Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a sympathy message to his United States counterpart Joe Biden yesterday, a day after the 79-year-old US leader tested positive for Covid-19.

Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared the main protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early yesterday, fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in.

Japan's nuclear regulators have approved a plan to release into the ocean water from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, the government said on Friday.

India’s Border Security Force today (July 22, 2022) claimed to have made the biggest seizure of gold weighing 41.49 kg worth nearly Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers in the Ichhamati River along the border with Bangladesh.

World Court judges on Friday (July 22) dismissed objections by Myanmar to a genocide case brought against it for its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority, paving the way for the case to proceed.

Senior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, his office said, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the Indian Ocean nation grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.

Director General (DG) of India’s Border Security Force Pankaj Kumar Singh yesterday justified border killings, saying all Bangladeshis killed on the border were criminals.

A 47-year-old Nepali sherpa has set a climbing record by scaling all the world’s 14 peaks that are higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) for a second time, his

Indian investigators yesterday summoned Sonia Gandhi, president of the opposition Congress party, for questioning on money laundering accusations that her allies have blamed on an abuse of government power.

Sri Lanka’s six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in yesterday as president of the crisis-hit nation, with plans to form a unity government to manage the turmoil.

Droupadi Murmu was elected India’s 15th president yesterday with the backing of the ruling party, making her the first person from a marginalised community to occupy the top post.

The world’s longest-living male giant panda under human care, An An, has died at the age of 35, the Hong Kong zoo where he spent most of his life said yesterday.

The death toll from five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods jumped to at least 282 in Pakistan on Thursday, officials said, as the latest downpours continued lashing the impoverished country.

Droupadi Murmu became the first tribal leader to be elected as India’s new president, the highest constitutional office.

History was scripted today when Droupadi Murmu, the candidate of India’s ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, was elected the country’s new president becoming the first tribal leader to occupy the highest constitutional office.

New Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will appoint an ally of the ousted Rajapaksa dynasty as prime minister, four sources said on Thursday, a day after urging unity to find a way out of the country's worst economic crisis in decades.

Director General of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) Pankaj Kumar Singh today (July 21, 2022) tried to justify Bangladeshi nationals killed on the border – terming them as “criminals”.

India’s ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu led by securing 540 of the 748 votes of the members of both houses of parliament while joint opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha got 208 votes after the first round of counting today (July 21, 2022).

National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India, while probing activities of the banned militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), has arrested a man for allegedly propagating “jihad against India”.

Sri Lanka's six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in Thursday as president of the crisis-hit South Asian nation, as officials said he was looking to form a unity government to manage the turmoil.