The UN has said there are "credible allegations" of more than 100 extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in August, with most blamed on the country's new rulers.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, terming him as the guiding light for the people of his country.

Bangladesh is above only Afghanistan among South Asian countries in Covid-19 vaccination, according to data of Asian Development Bank (ADB) Outlook Supplement as of December 2 this year.

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with monitors briefly warning of the possibility of hazardous tsunami waves before lifting the threat.

South and North Korea, China and the US have agreed “in principle” to declare a formal end to the Korean war, almost 70 years after the conflict ended in a shaky truce, the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has said.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said yesterday he’s sleeping soundly after becoming the first premier in nine years to inhabit the official residence, which is reputedly haunted by ghosts.

Two Jammu and Kashmir armed police personnel have died, and 12 have been injured after two terrorists attacked a police bus near a police camp at Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar yesterday evening, police said.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) yesterday dropped a passage from its Class ten board exams question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it as “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today dropped a passage from its class 10 board exam question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.

Taiwan's Defense Ministry said in its latest threat assessment Monday that a full Chinese invasion of Taiwan with troops landed and ports and airports seized would be very difficult to achieve.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was hacked yesterday with a message declaring his country had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens.

Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971 is a “classic example” of India’s morals, democratic traditions and just treatment, and Bangladesh has -- in the last half a century -- moved forward on the path of development, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said today.

India’s Punjab state government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the federal government’s decision that extended the Border Security Force's jurisdiction to undertake search, seizure and arrest within a 50km stretch from the international border in Assam, West Bengal and Punjab, as compared to the earlier 15km.

A Pakistani policeman was shot dead and another officer was hurt while guarding a polio vaccination team yesterday, police said, in an attack claimed by the local Taliban a day after they called off a ceasefire with the government.

Indian police have recovered a stolen watch customised for star footballer Diego Maradona and arrested a suspect behind the alleged theft in Dubai, officials claimed Saturday.

A citizen of Myanmar on Friday pleaded guilty in a plot to attack or kill the country’s pro-democracy UN ambassador, who has refused junta orders to quit, US officials said.

Two people were killed and four wounded in separate bomb explosions Friday in Kabul, the Taliban government said, as the Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility.

The South Korean city of Busan has green-lit plans for an ambitious new ocean settlement, with work on the first neighborhood set to begin next year.

Agra, the city of Taj Mahal, was today the venue of an emotional trek down the memory lane for five retired officers of the Indian army who took part in the famous Tangail air drop by the army’s 2nd parachute battalion which cut off the retreat of Pakistani troops from the north towards Dhaka during the Liberation War on this day, half a century ago.

India has detected 25 cases of the emergent Omicron variant of the coronavirus and all have shown mild symptoms, the health ministry said yesterday, adding that there was no immediate plan to authorise vaccine boosters.