The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant will resume an operation to remove a sample of highly radioactive material next week, reports said yesterday, after having suspended the effort over a technical snag.

At least 10 Pakistani frontier police were killed in a militant attack on an outpost near the northwestern city of Dera Ismail Khan, the interior ministry said in a statement.

Suspected militants in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir ambushed an army vehicle and killed five people, including three soldiers, officials said yesterday, days after gunmen killed seven construction workers in the disputed territory.

The severe cyclonic storm "Dana" swept coastal areas of India's eastern states of Odisha and West Bengal today since making landfall after midnight, toppling trees, snapping power lines and inundating some low-lying areas but no casualties were reported, officials said

Ten Pakistan border police were killed in an overnight attack on a check post by at least 20 militants, officials said Friday

The severe cyclonic storm Dana early today slammed into Bhitarkanika and Dhamra coasts of the eastern Indian state of Odisha where authorities evacuated a million people to safety, shut schools, and suspended flight and train operations.

At least 1.1 million people on India’s eastern coast hunkered down in storm shelters ahead of a powerful cyclone set to hammer the low-lying region early this morning.

Major airports will shut overnight, including key travel hub Kolkata, where heavy rain was already lashing the sprawling megacity

The Wayanad seat was previously held by her brother, Rahul Gandhi

Schools in some parts of India’s eastern state of Odisha were ordered to shut and tourists were asked to vacate the popular beach city of Puri, as authorities braced for a severe cyclonic storm that is expected to hit later this week.

Indian commandos shot dead five Maoist rebels in the dense jungles of central India, police said today

Pakistan’s government narrowly passed constitutional amendments yesterday giving lawmakers more power to appoint top judges, who have issued a series of recent decisions favouring opposition chief Imran Khan.

Agitating junior doctors of India's West Bengal state tonight withdrew their 17-day-long hunger strike over the rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, hours after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata

A doctor and six labourers were shot dead in an attack on the site of an under-construction tunnel on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district last night, officials said

A day after West Bengal chief minister called for an end to the two-week fast-unto-death by agitating junior medics in Kolkata, the doctors today held a mega rally to press home their 10-point demands over the rape and murder of their colleague at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital

No casualties were reported in the blast and an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the explosion

A boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees was spotted off Indonesia’s westernmost province with at least one dead body seen on board, local officials said yesterday.

The Malaysian government has agreed to increase the minimum wage rate from RM1,500 currently to RM1,700, with effect from February 1, 2025, said Anwar Ibrahim

The visit of India’s foreign minister to Pakistan earlier this week was a “good beginning” that could lead to a thaw in relations between the two rivals, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was quoted as saying by Indian media yesterday.

North Korea has decided to send a “large-scale” troop deployment to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine, with 1,500 special forces already in Russia’s Far East and undergoing training, Seoul’s spy agency said yesterday.