India’s top court yesterday quashed the early release of 11 Hindu men who had been jailed for life for gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman and murdering her relatives during riots in Gujarat state in 2002, a lawyer in the case said.

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka’s navy said yesterday it was joining a US-led maritime taskforce to protect international shipping against attacks by Yemen’s Huthi rebels.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court yesterday scrapped lifetime bans on contesting elections for people with criminal convictions, paving the way for Nawaz Sharif to run for prime minister for a fourth time.

Pakistan's Supreme Court today scrapped lifetime bans on contesting elections for people with criminal convictions, paving the way for Nawaz Sharif to run for prime minister for a fourth time

One of India's largest travel platforms suspended flight bookings to the tourism-dependent Maldives on Monday after disparaging social media posts against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embittered relations between the South Asian neighbours

In a blow for the BJP government in Gujarat, India's Supreme Court today quashed the release of 11 men who were jailed for life for gang-raping a pregnant woman and murdering her relatives during communal riots in the western Indian state in 2002.

A bomb targeting a polio protection team in northwestern Pakistan Monday killed at least five police officers, officials said

The number of people unaccounted for after Japan's New Year's Day earthquake more than tripled on Monday to 323 while the death toll rose to 168, according to local authorities

China yesterday announced sanctions against five US defence firms in response to their involvement in arms sales to self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as part of its territory.

The picturesque Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan holds general elections today with serious economic challenges calling into question its longstanding policy of prioritising “Gross National Happiness” over growth.

Japanese prosecutors yesterday made the first arrests in a funding scandal that forced Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to replace four ministers last month, local reports said.

The Maldives government has suspended three deputy ministers for disparaging India’s prime minister, an official said yesterday, during a dip in ties with its powerful neighbour.

Maldives today suspended three of its ministers over derogatory remarks made against India and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he posted about the pictures of his recent trip to Lakshadweep island on X, local newspaper Atoll Times reported

A woman in her 90s trapped for five days under rubble caused by a huge earthquake in central Japan was rescued against the odds, but snow and storms were further complicating relief efforts on Sunday

A Myanmar rebel alliance has gained control of a key town along the country’s volatile northern border with China after weeks of fierce fighting with junta troops, the alliance and the junta said.

Taiwan’s defence ministry yesterday accused China of threatening aviation safety and waging psychological warfare on the island’s people with a recent spate of balloons spotted near or over the island, days before key Taiwanese elections.

North Korea’s military fired over 60 artillery rounds near Yeonpyeong Island yesterday, Seoul’s military said, a day after both sides staged live-fire drills in the same area near their contested maritime border.

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s inaugural solar mission, Aditya-L1, has reached its destination within the anticipated four-month timeframe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday. 

Rescuers and residents sifted through rubble Saturday as their focus turned to recovering bodies and cleaning up rather than finding survivors, five days after a huge earthquake struck central Japan and killed at least 126 people

India’s Gautam Adani once again became Asia’s richest man yesterday, according to a Bloomberg index of the world’s billionaires, a year after allegations of market manipulation hammered his conglomerate’s stock prices.