Two pilots have been killed in India after a Soviet-era fighter jet crashed during a training sortie, the air force said, heightening safety concerns after a string of incidents involving the aircraft.

A grenade blast during a match at Afghanistan's main cricket stadium wounded four spectators and briefly halted the game on Friday, officials and police said.

Google recently blocked access to Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), the Indian version of popular multiplayer game PUBG, citing an order from the Indian government.

Malaysia’s lawmakers on Thursday (July 28) unanimously passed a landmark Bill to curb party hopping, more than two years after defections collapsed the Pakatan Harapan (PH) federal government and set off a period of political instability.

The proceedings in the Lok Sabha, lower House of Indian parliament, were adjourned for the day today (July 29, 2022) amid uproar and protests by opposition and BJP members over senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's controversial remark about India’s first Santal President Droupadi Murmu.

The Philippines on Friday (July 29, 2022) reported its first case of monkeypox.

A two-seater MiG-21 trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed during a training session at an air base in Rajasthan, leaving two pilots dead on Thursday (July 28) evening.

Six days after his arrest, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee yesterday sacked Partha Chatterjee from her cabinet and suspended him from all party posts.

Three foreign climbers are missing and feared dead on Pakistan’s treacherous Karakorum mountain range in the country’s far north, an official said yesterday.

India, which is trying to expand its influence in Sri Lanka amid the island’s economic troubles and is worried that China is also making inroads, yesterday said it

At least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalised in western India after drinking toxic alcohol, police said yesterday, with authorities

The UN Security Council has condemned the Myanmar junta’s execution of four prisoners, drawing praise yesterday from a shadow government of ousted

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country was “ready to mobilise” its nuclear deterrent in any future military clash with the United States and South Korea, state media said yesterday.

A man with alleged links to Bangladesh-based militant group Ansar al Islam was arrested from Morigaon district in India’s Assam where he runs a madrasa, police said today (July 28, 2022).

India’s top opposition leader and Congress Acting President Sonia Gandhi today (July 28, 2022) got involved in a major spat with BJP leaders, including federal minister Smriti Irani, at the Lok Sabha.

As Europe braces for energy shortages from Russian gas cuts, Japan's own energy crisis a decade ago offers survival lessons to households and businesses - such as dimming the lights and taking the stairs.

At least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalised in western India after drinking toxic alcohol, police said on Thursday, with authorities ordering a crackdown on bootleggers.

Singapore has extended a short-stay visa for Sri Lanka’s deposed president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country on July 13, local media in the city-state reported yesterday.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least four people in the northern Philippines yesterday, toppling buildings, and shaking high-rise towers more than 300 kilometres away in the capital Manila.

Pakistan’s top court has ruled to hand control of the country’s most populous province, Punjab, to a candidate backed by ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, triggering fresh political uncertainty in the South Asian nation amidst a crippling economic crisis.