A court in Gujarat has made some curious observations on cow slaughter while sentencing a man to life imprisonment for illegally transporting cattle.

China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population had already been infected.

China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population had already been infected.

A fire at an apartment building in Kobe in western Japan killed four men and left four in critical condition on Sunday, an official said.

India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary which questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying that even sharing of any clips via social media is barred.

The Indian government has issued directives for the blocking of multiple YouTube videos and Twitter posts sharing links to BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question”, several Indian media outlets reported yesterday.

The two top-ranking female officials from the United Nations made some progress in engaging with the Taliban to have them reverse their crackdown on women's rights, a UN spokesman said.

At least 28 people were killed in an avalanche in the city of Nyingchi in the southwestern region of Tibet, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Friday.

Air India has been fined 3 million Indian rupees ($37,000) for its handling of an unruly passenger on one of its flights in November, India's aviation regulator said on Friday.

India’s Supreme Court Collegium has stood by its choice of three judges for appointment to high courts despite the Indian government’s objections.

The death toll from an avalanche that struck a road in mountainous Tibet this week has risen to 20, state television reported yesterday. The snowslide occurred

At least 15 people were injured when a bomb blast derailed a passenger train in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan yesterday, a government official said.

India yesterday pledged further support to its southern neighbour Sri Lanka, as the crisis-stricken country expects to get China’s backing for its debt restructuring plan within days to help unlock a $2.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund.

The US Department of State, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services, has launched the Welcome Corps, a new private sponsorship program that will enable Americans to sponsor refugees arriving through the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), directly support their resettlement, and make a difference by welcoming these new neighbours into their communities.

A major Indian journalist group urged the government to reject a proposal to police fake news on social media, saying such a change to the country’s information-technology rules would be akin to censorship.

At least seven civilians were killed when Myanmar’s armed forces launched air strikes at a village in the coup-hit country’s central Sagaing region, according to a witness and BBC Burmese.

India’s foreign minister arrives in Colombo yesterday following his country’s backing of Sri Lanka for a $2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday decided to issue a notification confirming PTI chief Imran Khan's victory in by-elections on seven National Assembly seats that was earlier withheld for his alleged failure to submit details of the party's funding to the electoral body.

An overnight fire that broke out in the barracks of an Armenian military unit left 15 servicemen dead and three others in serious condition, the country's defence ministry said today.

Nobel laureate Maria Ressa told AFP she keeps a prison "go bag", bundles of cash for bail, and runs simulations of police raids with her staff as she fights for press freedom in the Philippines.