India’s Supreme Court yesterday asked authorities to report back within a week on what they were doing to stop farmers from burning crop residue as smog began to pollute the air in the capital Delhi and surrounding regions, local media reported.

Bhutan has signed a deal with India’s Reliance Group to build 1,270 megawatts’ worth of renewable electricity projects in the Himalayan nation as it seeks to become an energy-exporting powerhouse.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim arrives in Dhaka today for an official visit, ushering in the hope of boosting trade and investment, improving migration system, and addressing the Rohingya crisis.

Bengali and four other languages have been conferred the status of classical language, the Indian government announced tonight..The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet presided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi..The classical language status was conferred also

A doctor was shot dead inside a nursing home in the Kalindi Kunj locality of south east Delhi today, police said.

Thousands of junior doctors, joined by people from all walks of life, took out a mega protest march in Kolkata yesterday demanding justice for a medic who was raped and murdered at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August

Census takers guarded by police and soldiers took to the streets of Myanmar yesterday for a national survey that anti-junta groups have urged people to boycott.

India does not share the vision for an “Asian Nato” called for by Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his US counterpart Antony Blinken in Washington on Tuesday and held discussions on a number of issues, including the "recent developments in the Indian sub-continent"

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma today said Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of coexistence with their ecology and respect for Mother Nature has great relevance in addressing some of the pressing problems of their times such as climate change and sustainable development

Talks between Indian and Chinese diplomats have opened options for the rivals to resolve conflict on their Himalayan frontier, India’s army chief said yesterday.

Junior doctors in India’s West Bengal state resumed their full strike yesterday, complaining that the country’s judiciary has not made adequate efforts to restore justice after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in August.

At least 23 people died in Thailand when a school bus carrying more than 40 students and teachers on a field trip caught fire in the outskirts of the capital Bangkok, police said yesterday.

Famous Bollywood actor Govinda sustained a bullet injury to his leg today when his licensed revolver misfired after being dropped at his residence in Juhu, Mumbai, according to his manager and police

A man killed three people and wounded 15 in a knife attack at a supermarket in the Chinese megacity of Shanghai, police said Tuesday

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is likely to visit Bangladesh on October 4 and discuss a number of key bilateral and regional issues, including labour migration, trade, and the Myanmar crisis.

At least 66 people have been killed in Nepal since early on Friday as persistent downpours triggered flooding and landslides, closing major roads and disrupting domestic air travel, officials said yesterday.

India yesterday withdrew its 14-month-long blanket ban on the export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect but imposed a minimum export price (MEP) of $490 per tonne.

Taiwan said yesterday it was on heightened alert after detecting “multiple waves” of missile firings in inland China, days after Beijing test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Gunmen killed seven workers in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan late on Saturday, police said.