Flight and train services were disrupted in India’s capital New Delhi for the second day running yesterday as dense fog and cold enveloped large swathes of the northern part of the country.

An ethnic armed group in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine said it has taken control of a town bordering India and Bangladesh, marking the latest loss for the military government as it battles rebellion in several parts of the country.

The new Maldives president set a deadline on Sunday of March 15 for its giant neighbour India to withdraw all its troops from the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago nation.

An ethnic armed group in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine said it has taken control of a town bordering India and Bangladesh, marking the latest loss for the military government as it battles rebellion in several parts of the country

North Korea said Monday it had successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic manoeuvrable warhead, the latest breakthrough in its pursuit of advanced weaponry to threaten South Korean and US targets

The Maldives has called India to withdraw troops from its territory by March 15, an official said yesterday, in a step that will further strain ties between South Asian neighbours.

At least five Pakistan soldiers were killed when their vehicle was hit by a bomb blast following a clash with militants in southwestern Balochistan province, the military said yesterday.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Saturday rejected an attempt by former prime minister Imran Khan’s party to retain its traditional electoral symbol of a cricket bat, in the latest setback for the jailed leader ahead of a general election.

India’s main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday began a new cross-country march from a troubled northeastern state, aiming to generate political momentum to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in general elections due by May.

China’s top diplomat warned yesterday any steps towards Taiwan’s independence would be “harshly punished”, after the self-ruled island defied Beijing’s warnings and chose pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as president.

The symbol ties in with former Prime Minister Imran Khan's image as a former cricket star. His Tehreek-e-Insaf party believes a court ruling forcing them to lose the cricket bat will cost them during next month's vote

India said yesterday it had lodged a protest over a senior British diplomat’s visit to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, saying the trip this week had infringed on India’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

India’s foreign minister is scheduled to visit Iran today for a two-day trip, following Western air strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels over the Tehran-backed group’s attacks on

Taiwanese voters swept the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te into power yesterday, rejecting Chinese pressure to spurn him, as China said it would not give up on achieving “reunification”.

Lai Ching-te, the presidential candidate for Taiwan's ruling party, won an election on Saturday that China had framed as a choice between war and peace

India has taken a “serious note of the highly objectionable” visit of the British High Commissioner in Islamabad, along with a UK Foreign Office official, to Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir on January 10 this year

At least 10 people have died and six are missing after an accident at a coal mine in central China's Henan Province, state media said Saturday

Myanmar’s military and an alliance of armed ethnic minority groups announced a China-mediated ceasefire yesterday following months of conflict that has posed the biggest threat to the junta since it seized power in 2021.

Hundreds of thousands of people attended final pre-election rallies in Taiwan yesterday ahead of critical presidential and parliamentary polls, as China’s defence ministry warned it would “smash any Taiwan independence plots”.

More than seven years after an Indian Air Force An-32 aircraft with 29 personnel on board went missing over the Bay of Bengal, its wreckage was found in the sea about 310km off Chennai, the India Defence Ministry said yesterday.