Nepal teams seek hundreds trapped in hydropower tunnels after deadly floods
31 August 2026
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Asia
Nepal buries dead as rescuers seek thousands missing
31 August 2026
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Asia
Before flood catastrophe, Nepal asked China for early warnings as risks mounted
31 August 2026
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Asia
Nepal’s high-tech disaster response meets low-tech reality
30 August 2026
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World
Nepal's flood damage may cost up to a tenth of economy to rebuild
29 August 2026
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World
Nepal floods leave trail of destruction, aid challenge
29 August 2026
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Asia
Russia-backed port plan: Myanmar military offensive targets land in south
22 August 2026
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Asia
Indian army chief conferred honorary rank of Nepali Army general
18 August 2026
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South Asia
Pakistan detains 258 in scam centre raid
18 August 2026
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South Asia
Welcome back to ‘old Pakistan’
Over a month after the no-confidence motion was tabled against Prime Minister Imran Khan on March 8, members of the National Assembly finally cast their votes to make Imran Khan the first prime minister in the country’s history to be ousted through a vote of no confidence.
10 April 2022
Sri Lanka nearly out of medicine
Sri Lanka’s doctors warned yesterday they were nearly out of life-saving medicines and said the island nation’s economic crisis threatened a worse death toll than the coronavirus pandemic.
10 April 2022
Pakistan PM election: Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Shehbaz Sharif file nomination papers
As the nation recovered from yesterday's long and tiring National Assembly session which saw Imran Khan lose his government, politicians went about business as usual on Sunday and submitted their nomination papers for the prime minister's election.
10 April 2022
Amit Shah’s ‘people from various states should speak in Hindi, not English’ remark draws flak
India’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remark – on last Thursday – that people from various states should speak in Hindi, not English, and that Hindi should be regarded as an alternative to English, is drawing sharp criticism, Time of India reports.
10 April 2022
Frontrunner for next PM of Pakistan: Who is Shehbaz Sharif?
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, is all set to become the next Prime Minister after Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was voted out in a no-confidence motion.
10 April 2022
Pakistan govt officials can't leave country without NoC
In the wake of the prevailing situation in the country, the security and Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) immigration staff was put on high alert with a directive to stop any government official travelling abroad without a No-Objection Certificate (NoC), according to a senior FIA official.
10 April 2022
Pakistani politicians, pundits react to Imran Khan's ouster
Over a month after the no-confidence motion was tabled against Prime Minister Imran Khan on March 8, members of the National Assembly finally cast their votes to make Imran Khan the first prime minister in the country's history to be ousted through a vote of no confidence.
10 April 2022
Pakistan PM Imran Khan ousted in no-confidence vote
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has lost the voting on a no-confidence motion moved against him by the joint opposition in the National Assembly.
9 April 2022
Thailand sends Myanmar refugees back despite the threat of death
The young woman from Myanmar and her family now live amid the tall grasses of a riverbank on the Thai border, trapped between a country that does not want them and a country whose military could kill them.
9 April 2022
Imran Khan ousted
Pakistan’s lower house of parliament today voted in favour of removing Prime Minister Imran Khan from office, following a nearly 14-hour standoff between the opposition and Khan’s ruling party that started yesterday morning.
9 April 2022
‘These leaders must go’
Tens of thousands marched on beleaguered Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office yesterday, in the biggest protest to date over the country’s dire economic and political crisis.
9 April 2022
India’s Gujarat detects its first case of XE variant of Covid-19: Report
The western Indian state of Gujarat today confirmed its first case of XE variant of Covid-19 -- a more infectious but not more severe than Omicron strain.
9 April 2022
No confidence-motion: Voting against Imran Khan begins
The opposition's no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan succeeded an hour past midnight on Sunday, with 174 members in the 342-strong house voting in favour of the motion.
9 April 2022
Accept Supreme Court’s decision but won’t recognise any ‘imported govt’: Imran Khan
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday said he would accept the Supreme Court’s verdict on a no-confidence motion, but added he would not recognise an opposition government if it succeeded in an attempt to oust him, the latest twist in a political crisis engulfing the nuclear-armed nation.
8 April 2022
Shanghai widens Covid testing as other Chinese cities impose curbs
Shanghai yesterday announced a record 21,000 new cases and a third consecutive day of Covid testing as a lockdown of its 26 million people showed no sign of easing and other Chinese cities tightened curbs - even in places with no recent infections.
8 April 2022
Take action or face no-trust vote
Sri Lanka’s main opposition party yesterday asked the government to take effective action to resolve an economic crisis or face a no-confidence motion, as business leaders from garments, tea and other industries warned exports could fall 20-30 percent this year.
8 April 2022
Pakistan court sentences Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in fresh terror financing cases
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan today sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in fresh terror financing cases, PTI reported.
8 April 2022
Imran Khan to make 'important announcement' tonight
In the wake of the Supreme Court's historic verdict directing Prime Minister Imran Khan to face the no-confidence motion against him, the embattled premier is expected to address the nation today during which he will make an "important announcement".
8 April 2022
India to administer booster dose to all above 18 from April 10
India today announced its decision to expand the coverage of Covid-19 “precautionary dose”, also known as a booster dose, to all adults from April 10 at private vaccination centres.
8 April 2022
I am candidate for Pakistan’s next PM: Shahbaz Sharif
Pakistani opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday said his allies have nominated him as the next prime minister if they are able to vote out Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday.
8 April 2022