UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Taliban to immediately halt their offensive in Afghanistan, and warned that “Afghanistan is spinning out of control.” 

One woman was dead and two people were missing on Saturday after torrential rains touched off a landslide and engulfed at least two houses in western Japan, with rivers overflowing their banks as rain continued to pound the area

India’s Madras High Court has recently quashed the deportation of a Bangladeshi man.

Brac International is relocating 14 expatriate staff members, including 12 Bangladeshis, from Afghanistan amidst escalating violence and volatile environment where the Taliban is closing in to take control of the country.

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani said he was in urgent talks with local leaders and international partners as Taliban rebels pushed closer to Kabul, capturing a key town south of the capital that is one of the gateways to the city.

The Taliban pushed closer to Kabul on Saturday, capturing a key city near Afghanistan's capital as American troops flew in to help evacuate embassy personnel and other civilians.

A day ahead of India’s 75th Independence Day, the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said August 14 would be observed as “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” in memory of the struggles and sacrifices of the people.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called on the Taliban to immediately halt their offensive in Afghanistan, and warned that "Afghanistan is spinning out of control."

The Taliban seized more major cities yesterday as they raced to take full control of Afghanistan and inched closer to Kabul, with the United States and Britain deploying thousands of troops to evacuate their citizens from the capital. 

At least 2,000 people were evacuated yesterday after a massive landslide in India’s ecologically fragile Himalayan north blocked a major river, officials said. 

1945 - Japan accepted the Allies’ terms of unconditional surrender, ending World War Two.

Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India’s main opposition party, slammed Twitter yesterday for blocking a tweet over the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, saying the platform was playing partisan politics.

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin made a plea yesterday to opposition lawmakers to support him in an upcoming confidence vote, in a bid to shore up his government and prevent an election amid a resurgence in Covid-19 infections.

At least 21 people died as heavy downpours struck central China’s Hubei province, authorities said yesterday, weeks after record floods wreaked havoc and killed hundreds in a neighbouring province. 

The Afghan government should engage with the Taliban to reach an inclusive settlement, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday as the militant group made rapid gains amid spiralling violence and worries of a refugee crisis.

The Taliban claimed control over two of Afghanistan's biggest cities on Thursday, according to media reports, as the United States and Britain said they would send thousands of troops to help evacuate their embassy staff.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the United States of seeing his country as useful only in the context of the “mess” it is leaving behind in Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting.

India’s opposition leaders yesterday held a protest march towards Vijay Chowk from Parliament against an abrupt end to the monsoon session and a repeal of the Centre’s three farm laws.

The Afghanistan government has made a power-sharing proposal to the Taliban in exchange for a halt in the escalating violence in the country, media reports said yesterday, as the insurgents seized the strategic cities of Ghazni, just 150 kilometres from Kabul, and Herat, the country’s third-largest city. 

An Indian rocket carrying a powerful earth observation satellite failed to fire fully yesterday, the state-run space agency said, in a setback for the country’s space programme,