The first person charged under Hong Kong’s national security law was found guilty yesterday of terrorism and inciting secession in a landmark case that carries long-term implications for how the legislation will reshape the city’s common law traditions. 

Antibodies triggered by Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine declined below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, although a third shot had a strong booster effect, according to a lab study.

A Harappan-era city in the Rann of Kutch in western Indian state of Gujarat, was today declared India’s 40th Unesco World Heritage site.

Journalists from several media outlets covering recent floods in China were harassed online and by local residents, with staff from the BBC and Los Angeles Times receiving death threats, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC).

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh police arrested three persons today, including the gang leader, responsible for trafficking women and children from Bangladesh and Myanmar to India with forged documents.

The Indian Home Ministry told the parliament that it has sought six more months till January 9, 2022, to frame rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

North and South Korea have restored suspended communication channels between them and their leaders agreed to improve ties, both governments said Tuesday, despite a 2 ½ year-stalemate in US-led diplomacy aimed at stripping North Korea of its nuclear weapons.

Rescuers waded through waist-deep mud in western India yesterday to reach injured residents and start a massive clean-up after heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and floods that killed 159 people.

Myanmar’s junta yesterday cancelled the results of 2020 polls won by Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, announcing they were not “free and fair” almost six months after deposing the Nobel laureate in a coup.

Rancour marked the start of yesterday’s talks between Beijing and the highest-level US envoy to visit under President Joe Biden’s administration, as Beijing urged Washington to stop “demonising” China while the US made a “forceful” case against China’s human rights violations.

Six police officers from Assam were killed in the fresh violence that broke out yesterday at the disputed Assam-Mizoram border, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said.

Thailand reported a record number of coronavirus cases yesterday, while Malaysia has notched up more than 1 million infections, as the virulent Delta variant carves a deadly path through Southeast Asia - now a global epicentre for the virus.

“... I hope this small step will wake up others. We want it to start as soon as possible. Many people from Bengal have been tapped.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday announced the setting up a committee comprising retired judges Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya to probe the Pegasus spyware controversy.

At least six personnel of Assam Police were killed in firing by miscreants from neighbouring Mizoram today as the border dispute between the two adjacent north eastern Indian states took an unprecedented violent turn.

India is proud of its pluralistic traditions and happy to discuss the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit beginning on Tuesday, foreign ministry sources said after Washington said he planned to raise New Delhi's human rights record.

India has no plan to print new banknotes to tide over the economic fallout triggered by Covid-19, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the parliament today.

Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi rode a tractor to the parliament today -- protesting the three contentious farm laws.

Al Qaeda is present in at least 15 Afghan provinces, primarily in the eastern, southern and southeastern regions, says a United Nations report prepared for the Security Council.

Malaysia’s Parliament reopened Monday for the first time this year after a seven-month suspension due to a coronavirus emergency that has failed to curb a worsening pandemic.