China’s foreign minister yesterday called for Myanmar’s junta to hold talks with its opponents during his first visit to the country since the 2021 coup that plunged it into turmoil.

The death toll from a massive landslide in India hit 37 yesterday, authorities said, as rescue teams battled teeming rain to search for 25 others still missing three days later. 

A Hong Kong lawmaker who posed for a group photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the leader’s visit to the financial hub this week confirmed yesterday he has since tested positive for coronavirus. 

North Korea criticised the US, South Korea and Japan’s recent deal on strengthening military cooperation to be a means to materialise a US plan for a military alliance like Nato in the region.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Indian-administered Kashmir says she has been barred from travelling abroad by the Indian authorities who provided no valid reasons for their refusal.

A wanted Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist captured in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday was an active member of BJP. He was also the party’s Minority Morcha social media in-charge in Jammu.

Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted yesterday that the next 30 to 40 years will be the era of his party and India will become a world leader.

Sri Lanka has less than a day’s worth of fuel left, the energy minister said yesterday, with public transport grinding to a halt as the country’s economic crisis deepened.

A passenger bus slid off a mountain road and fell into a deep ravine in heavy rain in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing 19 people and injuring 12 others, a government official said.

More than two dozen crew members are unaccounted for after their ship broke into two during a typhoon in the South China Sea yesterday, with rescuers scrambling to find them, officials say. 

Indian police made fresh arrests yesterday in the murder of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan, which had sparked tensions between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority and a clampdown on protests and the internet to prevent them from escalating.

A three-day assembly of Islamic clerics and tribal elders in the Afghan capital concluded Saturday with pledges of support for the Taliban and calls on the international community to recognise the country’s Taliban-led government.

The Kolkata Police today issued a look-out notice for suspended BJP activist Nupur Sharma after she failed to appear before its investigators for the fourth time in a row over her controversial remarks about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that triggered an outrage.

The Delhi Police were today (July 2, 2022) left red-faced when a senior officer KPS Malhotra was forced to admit that he had incorrectly informed the media that fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was sent to 14-day judicial custody.

An Indian domestic flight made an emergency landing in New Delhi on Saturday (July 2) after its cabin filled with smoke soon after take-off for the central city of Jabalpur, the airline said.

India’s main opposition Congress today (July 2, 2022) referred to some media reports claiming a link between Riyaz Akhtari, the main accused in the beheading of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan’s Udaipur town, and local BJP leaders. BJP has dismissed the claim as “fake”.

A court in Delhi today (July 2, 2022) rejected the bail plea of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair and sent him to 14-day judicial custody.

The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada yesterday called for the world to stop telling them how to run Afghanistan, insisting sharia law was the only model for a successful Islamic state. 

Rescuers in India’s northeast have recovered 20 bodies from the site of a landslide that buried a railway construction camp, the army said yesterday, after a second day of search efforts.

North Korea claimed on Friday that the country's first Covid-19 outbreak began with patients touching "alien things" near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame to the neighbour for the wave of infections in the isolated country.