As the war in Ukraine pushes up wheat prices and a weaker peso raises the cost of imported edible oil, many Philippine bakers are shrinking the size of a popular breakfast roll to cope with higher inflation.

A 34-year-old man in Delhi with no history of foreign travel has tested positive for monkeypox virus, making it the fourth case of the infection in India and the first in the national capital.

West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee, a trusted aide of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was arrested yesterday in connection with an alleged scam relating to the recruitment of teachers in government schools.

International human rights groups have urged Sri Lanka’s new president to immediately order security forces to cease all unlawful use of force against protesters, who have been demonstrating over the country’s economic meltdown.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and 10 cabinet ministers survived no-confidence votes in parliament yesterday, with the government

Protests have been held in major cities across Pakistan to denounce what they called a “theft” of the mandate of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party in the Punjab provincial assembly.

The death toll from more than five weeks of monsoon rains and flash flooding across Pakistan has reached 304, authorities said Saturday.

India’s forex reserves fell by $7.5 billion to $572.7 billion – a 20-month low – as of July 15, due to spiraling costs of imports, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said.

The suspected assassin of Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will undergo psychiatric evaluation until later this year, Japanese media reported on Saturday.

Industry and Commerce Minister of India’s West Bengal and Trinamool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee was arrested today.

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a sympathy message to his United States counterpart Joe Biden yesterday, a day after the 79-year-old US leader tested positive for Covid-19.

Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared the main protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early yesterday, fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in.

Japan's nuclear regulators have approved a plan to release into the ocean water from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, the government said on Friday.

India’s Border Security Force today (July 22, 2022) claimed to have made the biggest seizure of gold weighing 41.49 kg worth nearly Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers in the Ichhamati River along the border with Bangladesh.

World Court judges on Friday (July 22) dismissed objections by Myanmar to a genocide case brought against it for its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority, paving the way for the case to proceed.

Senior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, his office said, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the Indian Ocean nation grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.

Droupadi Murmu was elected India’s 15th president yesterday with the backing of the ruling party, making her the first person from a marginalised community to occupy the top post.

The world’s longest-living male giant panda under human care, An An, has died at the age of 35, the Hong Kong zoo where he spent most of his life said yesterday.

Director General (DG) of India’s Border Security Force Pankaj Kumar Singh yesterday justified border killings, saying all Bangladeshis killed on the border were criminals.

A 47-year-old Nepali sherpa has set a climbing record by scaling all the world’s 14 peaks that are higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) for a second time, his