

India today said its relations with China cannot be normal if peace and tranquillity in border areas is disturbed