Justice Ayesha Malik was sworn in as the first female judge of the Pakistani Supreme Court yesterday, a landmark occasion in a nation where activists say the law is often wielded against women.

Hong Kong’s chief justice yesterday defended the handpicking of judges to hear controversial national security cases, dismissing “unsubstantiated” concerns about the rule of law in the Chinese finance hub.

Author Taslima Nasreen said her recent tweets flaying surrogacy as exploitative of poor women, who lend their wombs, was not designed as an attack on Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas.

Expressing confidence that people would never take to the streets against him, especially on the call of the ‘tainted’ opposition, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday warned his opponents that if he was forced out of office, he would become even more dangerous for them.

Omicron, the highly-transmissible Covid-19 strain driving the ongoing third wave of the pandemic across India, is in “community transmission stage” in the country, said a report released yesterday by a consortium of labs of the Indian government. 

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan today said that the country’s inflation is the only problem keeping him awake at night.

As India celebrates the 125th birth anniversary of iconic freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, here’s a look at some of his descendants:

At least two people were killed and over 15 injured when a large fire broke out in a multi-storey residential building in India’s financial capital Mumbai yesterday, authorities said.

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, 96, has been admitted to a specialist heart hospital for the third time in the space of a few weeks, a spokesperson said yesterday.

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been admitted to a specialist heart hospital for the third time in the space of a few weeks, a spokesperson said Saturday.

At least seven persons were killed and 19 others injured in a major fire that broke out on the 18th floor of a 20-storey building in India’s financial capital Mumbai today, officials said.

Myanmar’s junta sentenced a member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s ousted party to death for terror offences yesterday, a statement said.

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the daughters of a male Hindu dying without a will would be entitled to inherit father’s self-acquired and other properties obtained in the partition.

China yesterday condemned a French parliament resolution that accuses Beijing of carrying out a genocide against its Uyghur Muslim population, a move that has strained ties two weeks before the Winter Olympics. 

India today said it has ordered the blocking of 35 Pakistan-based YouTube-based news channels and two websites which were involved in spreading anti-India fake news in a coordinated fashion over digital media.

A grand granite statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, an iconic leader of India’s independence struggle, would be installed at the India Gate in New Delhi “as a symbol of the country’s indebtedness to him,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the daughters of a male Hindu dying without a will would be entitled to inherit father’s self-acquired and other properties obtained in the partition.

North Korea yesterday hinted it could resume nuclear and long-range weapons tests as it prepares for “confrontation” with Washington -- its latest threat after a string of sanctions-busting missile launches. 

At least two people were killed and 22 wounded yesterday by a bomb blast in a busy shopping district of the Pakistani megacity of Lahore,

Myanmar's military has arrested three people working for the independent news portal Dawei Watch, an editor at the publication said on Thursday (January 20), the latest detentions under a media crackdown that has occurred since last year's coup.