Heavy monsoon rains and landslides have killed almost 50 people in Nepal and India in recent days, authorities said yesterday.

A bus crash killed 27 people and injured a further 20 when the vehicle rolled over on a highway in southwest China's mountainous Guizhou province, local police said in a statement on Sunday.

Thousands of people were in shelters in southwestern Japan on Sunday as powerful Typhoon Nanmadol churned towards the region, prompting authorities to urge nearly three million residents to evacuate.

Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India yesterday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted big cats.

A landslide triggered by heavy rains killed at least 14 people and injured seven in western Nepal, officials said yesterday, as rescue workers searched the disaster site to try to find a further 10 missing people.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said the government is trying to resolve the issues with Myanmar peacefully and diplomatically but a complaint will be lodged to the United Nations regarding mortar shelling at the border if necessary.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has protested the killing of a Rohingya youth and injuring four others in Bandarban's Naikhongchhari upazila last night (September 16, 2022).

Seven decades after they went extinct in India, the country today got eight cheetahs who were flown in from Namibia for conservation and promotion of the feline in a national park.

The Chinese city of Chongqing reported one case of the monkeypox virus infection on Friday in an individual who arrived from abroad, marking mainland China's first known monkeypox infection amid the recent global outbreak of the virus.

Indian city of Varanasi, parliamentary constituency of the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been selected as the first-ever tourism and cultural capital of nine-nation security grouping Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) for 2022-2023.

China has blocked a proposal by the US and India at the United Nations to blacklist top Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Sajid Mir, one of India’s most wanted terrorists and the main handler of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 175 people dead.

Kyrgyzstan reported "intense battles" with Central Asian neighbour Tajikistan on Friday and said 24 people had been killed in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the former Soviet Union.

Heavy rains flooded hundreds of homes, knocked out power and collapsed structures including a wall that crushed 12 people in northern India, officials said Friday. 

President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to provide more than 300,000 tonnes of Russian fertilisers stuck in European ports to the developing world for

Adani briefly became the world’s second-richest person on the Forbes real-time billionaire tracker on Friday, weeks after becoming the first Asian to break into

Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation called for a “balance” between reducing carbon emissions and allowing poorer states to catch up with economically developed countries in a joint statement on climate change adopted yesterday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday told Russian President Vladimir Putin that now was “not a time for war” on the sidelines of a regional summit, television images showed.

A Rohingya youth was killed and four others were injured in mortar shells blast fired from Myanmar in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban today (September 16, 2022).

A Bangladeshi youth was severely wounded in a landmine explosion in the Myanmar side of the Bangladesh border along Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban today (September 16, 2022).

The UN Human Rights Office has called out to countries to do more to cut the Myanmar military’s access to revenue and arms supply to halt its repression of the people.