Army helicopters flew sorties over cut-off areas in Pakistan’s mountainous north yesterday and rescue parties fanned out across waterlogged plains in the south as misery mounted for millions trapped by the worst floods in the country’s history.

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was in hospital Wednesday (August 31, 2022) after testing positive for coronavirus for the first time.

Taiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone which buzzed an offshore islet on Tuesday shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan's military to take "strong countermeasures" against what she termed Chinese provocations.

The United Nations yesterday appealed for $160 million to help Pakistan as army helicopters rescued stranded families and dropped food packages into inaccessible areas following “epochal” rains and flooding.z

India’s Supreme Court today (August 30, 2022) drew curtains on cases relating to two key sensitive issues – Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 and the Gujarat riots in 2002 – which embroiled the country’s politics for decades.

On August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed along with most of his family members and a government of turncoats was installed in power.

Delhi was the least safe metropolitan city for women in India in the year 2021, according to the latest official data.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will on Tuesday slash defence and other expenditures in a bid to win International Monetary Fund (IMF) support as he presents his first budget since taking over as leader of his crisis-hit country.

As India’s capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80 percent of pollutants.

India has accused China of “militarisation of the Taiwan Strait”, in an escalating war of words triggered by a Chinese military ship docking in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port.

Tens of millions of people across swathes of Pakistan were battling the worst monsoon floods in a decade yesterday, with countless homes washed away, vital farmland destroyed, and the country’s main river threatening to burst its banks.

A new work pass - the Overseas Networks and Expertise Pass - will be open for applications from Jan 1 next year, to attract top talent across all sectors.

As India's capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80 percent of pollutants.

India likely recorded strong double-digit economic growth in the last quarter but economists polled by Reuters expected the pace to more than halve this quarter and slow further toward the end of the year as interest rates rise.

Afghan defence minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid yesterday accused Pakistan of providing airspace for US drones to enter his country, characterising the incursions as a continuation of Washington’s “invasion”. Mujahid’s comments came less than a month after US President Joe Biden announced the killing of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul.

Pakistan’s flooded southern Sindh province yesterday braced for a fresh deluge from swollen rivers in the north as the death toll from this year’s monsoon topped 1,000.

Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe.”

Two mortar shells from Myanmar side were fired across the border today (August 28, 2022) at Tumbru area under Bandarban's Naikhyangchhari upazila creating panic among locals.

Indian authorities demolished two illegally constructed skyscrapers in a wide plume of dust debris on Sunday near the capital New Delhi, razing the tallest structures ever pulled down in the country in less than 10 seconds.

Pakistan witnessed another day of deaths and devastation yesterday as dozens of people were left dead and thousands stranded as a result of landslides and floods in the country’s north amid “high to very high” floods in Kabul and Indus rivers.