West Bengal actress Srabanti Chatterjee, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party before assembly polls in March-April this year, today quit the saffron party citing its "lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of West Bengal".

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grilled Prime Minister Imran Khan over the government's inaction against those responsible for the Army Public School (APS) attack in 2014 and the ongoing talks with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, got married on Tuesday in a small ceremony in Birmingham, central England, she announced on social media.

Heavy rains on Sri Lanka’s coast and in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have killed at least 25 people, destroyed thousands of homes and snarled traffic, authorities said.

India has sent thousands more paramilitary troops into its section of Kashmir, already one of the world’s most militarised zones, after a string of targeted killings by suspected rebels in recent weeks, officials said yesterday.

Up to 5,000 Afghan refugees a day are crossing into neighbouring Iran, compounding the already heavy burden it faces hosting an estimated 3.6 million Afghans, a relief group said yesterday.

Myanmar junta troops have clashed with fighters from a major militant group in Rakhine state, breaking a ceasefire that kept the peace in the western region since the coup, a rebel spokesman said yesterday.

Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama criticised the leaders of China yesterday saying they “don’t understand the variety of different cultures” there and there is too much control by the main Han ethnic group.

In a veiled message to Pakistan, top national security advisers of eight Asian countries today got together for the first time in New Delhi and called for a peaceful, secure and stable Afghanistan and non-interference in its internal affairs.

An American journalist detained in military-ruled Myanmar accused of incitement is facing new charges of sedition and terrorism, his lawyer said on Wednesday, in a setback for US efforts to secure his release.

Malala Yousafzai, the campaigner for girls' education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who survived being shot aged 15 by a Taliban gunman in her native Pakistan in 2012, has got married, she said on social media on Tuesday.

India is set to issue tourist visas from November 15 after a pause of 19 months for the global coronavirus pandemic, much to the cheer of Bangladeshis who account for the largest share of foreign tourist arrivals in the neighbouring country.

A Myanmar junta court will give its verdict next month on whether ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi broke coronavirus rules during elections her party won last year, a source said yesterday.

A librarian in Indonesia’s Java island is lending books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a novel way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.

China’s armed forces are capable of blockading Taiwan’s key harbours and airports, the island’s defence ministry said yesterday, offering its latest assessment of what it describes as a “grave” military threat posed by its giant neighbour.

Liberation War veteran Lt Col (retd) Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir yesterday received Padma Shri, one of India’s most prestigious civilian awards, in recognition of his contribution to public affairs.

In Taliban’s first news briefing since their return to power in Kabul, the group’s spokesperson said the new regime would be “positively different” from their 1996-2001 stint, which was infamous for deaths by stoning, girls being banned from school and women from working in contact with men.

India has told a gathering of navy chiefs and heads of maritime forces of 12 countries, including Bangladesh, that New Delhi will continue to oppose and deter the attempts of aggression on land and sea and also called for a collaborative effort in this regard.

Four of 40 infants in the newborn-care unit of a government hospital died in central India when a fire swept through the unit late on Monday, government officials said, the latest in a string of hospital fires in the country this year that have killed dozens.

At least 89 people, including 17 children, have tested positive for the Zika virus in a surge of cases in the Indian city of Kanpur, its health department said yesterday.