Heavily pregnant Sonari toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on Earth.

India today urged the international community to enhance support, financially and otherwise, for Bangladesh to cope with the humanitarian burden of hosting a million Rohingya refugees in its territory.

Leaders of prominent Islamic groups and mosques in India yesterday appealed to fellow Muslims to suspend plans for protests against derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) made by two members of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party.

Kolkata Police today summoned suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for questioning in connection with her controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Police in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland said 30 army soldiers were charged for killing tribal labourers mistaken for militants during an anti-insurgency operation last year.

Police in India’s Kashmir arrested a youth for posting a video threatening to behead a former spokesperson of India’s ruling party who had made derogatory remarks about Islam’s religious leader Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), officials said yesterday.

The leader of India’s main opposition party, Sonia Gandhi, has been admitted to hospital in New Delhi with health issues related to Covid-19, her Congress party said.

Fiji’s defence minister yesterday said that climate change posed the biggest security threat in the Asia-Pacific region, a shift in tone at a defence summit that has been dominated by the war in Ukraine and disputes between China and the United States.

China will “fight to the very end” to stop Taiwanese independence, the country’s defence minister vowed yesterday, stoking already soaring tensions with the United States over the island.

A bomb blast on a minibus killed at least four people and injured several others in the Afghan capital on Saturday, police said.

Authorities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have demolished the homes of several people accused of involvement in riots last week triggered by derogatory remarks made by ruling party figures about the Prophet Muhammad.

Sri Lanka may be compelled to buy more oil from Russia as the island nation hunts desperately for fuel amid an unprecedented economic crisis, the newly appointed prime minister said.

A lawyer in Jammu and Kashmir has filed a complaint before a court there, seeking punitive action against former BJP spokespersons Nupur Sharma, Navin Jindal and others for recent "blasphemous" remarks against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) .

Former BJP leader Naveen Kumar Jindal, who was expelled from the party following controversy over his remarks on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), has claimed that his family is in danger of being attacked by “Islamic fundamentalists”, according to NDTV.

Protests against former BJP leader Nupur Sharma’s controversial remarks against the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) spread to more areas of West Bengal state in India yesterday (June 11, 2022). Fresh bouts of violence were reported in Howrah district where 60 people were arrested on charges of rioting, attempt to murder and causing damage to public properties, police said.

North Korea has appointed veteran diplomat Choe Son-hui as its first female foreign minister, state media reported yesterday, as Pyongyang pushes ahead with a blitz of sanctions-busting weapons tests and ignores US calls for talks.

Indian police shot dead two protesters and arrested more than 130 others during street rallies sparked by a ruling party official’s remarks about the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), authorities told AFP yesterday.

A top US government official yesterday said there was “no chance” the Myanmar junta’s planned elections next year would be free and fair.

The West Bengal State Commission for Protection of Child Rights today sent a show-cause notice to the Pirzada of Furfura Sharif for using children in violent demonstrations over comments made by suspended BJP spokesperson on Prophet Muhammad (PUBH), after videos surfaced in social media on this.

A fresh bout of clashes broke out today between police and protesters of remarks by suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma on Prophet Muhammed (PUBH) for the second consecutive day in West Bengal's Howrah district.