UN human rights chief Volker Turk said today up to 40 aid workers have been killed in Myanmar since the military coup that ousted democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021

Indian security forces prevented an attempted loot of weapons by suspected armed militants from an army camp during a skirmish that left one person dead in Khangabok in Thoubal district of ethnic riot-hit Manipur state on Tuesday, ANI reported yesterday.

Torrential rain has killed 15 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, media reported

Myanmar’s Supreme Court yesterday heard the latest in a series of appeals by former leader Aung San Suu Kyi against a slew of convictions,

A delegation of Bangladesh Awami League will visit New Delhi later this month to interact with BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda

China’s Xi Jinping yesterday urged the leaders of Russia, Iran and other Shanghai alliance states to boost ties and resist sanctions, as Vladimir Putin thanked the bloc for support during a failed rebellion.

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed Tuesday, the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life

Japan won approval on Tuesday from the UN's nuclear watchdog for its plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant into the ocean, despite fierce resistance from Beijing and some local opposition.

The Taliban leader in a new verbal decree banned women's beauty salons in Kabul and other provinces in Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported yesterday.

Ten members of a single family were swept away in a river surge in Malaysia, with seven bodies found just under 25 kilometres from where they had been swimming, a senior police official said Tuesday

Japan is set to receive a final report from a UN watchdog on Tuesday that is widely expected to approve a plan for the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant to release radioactive water into the ocean over the next 30 to 40 years

Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn inaugurated the opening of parliament yesterday, setting the stage for an attempt by the progressive Move Forward Party to form a government after its surprise election win six weeks ago.

China, Japan and South Korea need to send a clear signal of regrouping towards co-operation, and resist “the coercion of bullying and domination”, China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, said yesterday, in an apparent swipe at the United States.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded the first methanol consignment to Bangladesh from Assam saying it is an effort towards establishing the northeastern state as a major exporter of petrochemicals

Scientists from Bangladesh and Mauritius are onboard India’s research vessel "Sagar Nidhi" to participate in the joint ocean expedition spanning nearly 35 days

Sri Lanka's parliament approved a domestic debt restructuring plan on Saturday that is crucial to continue a $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

At least 25 people were killed and eight others injured in western India when a bus crashed and caught fire on an expressway early yesterday.

The Myanmar junta yesterday accused an armed ethnic group of attacking a vehicle convoy containing Chinese military personnel who were travelling to a meeting on border security, a claim the rebels denied.

India’s Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane met Myanmar’s senior leadership, including the defence minister, and discussed a number of issues including maintenance of tranquillity in border areas, illegal trans-border movement, drug trafficking, and smuggling

Nine people have lost their lives in rain-related incidents in the last two days in Gujarat as the state experienced widespread heavy rainfall