The West Bengal state legislative assembly today passed a resolution against the Indian government’s decision to extend the Border Security Force’s jurisdiction to conduct seize operations and make arrests. 

Market-stand owner Kadriye Dogru makes do with stale, sesame-covered bagels, known as simit, for lunch these days. The widowed mother of two says she goes without lunch so she can put food on the table for her family later in the day.

India has extended the ban imposed on Zakir Naik's organisation Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) by five years.

Thousands of children in the Philippines were allowed to return to classrooms yesterday for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as a pilot re-opening of schools got under way.

China is battling the spread of its biggest Covid-19 outbreak caused by the Delta variant, according to numbers announced yesterday, with travellers from a city where infections have grown faster than elsewhere in the country subject to tough quarantine rules in nearby areas.

US journalist Danny Fenster was “pardoned” before being deported from Myanmar where he had been sentenced to 11 years in jail and was to face further terror and sedition charges, the junta said yesterday.

The Taliban have launched a crackdown on suspected Islamic State hideouts in southern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, following an increase in bloody attacks by the group in recent weeks.

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are looking to sign a preferential trade agreement (PTA) as they seek to improve trade relations and connectivity, both via air and sea.

American journalist Danny Fenster was released from prison on Monday in military-ruled Myanmar and was on a flight out of the country, his employer said, three days after he was jailed for 11 years in a ruling that drew international condemnation.

Taliban forces held a military parade in Kabul on Sunday using captured American-made armoured vehicles and Russian helicopters in a display that showed their ongoing transformation from an insurgent force to a regular standing army.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind is scheduled to visit Bangladesh on December 16 and 17, to attend the Victory Day celebrations at the invitation of Bangladesh.

Expressing concern over reports that child marriage in Afghanistan is on the rise, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said the Covid-19 pandemic, the ongoing food crisis and the onset of winter have further exacerbated the situation for families.

ISIS militants detonated an explosive device on Saturday inside barracks of the Pakistani police in the district of Bajaur, the group said on Telegram.

Indian Army Chief Gen M M Naravane today embarked on a five-day visit to Israel to further strengthen India’s defence and security cooperation with the Jewish state.

A top Maoist leader was among 26 activists of the ultra-left group killed in an “encounter” with Indian police inside a dense forest in Maharashtra state’s Gadchiroli district yesterday, a senior police official said today.

A man prayed to Lord Hanuman’s idol before allegedly stealing a cash box from a temple in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said today after examining CCTV footage of the shrine premises.

A minibus was hit by a suspected bomb near a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul yesterday, witnesses said, although details of any casualties were not immediately known.

The Chief Justice of India yesterday asked the central government to come up with an emergency plan to tackle New Delhi’s toxic air quality and dangerous smog conditions, calling the situation “very serious”.

A bomb exploded on a mini-bus Saturday on a busy commercial street in a Kabul neighborhood mainly populated by members of Afghanistan’s minority Hazara community, emergency workers and the bus driver said. At least one person was killed and five wounded.

The Delhi government today ordered the closure of all schools in the Indian capital for a week from Monday and a halt to construction activities for four days from November 14 due to severe air pollution.