Against the backdrop of the arrest of her former cabinet colleague, Partha Chatterjee, in a school recruitment scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today (August 1, 2022) announced that a reshuffle of her ministry would be carried out on Wednesday.

The head of Myanmar's junta on Monday (August 1, 2022) blamed instability for stalling efforts to implement a peace plan agreed with other Southeast Asian countries as he extended emergency rule for another six months.

Indian state of Kerala has reported the first monkeypox-related death in the country. 

A Japanese man has been detained in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon, an official at Japan’s embassy confirmed yesterday, the latest foreigner ensnared in the junta-ruled nation.

Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos, who oversaw a rare period of steady growth and peace that won him the reputation as one of the country’s most effective leaders ever, has died aged 94, his family said yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s new president Ranil Wickremesinghe has formally invited MPs to join an all-party unity government to revive the bankrupt economy by undertaking painful reforms, his office said yesterday.

Sri Lanka's new president Ranil Wickremesinghe has formally invited MPs to join an all-party unity government to revive the bankrupt economy by undertaking painful reforms, his office said on Sunday (July 31).

China will “resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” an air force spokesman was quoted by state media as saying on Sunday.

Police yesterday said they arrested a Sri Lankan trade union leader who allegedly took two official flags from the deposed president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s palace and used them as a bedsheet and a sarong.

Two people were killed in the grenade explosion that shook Kabul’s main cricket stadium during a domestic league match on Friday, police said yesterday, updating their previous casualty toll.

India will ground all its Soviet-era Russian fighter jets, the MiG-21, by 2025, following the death of two officers in a crash, the latest in a series of casualties involving the single-engine jet’s failure, a newspaper reported yesterday.

A special court in Lahore yesterday summoned Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz on September 7 for the framing of charges in a Rs16 billion money laundering case registered against them by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

China accused the United States of double standards at the United Nations on Friday for challenging Beijing’s sovereignty over Taiwan while emphasizing the principle of sovereignty for Ukraine after Russian forces invaded.

Sri Lanka’s president said Saturday that an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to help pull the bankrupt nation out of its economic crisis has been pushed back to September because of unrest over the past weeks.

The Taliban on Saturday raised the casualty toll from a hand grenade explosion during a cricket game in the capital of Kabul the previous day, saying two civilians at the stadium died from the blast.

India’s opposition Congress party has planned to march to the Rashtrapati Bhawan (Indian President’s official residence) from the parliament and then besiege the Prime Minister’s official residence on August 5 as part of its nationwide protest against price hike.

Kolkata port today (July 30, 2022) began the first of four trial runs towards the full implementation of an agreement on India’s use of Chattogram and Mongla ports in Bangladesh for trade, according to a top official of the port.

The death toll from a major earthquake in the northern Philippines rose to 10 yesterday after another four bodies were found in rubble, authorities said, as

The World Bank said yesterday it would not offer new funding to Sri Lanka unless the bankrupt island nation carried out “deep structural reforms” to stabilise its crashing economy.

China yesterday said it hoped “relevant parties” would refrain from interfering with its legitimate maritime activities, after New Delhi voiced concern over a Chinese military ship’s planned visit to a port in India’s southern neighbour Sri Lanka.