At least 66 people have been killed in Nepal since early on Friday as persistent downpours triggered flooding and landslides, closing major roads and disrupting domestic air travel, officials said yesterday.

India yesterday withdrew its 14-month-long blanket ban on the export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect but imposed a minimum export price (MEP) of $490 per tonne.

Taiwan said yesterday it was on heightened alert after detecting “multiple waves” of missile firings in inland China, days after Beijing test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Gunmen killed seven workers in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan late on Saturday, police said.

At least six people were killed when a charter helicopter crashed in northern Pakistan on Saturday, security sources said

Japan’s next prime minister Shigeru Ishiba yesterday outlined his ideas to reshape the nation’s miliary alliance with Washington, after winning the conservative ruling party’s leadership race.

Five people were arrested in India for the killing of a seven-year-old boy in an alleged ritual sacrifice aimed at bringing good fortune to a public school, police said yesterday.

Myanmar’s junta carried out fresh air strikes on an opposition-held town yesterday, hours after issuing an unprecedented invitation to its enemies for talks on civil war.

Activists from several right-wing groups staged a protest in Kanpur today, where the India-Bangladesh cricket teams are playing their second Test match.

A Hong Kong court yesterday sentenced a former editor to jail for 21 months and immediately released another after they had earlier been found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious articles in a ruling that has prompted an international outcry.

At least 43 people, including 37 children, tragically drowned, and three others went missing while bathing in rivers and ponds as part of the "Jivitputrika" festival in Bihar, the state government announced today

China said it test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile yesterday, firing it into the Pacific Ocean in its first such exercise in decades.

Sri Lanka's new president called on Wednesday for restarting talks with the IMF "immediately" over a $2.9 billion bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt country but imposed painful austerity

Polling in the second phase of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority region, began today with long queues at several booths in all the 26 seats, officials said

Taiwan’s defence minister yesterday accused China of being the “number one country conducting daily cyberattacks” against the democratic island and denied allegations about Taipei-backed hackers targeting Beijing.

Japan lodged a “very serious protest” with Moscow after a Russian patrol plane entered its airspace three times, the defence minister said yesterday, calling it the first confirmed incursion since 2019.

India has invited political and military opponents of Myanmar’s ruling junta to attend a seminar in New Delhi, sources said, a significant move by the South Asian power that has maintained ties with the top generals shunned by Western nations.

Sri Lanka's leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on Monday, promising change in the island nation long led by powerful political families which is emerging from its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades

Dissanayake, popularly known as AKD, polled 1.27 million votes more than nearest rival and main opposition leader Sajith Premadasa. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe finished third.

Six people died after a car lost control and slammed into bikes and other vehicles on a bridge in central China's Hunan province early Monday morning, police said.