Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday approved the extension of a state of emergency for a month, as police said two activists who helped lead mass demonstrations that toppled the country’s president were arrested on unlawful assembly charges.

Singapore has extended a short-stay visa for Sri Lanka’s deposed president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country on July 13, local media in the city-state reported yesterday.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least four people in the northern Philippines yesterday, toppling buildings, and shaking high-rise towers more than 300 kilometres away in the capital Manila.

Pakistan’s top court has ruled to hand control of the country’s most populous province, Punjab, to a candidate backed by ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, triggering fresh political uncertainty in the South Asian nation amidst a crippling economic crisis.

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the northern Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday killing four people, damaging buildings and sending strong tremors through the capital, Manila.

A young man in Jammu and Kashmir’s remote Bandipora district has successfully handwritten the Holy Quran on a 500-metre-long paper scroll.

India’s Supreme Court has dismissed petitions by private tour operators seeking exemption from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for the Hajj and Umrah tours they offer.

Sri Lanka will restrict fuel imports for the next 12 months because of a severe shortage of foreign exchange, its energy minister said yesterday, as the island nation’s new government seeks to find a way out of a crippling economic crisis.

Myanmar’s ruling military yesterday defended its execution of four democracy activists as “justice for the people”, brushing off a deluge of international condemnation including from its closest neighbours.

Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was released by the Delhi Police almost over six hours after he was detained during his party’s march from Parliament to Rashtrapati Bhawan, officials said yesterday. 

Taiwan simulated intercepting Chinese attacks from the sea in annual war games yesterday, with President Tsai Ing-wen hailing the military’s “determination” as she watched from onboard a destroyer.

Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s opposition party Congress, was detained today after he led a protest and sat on a road in the heart of India’s capital New Delhi while his mother Sonia Gandhi was being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate, reports NDTV.

BJP leader and Chief Minister of the northern Indian state Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar, has said that India, Bangladesh and Pakistan can unite again like West and East Germany.

Entire wards are dark and nearly empty in Sri Lanka's largest hospital, its few remaining patients leaving untreated and still in pain, and doctors prevented from even arriving for their shifts.

US Army Apache attack helicopters stationed in South Korea are holding live-fire drills with guns and rockets, the US military said yesterday, as

Sri Lanka will restrict fuel imports for the next 12 months because of a severe shortage of foreign exchange, its energy minister said yesterday,

Japan yesterday confirmed its first case of monkeypox, detected in a man in his 30s who had travelled overseas, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike

Myanmar’s ruling military has executed four democracy activists accused of helping to carry out “terror acts”, it said yesterday, sparking widespread condemnation of the Southeast Asian nation’s first executions in decades.

India’s first president from a marginalised Santal community, Droupadi Murmu, said yesterday after being sworn in that her election was an “achievement of every poor person in the country”.

Cities across China were on red alert for heatwaves yesterday, as tens of millions of people were warned to stay indoors and record temperatures strained energy supply.