Sri Lanka's new prime minister said on Monday the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country's power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-government protests.

For the first time, Pakistan’s remittances crossed the figure of $3 billion in a month, which gave hope that the country would achieve its annual remittance target of $30bn.

Sri Lankan authorities lifted a nationwide curfew yesterday for an important Buddhist festival, but celebrations were muted as the island nation’s new premier struggled to find his footing and tackle a worsening economic crisis. 

A suicide bomber killed three children, age between 4 and 11, and three soldiers in an attack on a military vehicle in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan,

Doctor-turned-politician Manik Saha was today sworn in as the chief minister of north eastern Indian state of Tripura, a day after Biplab Deb stepped down amid feud in the party.

Sri Lanka lifted a nationwide curfew for 12 hours yesterday, further easing tight curbs as new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made first his cabinet appointments after clashes between pro- and anti-government groups killed nine people.

Chief Minister of India’s BJP-ruled Tripura state Biplab Kumar Deb yesterday resigned from the post amidst serious infighting in the party’s state unit one year ahead of fresh assembly elections there.

Sri Lanka's main opposition party joined anti-government protesters on Friday in rejecting the appointment of a new prime minister and insisted the president resign to take responsibility for the country's disastrous economic crisis.

India today indicated that it would not allow the food security of its South Asian neighbours to be hit by the ban imposed on exports of wheat and that the measure was a temporary one.

India’s ruling BJP today effected a change of top leadership in the north eastern state of Tripura as Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb today resigned and replaced by Manik Saha amidst serious infighting in the party’s state unit one year ahead of fresh assembly elections there.

Chief Minister of India’s BJP-ruled Tripura state Biplab Kumar Deb today resigned from the post amidst serious infighting in the party’s state unit one year ahead of fresh assembly elections.

Sri Lanka’s new prime minister yesterday struggled to forge a unity government and forestall an imminent economic collapse as opposition lawmakers refused to join his cabinet and demanded fresh elections.

Twenty-seven people died and dozens more were injured in a massive fire in a building in the Indian capital New Delhi yesterday, emergency services said.

The Group of Seven industrialised nations condemned the growing restrictions placed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan, accusing the hardline Islamist group of isolating the country.

At least one person confirmed to have Covid-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media

At least 26 people were dead and more than 60 received burn injuries in a fire near a metro rail station in Delhi on Friday (May 13, 2022), Delhi Fire Services chief Atul Garg said.

Bangladesh and India have stated their desire to collaborate on societal applications of radiation technologies in the areas like cancer care, nuclear medicine and food preservation.

Top officials of Archaeological Survey of India have said that the contention in the petition filed with Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench seeking opening of the 22 locked rooms of Taj Mahal is “factually incorrect,” reports Times of India.

Sri Lanka's new prime minister was struggling Friday to forge a unity government and forestall an imminent economic collapse after a senior opposition figure refused to helm the finance ministry.

The two virtuoso classical musicians may have done ‘jugalbandi’ several times but in the end, death left one of them a forlorn figure.