India’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur today warned that any website or YouTube channel found to “conspire against India” will be blocked.

A bomb blast ripped through a crowded market in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, killing three people and wounding over 20, police said.

Three Indian naval personnel were killed in an explosion on one of the country’s oldest destroyers at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, authorities said. The blast

The Taliban’s prime minister yesterday called on Muslim nations to be the first to officially recognise their government, as aid-dependent Afghanistan faces economic collapse. 

The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the UN, is scheduled to hold public hearings of the case concerning genocide against the Rohingyas in Myanmar, from February 21-28.

A Chinese couple who were trapped on a never-ending date thanks to a coronavirus lockdown have been relieved to find that love, not Covid-19, is in the air.

Housewife Maira Tayyab has considered begging for money to feed her family in inflation-hit Pakistan, while shop owner Mohammad Hanif finds his thoughts turning to crime.

The Indian government has shut down the Kashmir Press Club, prompting an outcry from journalists, politicians and others who called the move further evidence of efforts to silence critical reporting in the disputed territory.

Public trust in governments running the world’s democracies has fallen to new lows over their handling of the pandemic and amid a widespread sense of economic pessimism, a global survey has found. 

The airdrop operation by Indian Air Force in Tangail to prevent retreating Pakistani troops from reaching Dhaka in 1971 and the helicopter-borne campaign over Meghna river for faster movement of Indian soldiers to the Bangladesh capital are expected to be recreated as part of air shows during the Indian Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26.

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) today said it has seized 82 fake driving licences from truck drivers at the Petrapole Integrated Check Post, South Asia’s largest trade point, at the Benapole border with Bangladesh.

Indonesia's parliament has approved a bill to relocate the nation's capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan on Borneo, House Speaker Puan Maharani said on Tuesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday warned that confrontation between major powers could have “catastrophic consequences” in a speech to world leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum. 

India’s capital Delhi and financial hub Mumbai have reported a big fall in Covid-19 infections in the past two days and most of those who contracted the virus have recovered at home, authorities said yesterday.

Unresolved differences about engagement with Myanmar’s military rulers are causing discord among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), diplomats and government officials said, as a ministers’ meeting set for this week was pushed back.

China’s birth rate plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed yesterday, as analysts warn that faster-than-expected ageing could deepen economic growth concerns.

North Korea fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) yesterday from an airport in its capital city of Pyongyang, South Korea’s military reported, the fourth test this month to demonstrate its expanding missile arsenal.  

A couple from Tamil Nadu has announced to host their wedding reception virtually in Metaverse.

The birth rate in China plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed Monday, as analysts warn that faster-than-expected ageing could deepen economic growth concerns.

Eminent stage actress Shaoli Mitra, daughter of legendary theatre personalities Sambhu Mitra and Tripti Mitra, died at her residence in South Kolkata today of heart ailments at the age of 74.