'The government was not in favour of stopping the use of social media and will ensure an environment for its use'

At least 19 people died in Nepal yesterday and dozens more were injured as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who tried to break into parliament.

Police clashed with young protesters yesterday in Kathmandu, killing at least 19 people as the unrest in the Himalayan country over the social media ban turned into a wider protest against endemic corruption.

Prominent personalities warn government and parties not to dismiss the demands of youths

Resignation follows deaths of 19 people during Gen Z protests

Police use water cannons and teargas as few enter Parliament building premises

Pakistan’s government yesterday said “we decide who stays”, after the United Nations refugee chief urged the country to pause its mass expulsion of Afghans after a major earthquake.

The accident took place on Thursday night in the mountainous Ella area, about 130 kilometres (81 miles) east of the capital.

Police were investigating the blast, which appeared to be a suicide bombing, says police official

A helicopter crashed in the north of the country on Monday, killing all five people on board

Floods and landslides triggered by record-breaking rain killed at least 11 people, including four children, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir, officials said Saturday.

Pakistan’s eastern towns of Chiniot and Hafizabad face a risk of catastrophic floods if an irrigation barrage crumbles on a major river upstream after heavy rains swelled it beyond capacity, officials warned yesterday.

The Maldives, a luxury holiday destination and top diving spot in the Indian Ocean, will lift a decades-old ban on shark fishing, the president’s office said yesterday.

India's high commission in Islamabad shared the warning yesterday

The military-led government announced this week that polls would be held in phases, starting on December 28, pushing the vote as a salve for a war that has consumed the country since the generals seized power in a 2021 coup

Week-long downpours leave 400+ dead, villages swept away

Myanmar's civil war has killed thousands, left more than half the nation in poverty, and more than 3.5 million people living displaced

Rescuers were struggling to retrieve bodies from debris after flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan killed at least 344 people in the past 48 hours, authorities said yesterday.

Most were killed in flash floods and collapsing houses

Says disaster authority; majority of the deaths, 150, were recorded in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province