India’s Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari plans to make it mandatory for ambulances across the country have instrumental sounds instead of wailing sirens.

Around 20 people have been after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit southern Pakistan in darkness early on Thursday, government officials said.

Military tensions between China and Taiwan are at their highest in four decades, the island’s defence minister warned yesterday, adding Beijing would be in a position to launch a full-scale invasion in 2025.

The Gauhati High Court has taken cognisance of the eviction drive at Dhalpur in Assam’s Darrang district that claimed two lives on September 23.

In a departure from tradition, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will administer the oath to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a member of the state legislative assembly in Kolkata today.

Singapore has trialled patrol robots that blast warnings at people engaging in “undesirable social behaviour”, adding to an arsenal of surveillance technology in the tightly controlled city-state that is fuelling privacy concerns.

India’s school closures and its children’s lack of smartphone and internet facilities amidst the Covid-19 pandemic have worsened an educational divide, the UN cultural agency said, flagging risks to young people’s futures.

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday ordered a probe into his niece’s overseas wealth after she and her husband were alleged in the Pandora Papers to have millions of dollars stashed abroad.

1737 - A cyclone causes 40 foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Kolkata, India.

Southeast Asian nations are discussing whether to exclude Myanmar’s junta chief from a summit due to slow progress on a plan to address turmoil after a coup in the country earlier this year, a top diplomat said yesterday.

With record numbers of military flights near Taiwan over the last week, China has been showing a new intensity and military sophistication as it steps up its harassment of the island it claims as its own and asserts its territorial ambitions in the region.

Thanks to K-pop and the rise of blockbuster Korean films such as "Parasite", South Korean culture continues to gain popularity worldwide and the latest update in the Oxford English Dictionary proves it.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said he will prepare his defence against an International Criminal Court probe into his deadly drug war, after previously insisting he would not cooperate.

The son of late Philippines strongman Ferdinand Marcos declared yesterday he will run for president, ending speculation about his political ambitions but stirring anger among victims of his father’s brutal era of martial law.

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not call any defence witnesses at her incitement trial in a junta court, her lawyer said yesterday, as the military hit a detained US journalist with another criminal charge.

Malaysia late Monday summoned Beijings’s envoy to the Southeast Asian country in protest after Chinese vessels entered its maritime economic zone in the disputed South China Sea.

Girls have returned to some secondary schools in a northern province of Afghanistan, Taliban officials and teachers said yesterday, but they remain barred from classrooms in much of the country.

French clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released yesterday found, and its authors said the Catholic Church had turned a blind eye to the ‘scourge’ for too long.

Taiwan falling to China would trigger “catastrophic” consequences for peace in Asia, President Tsai Ing-wen wrote in a piece for Foreign Affairs published yesterday, and if threatened Taiwan will do whatever it takes to defend itself.

Japan’s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, yesterday called a parliamentary election for October 31 and vowed to bolster the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, shortly after being formally confirmed by lawmakers in the top job.