Armenia said yesterday that the number of its soldiers killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan had risen to three, in the most serious outbreak of fighting between the ex-Soviet adversaries in months.

An Indian student of Jashore Ad-din Sakina Medical College and Hospital was found dead in a dormitory bathroom of the college yesterday.

China has accelerated settlement-building along its disputed border with Bhutan, with more than 200 structures, including two-storey buildings,

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for boosting the country’s strategic military forces as he observed the test of a hypersonic missile, state

Inflation in China eased in December thanks to falling food and commodity costs, with analysts saying Wednesday’s figures give policymakers room to unveil measures to kickstart the stuttering economy including interest rate cuts.

Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed fears on Tuesday that the government would have to go to the Interna­tional Monetary Fund (IMF) again if the country’s exports did not increase sharply.

North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea yesterday, with South Korea’s military warning the second such weapons test in less than a week showed clear signs of progress.

Legendary playback singer Lata Mangeshkar has been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai after she tested positive for Covid-19, PTI reported quoting her niece Rachna and doctors. She has mild symptoms.

The daily count of Covid-19 infections in Delhi rose to 21,259 taking the total caseload to nearly 16 lakh as authorities ordered closure of all private offices, except those in exempted categories in view of the sharp uptick in cases.

Afghanistan’s ambassador to China left a colourful resignation note for his post-Taliban takeover successor yesterday -- revealing that staff had not been paid for months and that a lone receptionist had been left to answer phones.

A Myanmar junta court yesterday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader, a source familiar with the proceedings said.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday said the Narendra Modi-led government was “a real and present threat to peace” in the region, adding that all minorities in India were at the target of extremist groups operating under the patronage of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

A suspected Bangladeshi cow smuggler was killed in a clash with the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Malda district and at least 17 Indian policemen were injured in a separate faceoff with cow smugglers along the border with Bangladesh Cooch Behar district’s Mekhliganj area in West Bengal.

India’s National Investigation Agency has filed a charge sheet against four Bangladeshi and one Indian operative of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) over their alleged involvement in radicalisation of Muslim youth and their recruitment by either JMB or Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), an NIA official said today.

What's in a name? For Indian travel start-up founder Kovid Kapoor, it has made him a social media sensation.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's official visit to Myanmar, his meeting with the self-declared State Administration Council leader Min Aung Hlaing, and their joint press statement, are a "brazen and dangerous" attempt to seize the initiative away from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN's) collective approach to the crisis in Myanmar, says a rights body today.

A Myanmar junta court on Monday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader.

An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday. 

India reported 159,632 new Covid-19 cases and 327 new deaths yesterday, as the Omicron variant continues to spread rapidly in the country, nudging several state governments to impose fresh restrictions.

A prominent Afghan university professor who openly criticised the Taliban’s hardline regime has been arrested in Kabul, a spokesman for the government said.