China orders schools, businesses shut in 10 cities as Super Typhoon Ragasa nears

Ragasa is expected to make landfall in the central and western coastal areas of Guangdong within 24 hours
23 September 2025

Afghan boy sneaks into plane’s landing gear, reaches Delhi

A 13-year-old Afghan boy travelled from Kabul to Delhi by hiding in the landing gear of a Kam Air flight, ANI reported yesterday
22 September 2025

2 held in India over ‘trafficking’ Bangladeshi girl

A large sum of Indian, Bangladeshi and other currencies seized
21 September 2025

Pakistan police find bodies of three transgender women

The bodies of three transgender women were found Sunday on a roadside in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, police said, in the latest violence against the community.
21 September 2025

Pakistani court indicts man over teenage influencer killing

A man accused of shooting dead a 17-year-old TikTok star at her home in Pakistan after she had repeatedly rejected his advances was formally indicted Saturday, an AFP reporter in court saw.
20 September 2025

Ex-Nepal PM Oli blames ‘infiltrators’

Nepal’s deposed prime minister KP Sharma Oli yesterday said his government did not order police to open fire on protesters and called for a probe into violence that killed at least 73 people.
19 September 2025

India expects KSA to respect mutual ties

India yesterday said it hoped Saudi Arabia would keep in mind mutual interests and sensitivities between the two countries, two days after Riyadh signed a mutual defence pact with New Delhi’s old foe Pakistan.
19 September 2025

Blasts kill at least 11 in southwestern Pakistan

Suicide bomber drove into a paramilitary convoy
19 September 2025
19 September 2025

Sri Lanka jails keeper in its first elephant trafficking case

Verdict six years after the case went to court
19 September 2025

6.1-magnitude quake hits Indonesia's Central Papua: USGS

The jolt woke local residents who immediately rushed outside.
19 September 2025

Maldives journalists to seek repeal of new media law

See new law as a threat to press freedom
18 September 2025

Media regulation: Maldives MPs back controversial bill

The Maldivian parliament has passed legislation to regulate journalists and media institutions despite widespread concerns that it would curb press freedom in the atoll nation.
17 September 2025

India, Iran join Belarus-Russia military drills: Russian agency

India, Iran and other Moscow allies from Asia and Africa have joined the Russia-Belarus Zapad military drills, Russian state media reported on Tuesday, citing the Kremlin.."The coalition force includes task forces and military contingents from the armed forces of the People's Republic of B
16 September 2025

‘Bangladesh must walk a fine line amid global power shifts’

Parvez Karim Abbasi discusses Bangladesh’s geopolitical balancing act
16 September 2025

Protests in Nepal against interim govt

Nepal’s new interim prime minister unveiled her first ministers yesterday, as the Himalayan nation seeks to restore order after deadly youth-led anti-corruption protests that ousted the previous government.
15 September 2025

US announces 'framework' TikTok deal with China

Trump will speak to Xi Jinping on Friday for the deal
15 September 2025

Assam's NIT suspends 5 Bangladeshi students over campus violence

All the five students will be sent back to their country, says NIT director
15 September 2025

Students killed at Myanmar boarding school as junta escalates air war

Nearly 500 airstrikes launched nationwide by the military in the last month
15 September 2025

Indian forces gun down top Maoist rebel, two others

India is waging an all-out offensive against the last remaining traces of the Naxalite rebellion
15 September 2025