A court in Delhi today (July 2, 2022) rejected the bail plea of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair and sent him to 14-day judicial custody.

The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada yesterday called for the world to stop telling them how to run Afghanistan, insisting sharia law was the only model for a successful Islamic state. 

Rescuers in India’s northeast have recovered 20 bodies from the site of a landslide that buried a railway construction camp, the army said yesterday, after a second day of search efforts.

North Korea claimed on Friday that the country's first Covid-19 outbreak began with patients touching "alien things" near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame to the neighbour for the wave of infections in the isolated country.

India’s Supreme Court today came down heavily on suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her deplorable comments against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), saying her "loose tongue" has "set the entire country on fire" and that she is "single-handedly responsible for what is happening in the country".

India today imposed export tax on petrol, diesel and jet fuel (ATF) while also joining nations like the UK in imposing a windfall tax on crude oil produced locally.

The World Bank has appointed Martin Raiser, an economist and development expert with almost two decades of experience at the World Bank Group, as its new vice president for the South Asia Region.

Some 37 Bangladeshis were reportedly nabbed by the Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) as they tried to enter the country illegally by boat in waters off Kuala Sepang in Selangor.

India’s Supreme Court today (July 1, 2022) slammed former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her deplorable comments on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), saying her remarks “are disturbing and smack of arrogance” and that she owed the nation an apology.

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has voiced his concerns over the current political and social situation in India.

A large number of people from various tribal communities of five Indian states demonstrated in New Delhi on Thursday (June 30, 2022), saying they are “not Hindus or Christians” and demanding their religion be given a separate category.

Hong Kong has overcome its challenges and “risen from the ashes”, China’s President Xi Jinping said yesterday, as he arrived in the former British colony to celebrate 25 years since its return to Chinese rule.

China’s factory and service sectors snapped three months of activity decline in June, business surveys showed on Thursday, as authorities lifted a strict Covid lockdown in Shanghai, reviving output and consumer spending.

At least seven people have died and another 55 are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, local officials said yesterday. 

Beijing yesterday slammed Nato over a “completely futile” warning in which the group said for the first time in a guiding blueprint that China’s power challenges the military alliance. 

Israel has expressed willingness to share technology and know-how with India for the success of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship project “Make-in-India”, but voiced concerns over some cases of violation of intellectual property rights and indirectly citied China’s “reputation” regarding this.

The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear tomorrow Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s plea challenging his arrest and police remand on the charge of hurting religious sentiments following a complaint over a tweet from 2018, his lawyers said.

The Twitter account that filed an official complaint by tagging the Delhi Police was removed days after Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt News, was arrested because of a tweet he posted in 2018.

Several reports on Indian journalist and Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair’s arrest have raised more questions than they have answered. They lack balance and cross-checking and appear to be heavily reliant on what police said.

Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, is to be sworn in as Philippine president Thursday in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history but which opponents say was pulled off by whitewashing his family’s image.