Six Bangladeshi fishermen returned home from Myanmar today 37 days after their detention in the neighbouring country.

Indian e-commerce company Flipkart has apologised for its sexist marketing of kitchen appliances on Women’s Day.

Thousands of Pakistani opposition party supporters yesterday rallied to demand Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ouster, accusing him of mismanaging the economy and poor governance, in the toughest challenge he has faced since taking power in 2018.

A delegation of senior opposition lawmakers submitted a no-confidence motion against Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan with the National Assembly Secretariat today (March 8, 2022), PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said.

An Argentinian court has asked the social media giant Facebook to clarify its role in “fuelling the ongoing genocide against Rohingya people and to share evidence crucial to holding the Myanmar military to account”.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was set for a resounding victory but a reduced majority at elections in the country’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, exit polls forecast yesterday.

China and India should help each other accomplish goals, instead of "draining each others' energies", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday.

At least five personnel of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) were killed today when their colleague allegedly opened fire at a BSF camp in Punjab state’s Amritsar, officials said.

At least 100 new species -- from monkeys to mussels -- were found in Myanmar in a decade, according to conservationists who said discoveries during the country’s fleeting period of openness revealed “astonishing biodiversity”.

China’s military budget -- the second-largest in the world after the United States -- is set to increase by 7.1 percent in 2022, Beijing announced yesterday.

Myanmar’s junta has revoked the citizenship of several members of an opposition government dominated by Aung San Suu Kyi’s toppled administration, it said yesterday.

The death toll from a suicide attack at a Shia mosque in northwest Pakistan rose to 62 overnight as police yesterday said they would try to identify the bomber from two severed feet found at the scene.

One of the Taliban’s most secretive leaders, whose only picture on US “most wanted” lists is a grainy semi-covered profile, was photographed openly for the first time yesterday at a passing-out parade for new Afghan police recruits.

North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile yesterday, Seoul’s military said, continuing this year’s record-breaking blitz of weapons tests with a launch just days before South Korea’s presidential election.

Bangladesh and India have decided to conduct a feasibility study on a comprehensive bilateral free-trade agreement covering goods and services, reopen the border haats and operationalise the busy Benapole-Petrapole trade point round the clock.

Officials vowed Saturday to hunt down and arrest the masterminds behind a deadly mosque attack in Pakistan a day earlier claimed by an Islamic State affiliate. The assault killed 63 people and wounded nearly 200.

The Islamic State says a lone Afghan suicide bomber struck inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar during Friday prayers, killing at least 56 worshippers and wounding 194 people.

A chartered plane carrying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ran into a turbulent air pocket minutes before landing at Kolkata airport when she was returning from election campaign in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh yesterday evening, Indian media reported today.

At least 56 people were killed and 194 wounded yesterday by a suicide bomb at a Shia mosque in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar, the deadliest attack in the country since 2018.

At least 11 people died in eastern India after a massive explosion at a house where firecrackers were being made illegally, officials said yesterday.