The survey operation, which had begun at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) offices at around 11:30am on Tuesday, lasted for nearly sixty hours

Taliban fighters have stopped the sale of contraceptives in two of Afghanistan’s main cities, claiming their use by women is a western conspiracy to control the Muslim population, according to a media report.

Indian tax officials examined mobile phones and laptops used by some BBC editorial and administrative employees, two sources told Reuters, as an inspection at the British broadcaster’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai entered a third day yesterday.

Indian income tax authorities wrapped up their three-day-long “survey” at BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai last night.

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake rocked the central Philippines yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, though there were no reports of casualties or significant damage.

Sri Lanka’s electricity board hiked consumer rates by up to 275 percent, officials said yesterday, the second steep increase in months as the bankrupt island nation works to secure an IMF bailout.

The group had arrived from Bangladesh, many in a state of exhaustion, said Miftah Cut Ade, a senior member of the area's traditional fishing community.

India is looking into the BBC’s tax structure, the British news organisation said in an internal memo yesterday, as officials searched its premises in New Delhi and Mumbai for a second day, weeks after India banned a BBC documentary as propaganda.

An Islamabad court yesterday rejected the request of PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan, for an extension of his interim bail.

The plea was made in a case pertaining to a protest outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) following its decision in the Toshakhana case

Indian National Congress yesterday asked the country’s government if Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “put pressure on his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to accept terms that were extremely favourable to Adani Power and unfavourable to Bangladesh” in the agreement for power purchase from a plant in Godda, Jharkhand.

Florists with wilting bouquets of red roses and street vendors clutching unsold balloons were heartbroken in the Afghan capital yesterday after the Taliban’s morality police banned Valentine’s Day celebrations.

Sri Lanka will ban single-use plastics, the government said yesterday, in a move that follows a series of wild elephant and deer deaths from plastic poisoning.

Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed Beijing’s “solidarity” with Iran yesterday as he hosted the Islamic republic’s President Ebrahim Raisi at the start of a three-day trip.

Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices yesterday, weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has “nothing to hide or be afraid of” on the controversy over Adani group, the home minister said yesterday, responding to opposition allegations of favouring the conglomerate attacked by a US short seller.

The Indian income tax officials' raid at BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for alleged tax evasion today sparked a war of words between ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which accused the media of "spewing anti-India venom" and the opposition which attacked the government alleging "intimidation" of the media

The BBC said it was "fully cooperating" with Indian tax authorities raiding its New Delhi and Mumbai offices on Tuesday, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The BBC should not "spew venom" while operating in India, a ruling-party spokesman said Tuesday, after tax raids on the British broadcaster's local offices.

Sri Lanka will ban single-use plastics, the government said Tuesday, in a move that follows a series of wild elephant and deer deaths from plastic poisoning.