Sri Lanka’s state-run petroleum company has run out of cash to buy oil, and fuel shortages across the country could get worse, the energy minister said yesterday. 

Myanmar’s military junta is to take part in hearings at the top United Nations court in The Hague next week despite a complaint from political opponents that this could give it international recognition without legal standing. 

An Indian court sentenced 38 people to death yesterday over a string of bomb blasts in 2008 that killed dozens in the city of Ahmedabad, in one of the country’s biggest mass death sentences. 

India has complained to Singapore about a remark its prime minister made on the number of Indian parliamentarians facing criminal charges, an Indian official said yesterday, in a rare instance of friction between the Asian allies. 

Sri Lanka’s High Court yesterday acquitted two top officials accused of “crimes against humanity” for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people. 

Hong Kong parents rushed children as young as 3 years old to vaccination centres this week as the government lowered the age limit for the shots and the deaths of two toddlers exacerbated concerns in a city struggling to cope with a Covid-19 surge.

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) handed over an Indian girl, who was detained by Tentulia police yesterday near the border for trespassing into Bangladesh, after a company commander-level flag meeting with India's Border Security force (BSF) this afternoon. 

A special court in India today sentenced to death 38 out of the 49 convicts in the serial blast case in Ahmedabad that left 56 people dead and more than 200 others injured nearly 14 years ago.

Pakistan’s military has stepped up operations along the Afghan border in recent weeks after a spate of militant attacks that has dashed any hope the frontier might see more peace and stability after the end of the war in Afghanistan.

A special Southeast Asian envoy to the crisis in Myanmar yesterday said he was seeking to visit the country next month and appealed to its military junta to give its blessing for him to talk with a shadow government it has labelled “terrorists”.

The Saudi Arabian army chief paid a “historic and landmark” first visit to India this week, according to a press release from the Indian Ministry of Defence.

T Kumar, a veteran photojournalist working for United News of India (UNI), died by suicide at the agency’s Chennai bureau office after he was reportedly deprived of salary for 60 months.

In a first-ever visit to India by a serving Royal Saudi Land Forces Commander, Lt Gen Fahd Bin Abdullah Mohammed Al-Mutair wrapped up a three-day tour -- from February 14 -- that New Delhi says gave a major boost to expanding bilateral military cooperation.

Liton Bhumij’s family in Bangladesh had begun to lose hope of finding the 25-year-old with special needs, when an activist found him at a tea garden in Assam’s Cachar -- years after Liton accidentally entered Indian territory in 2017.

Thirteen people including women and children died after accidentally falling into a well during a wedding ceremony in India’s Uttar Pradesh last evening.

Indian tax officials yesterday conducted searches at the offices of Chinese tech giant Huawei, the firm said, days after New Delhi banned a host of Chinese apps over national security concerns.

China’s factory-gate inflation eased to its slowest pace in six months and consumer price growth also softened in January amid weakening property sector demand, new coronavirus curbs and government efforts to rein in surging materials costs.

Schools reopened in southern India under tight security yesterday with public gatherings banned following protests over Muslim girls wearing the hijab in classrooms.

North Korea marked the 80th birthday of leader Kim Jong Un’s late father with a mass outdoor meeting in sub-zero temperatures, state media reported

A chaotic situation prevailed in the southern Indian state of Karnataka today as burqa-clad Muslim students were barred entry in several pre-university colleges following a High Court order restraining pupils from wearing any religious clothing in educational institutions.