Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have handed over bodies of four Indian nationals, who were among those killed by the flash flood triggered by the glacial lake outburst in northeastern state of Sikkim, the Indian defence ministry said today.

The Supreme Court in military-ruled Myanmar has rejected appeals against six corruption convictions for the jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to media reports.

Powerful earthquakes in Afghanistan have killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 9,000, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors in years in the quake-prone mountainous country

Desperate rescuers scrabbled through the night searching for survivors of an earthquake that flattened homes in western Afghanistan, with the death toll of 120 expected to rise Sunday as the extent of the disaster becomes clear

The death toll from an earthquake in western Afghanistan on Saturday has risen to around 120 with 1,000 more injured, disaster relief authorities said, as desperate families dug into the night to free relatives trapped in the rubble

The death toll from an earthquake in western Afghanistan has risen to around 120 with 1,000 more injured, disaster relief authorities said yesterday, as desperate families dug into the night to free relatives trapped in the rubble.

Indian rescue teams are finding it difficult to reach flood-hit areas in the north-eastern state of Sikkim where more than 140 people are missing because the region is still experiencing bouts of heavy rain, officials said on Saturday

Turkey’s military “neutralised” 26 Kurdish militants in northern Syria overnight in retaliation for a rocket attack on a Turkish base, the defence ministry said yesterday as conflict escalated nearly a week after a bomb attack in Ankara.

At least 40 people were killed after a glacial lake burst its banks and triggered flash floods this week in the Indian Himalayas, government officials told Reuters yesterday as rescuers searched for dozens missing for a second day.

Canada has moved out a majority of its diplomats working in India outside of New Delhi to either Kuala Lumpur or Singapore after it gave Ottawa an October 10 deadline to reduce its diplomatic staff to achieve parity in strength following a row over the killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, according to a media report yesterday.

A study done by India's Central Water Commission eight years ago warned the Sikkim government that most of the hydropower projects on the Teesta river are highly vulnerable to events like the disastrous glacial lake outburst that occurred in the northeastern state four days ago

Police believe that the mortar shell belonged to the army and was carried by floodwaters flowing down the hills of Sikkim following heavy rains

At least 40 people were killed after a glacial lake burst its banks and triggered flash floods this week in the Indian Himalayas, government officials told Reuters today as rescuers searched for dozens missing for a second day

At least seven people, including two minors, were killed and more than 40 injured when a fire swept through a residential building in Goregaon area of India's financial capital Mumbai today, a civic official said

Malaysia called on neighbour Indonesia and a grouping of Southeast Asian nations to take action as air quality worsens across the country due to fires in Indonesia, its environment minister told Reuters on Thursday

At least two houses were torched in Manipur’s Imphal West district on Wednesday night in a fresh outbreak of violence.

India’s external affairs ministry yesterday said that India asked Canada to downsize its diplomatic presence in New Delhi as it wants to achieve “parity” with Ottawa, adding that “discussions on the matter are under way”.

Russian mercenary group Wagner in 2022 signed a contract with a Chinese firm to acquire two satellites and use their images, aiding its intelligence work as the organisation sought to push Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a document seen by AFP.

Indian police expanded on Thursday an investigation into suspected illegal foreign funding of a news portal, accusing it in court of having sought to create an incorrect map of the country and also sabotage general elections in 2019

India today said it is engaged in talks with Canada on the issue of ensuring parity in its diplomatic presence in India, amidst a standoff over Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation of New Delhi’s involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist