China staged fresh military drills around Taiwan yesterday, slamming a new visit by United States lawmakers to the island days after a similar trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi triggered a furious response from Beijing.

On June 11 this year, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the headquarters of the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe). It was a significant step in the operationalization of reforms launched by the Government of India to promote private sector participation in India’s space sector, providing access to space assets, data and facilities, which were hitherto entirely with the government entity, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

The United States will boost trade with Taiwan in response to China’s “provocative” behaviour, the White House said Friday, as it insisted on the right of air and sea passage through the tense strait.

Myanmar’s ruling junta has moved to restrict political parties from meeting foreigners or international organisations ahead of an election expected next year.

Indian administered Kashmir yesterday sacked four government employees, citing their involvement in activities “prejudicial to the interests of the security of the state”.

Several regions of China including the major southwestern city of Chongqing baked in temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) yesterday, while the country’s national observatory continued its red alert for extreme heat.

Sri Lanka’s government yesterday granted permission for a controversial Chinese research vessel to visit the island despite neighbouring India’s concerns that it could spy on New Delhi’s military installations, officials said.

Pakistani authorities on Friday revoked a broadcast permit for a private television station after it was taken off air following an interview during which an opposition party official allegedly incited troops and officers against the military leadership.

Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin said she was worried after the stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie in New York and said if this can happen to him in the west, then anyone critical of Islam can be attacked.

Taliban fighters beat women protesters and fired into the air on Saturday (August 13, 2022) as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of the hardline Islamists' return to power.

India said yesterday it opposed any unilateral change to the status quo over Taiwan but that its stance on the ‘one-China’ policy remained consistent, days after Beijing said it hoped New Delhi would continue to recognise its claim to self-governing Taiwan.

An Australian economist and former adviser to deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded not guilty in a closed Myanmar court to charges of violating a state secrets law, according to media reports yesterday.

The heir and de facto leader of the Samsung group received a presidential pardon yesterday, continuing South Korea’s long tradition of freeing business leaders convicted of corruption on economic grounds.

Ten Chinese aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait’s median line, an unofficial barrier between China and Taiwan, yesterday, the Taiwanese defence ministry said.

Almost 60 percent of Afghanistan’s journalists have lost their jobs or fled the country since the Taliban takeover a year ago, according to a survey published yesterday by Reporters Without Borders.

Two Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested by Kolkata police from the iconic Victoria Memorial premises in central Kolkata for allegedly flying a drone without permission in the area.

China and Nepal have agreed to build the so-called Trans-Himalayan Multi-Dimensional Connectivity Network, the Chinese foreign ministry said,

Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday left Singapore where he had taken refuge following his escape from protesters at home, after he

China’s threat of force is undiminished, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday, even though Beijing’s largest ever military drills around the island seemed to be scaling down.

Militants attacked an Indian army post in the disputed Kashmir region yesterday, killing three soldiers, while two attackers died in the shootout that came amid heightened security ahead of India’s independence day celebrations.