The Philippines on Friday (July 29, 2022) reported its first case of monkeypox.

A two-seater MiG-21 trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed during a training session at an air base in Rajasthan, leaving two pilots dead on Thursday (July 28) evening.

At least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalised in western India after drinking toxic alcohol, police said yesterday, with authorities

The UN Security Council has condemned the Myanmar junta’s execution of four prisoners, drawing praise yesterday from a shadow government of ousted

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country was “ready to mobilise” its nuclear deterrent in any future military clash with the United States and South Korea, state media said yesterday.

Six days after his arrest, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee yesterday sacked Partha Chatterjee from her cabinet and suspended him from all party posts.

Three foreign climbers are missing and feared dead on Pakistan’s treacherous Karakorum mountain range in the country’s far north, an official said yesterday.

India, which is trying to expand its influence in Sri Lanka amid the island’s economic troubles and is worried that China is also making inroads, yesterday said it

A man with alleged links to Bangladesh-based militant group Ansar al Islam was arrested from Morigaon district in India’s Assam where he runs a madrasa, police said today (July 28, 2022).

India’s top opposition leader and Congress Acting President Sonia Gandhi today (July 28, 2022) got involved in a major spat with BJP leaders, including federal minister Smriti Irani, at the Lok Sabha.

As Europe braces for energy shortages from Russian gas cuts, Japan's own energy crisis a decade ago offers survival lessons to households and businesses - such as dimming the lights and taking the stairs.

At least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalised in western India after drinking toxic alcohol, police said on Thursday, with authorities ordering a crackdown on bootleggers.

Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday approved the extension of a state of emergency for a month, as police said two activists who helped lead mass demonstrations that toppled the country’s president were arrested on unlawful assembly charges.

Singapore has extended a short-stay visa for Sri Lanka’s deposed president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country on July 13, local media in the city-state reported yesterday.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least four people in the northern Philippines yesterday, toppling buildings, and shaking high-rise towers more than 300 kilometres away in the capital Manila.

Pakistan’s top court has ruled to hand control of the country’s most populous province, Punjab, to a candidate backed by ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, triggering fresh political uncertainty in the South Asian nation amidst a crippling economic crisis.

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the northern Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday killing four people, damaging buildings and sending strong tremors through the capital, Manila.

A young man in Jammu and Kashmir’s remote Bandipora district has successfully handwritten the Holy Quran on a 500-metre-long paper scroll.

India’s Supreme Court has dismissed petitions by private tour operators seeking exemption from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for the Hajj and Umrah tours they offer.

Sri Lanka will restrict fuel imports for the next 12 months because of a severe shortage of foreign exchange, its energy minister said yesterday, as the island nation’s new government seeks to find a way out of a crippling economic crisis.