A stampede at a football stadium in Indonesia has killed at least 125 people and injured more than 320 after police sought to quell violence on the field, authorities said yesterday, in one of the world’s worst stadium disasters.

Pakistan’s Cabinet has formally given the go-ahead to hold an inquiry into the audio leaks purportedly featuring PTI Chairman Imran Khan and his party leaders, it emerged yesterday.

Authorities dispersed a women’s rally in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat yesterday, with protesters claiming they were beaten by Taliban forces who fired shots in the air.

A tractor pulling a trolley packed with religious pilgrims in India overturned and plunged into a pond, killing 26 and seriously injuring 16, officials said yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s government yesterday cut taxes on female sanitary products in a bid to help women and girls unable to afford them because of the country’s economic crisis.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Sunday approved the pre-arrest bail of PTI chief Imran Khan, a day after an arrest warrant was issued for the former premier in connection with his controversial remarks against Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Zeba Chaudhry and other officials at an August 20 public rally.

Indian President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top opposition leader Sonia Gandhi today (October 2, 2022) paid tributes to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on his 153rd birth anniversary.

At least 22 people were killed and several others critically injured when a tractor-trolley overturned and fell into a pond near a village in Kanpur district of India's Uttar Pradesh state yesterday (October 1, 2022).

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles early yesterday, South Korea’s military said, the nuclear-armed country’s fourth launch this week as Seoul, Tokyo and Washington ramp up joint military drills to counter Pyongyang.

The contest for Congress’ presidential poll was narrowed down yesterday to a straight square-off between Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge after the rejection of the nomination paper of third candidate  K N Tripathi.

The death toll of a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom has risen to 35, the UN said yesterday, as Shia Hazara women who bore the brunt of the attack staged a defiant protest against the “genocide” of their minority community.

The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a classroom in Kabul has risen to at least 35, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan told AFP on Saturday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today got a taste of the 5G telecom service, capable of providing ultra-high-speedinternet, by test driving a car in Sweden from New Delhi using the latest service.

India today ushered in 5G telecom era as Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the much-awaited services at a telecom ministry event in New Delhi.

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles early Saturday, South Korea's military said, the nuclear-armed country's fourth such launch this week as Seoul, Tokyo and Washington ramp up joint military drills to counter Pyongyang.

India abstained from voting on a UN Security Council resolution that would have declared Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian territories as invalid.

Thailand’s Constitutional Court yesterday ruled Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha had not exceeded the maximum eight years allowed in office, clearing the way for the former coup leader’s return from a five-week suspension.

A passenger on board a Myanmar domestic flight was shot in the face yesterday when rebels opened fire on the plane as it landed, the country’s military junta said.

The stage was set yesterday for a three-way race for the post of President of India’s main opposition party Congress with senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Shashi Tharoor and KN Tripathi filing their nominations for the October 17 elections to decide who will replace Sonia Gandhi.

Shashi Tharoor today filed his nomination papers for the post of president of India's Congress party which appears set for a person from outside the Nehru-Gandhi clan after a long hiatus.