At least 22 people were killed when a passenger van plunged into a deep ravine in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said.

Pakistan government on June 7, 2022 announced several ‘austerity measures’ to conserve electricity amidst a drastic nationwide shortfall.

South Korea and the United States flew warplanes including stealth fighter jets over waters around the Korean peninsula yesterday in a fresh show of force following recent missile tests by the North, Seoul said.

India’s top counter-terror body, National Investigation Agency (NIA), yesterday (June 5, 2022) filed a chargesheet before a special court in Guwahati against six Indians for their alleged involvement in the trafficking of Rohingya and Bangladeshi women into India.

Pakistan GDP growth will slow to 5% for the upcoming fiscal year beginning on July 1, from 5.9% in the outgoing year, following budgetary tightening aimed at winning International Monetary Fund (IMF) support, the government said on Saturday.

Sri Lanka’s main airport yesterday denied the island nation’s government was behind a decision to detain an Aeroflot aircraft, after Russia lodged a diplomatic protest over the move.

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is seeking urgent United Nations help to build a stockpile of essential foods, the prime minister’s office said yesterday, after authorities warned of looming starvation.

A 10-year-old Bangladeshi boy, undergoing treatment at an Indian hospital for injuries from a stun grenade hurled by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF), has made desperate pleas to return to his parents in Bangladesh.

Pakistan’s ousted prime minister and the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has warned that the country would descend into a civil war if elections were not announced.

Flights in Nepal will be cleared to fly only if there is favourable weather forecast throughout their route, according to new

A 22-year-old Bangladeshi woman swam through the Sundarbans forest for an hour to cross into India and marry her lover in Kolkata. She ended up in jail after the wedding, Indian media reports today said.

Five Indian nationals, who had entered Bangladesh illegally and had been imprisoned, were released this morning from Kurigram district jail.

The bodies of all 22 people, including 19 passengers and three crew members, who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside in Nepal two days ago have been recovered, an official said on Tuesday.

Nepal authorities yesterday recovered or located the bodies of all but one of 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside on Sunday, officials said, and the government has formed a panel to investigate the incident.

Rescuers searching a mountainside in Nepal on Monday recovered the bodies of 17 of the 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed a day earlier, officials said.

After 75 years, a Pakistani woman – separated from her family after the 1947 Partition – reunited with her Indian brothers for the first time last month.

A Nepalese plane of Tara Air, carrying 22 passengers, crashed in the northwest region of the country yesterday. The Twin Otter aircraft had slammed into a mountain – breaking into pieces. No sign of survivors has yet been reported by the rescuers.

Nepal authorities on Monday recovered or located the bodies of all but one of 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside on Sunday, officials said, and the government has formed a panel to investigate the incident.

Nepali rescuers called off their hunt for a missing passenger plane with 22 people on board late yesterday, planning to resume search operations at first light.

Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of students trying to storm the Sri Lankan president’s home yesterday as the government offered an olive branch to demonstrators demanding his resignation.