International banks can transfer money to Afghanistan for humanitarian purposes, and aid groups are allowed to pay teachers and healthcare workers at state-run institutions without fear of breaching sanctions on the Taliban, the United States said on Wednesday.

Myanmar’s junta suffered a fresh diplomatic blow yesterday as regional bloc Asean barred its top diplomat from attending an upcoming meeting of foreign ministers.

India today said a consistent decline in daily active Covid-19 cases and daily positivity rate indicate the spread of the infection has gone down, as the country’s education ministry proposed reopening of schools with strict adherence to updated guidelines.

The UN Security Council called Wednesday (Feb 2) for an "immediate cessation of all forms of violence" in Myanmar and expressed hope that a special envoy would be allowed to travel there to mediate the crisis.

Myanmar’s shadow government, set up after last year’s military coup, said it accepts the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear allegations that the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was re-elected Chairperson of Trinamool Congress party and urged all regional parties to put up a

Afghanistan’s public universities opened yesterday for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus.

Indian officials have held heated discussions with Google, Twitter and Facebook for not proactively removing what they described as fake news on their platforms, sources told Reuters, the government’s latest altercation with Big Tech.

A Mumbai court today summoned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and directed her to appear before it on March 2 in a case filed alleging that she showed disrespect to the national anthem during her visit to the city, PTI reported.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was re-elected chairperson of Trinamool Congress party today and urged all regional parties to put up a united fight against the BJP in the 2024 general elections.

Some public universities opened in Afghanistan on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August, with a trickle of women attending classes that officials said would be segregated by sex.

Sri Lanka’s navy yesterday said it had arrested 21 Indian fishermen after a confrontation with two trawlers poaching in the island’s territorial waters.

The Taliban have arrested two Afghan journalists working for a local news channel, rights groups and the United Nations said yesterday, weeks after two women activists went missing.

Increased instability in Myanmar since a military coup a year ago has seen a surge in narcotics production there and trafficking into Southeast

India today announced Rs 300 crore annual budgetary financial assistance to Bangladesh in the coming 2022-23 (April-March) financial year, up from Rs 200 crore in the outgoing fiscal 2021-22.

India will roll out e-passports with embedded chip in 2022-23 financial year (April-March) to enhance convenience for citizens, country's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today.

A student of a girl's pre-university college in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has moved the state High Court with a plea to allow the right to wear hijab inside the classroom.

Pakistani police on Monday called for the wildly popular Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) game to be banned after a teenager confessed to killing four members of his family in a rage after bingeing for days playing online.

A group of young men were recently stopped at a security checkpoint in Yangon and asked to hand over their mobile phones. After being questioned about social media apps on their phones, one was fined for using a virtual private network (VPN).

Weekly Covid-19 cases in India fell for the first time in the third wave of the pandemic while deaths from the virus continued to rise, registering a growth of 41% against the previous week’s toll.