“Rat fever" has killed at least 12 people with another 54 suspected fatal cases in the southern Indian state of Kerala since August, after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said yesterday. A total of 372 people have been infected with the disease, known properly as leptospirosis.

A global outcry over the jailing of two Reuters journalists has been met with silence from Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a stony response that an official defended yesterday as a reluctance to criticise the judiciary.

Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's state secrets law while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims were jailed for seven years yesterday, fuelling international outrage a week after the army was accused of genocide.

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) takes up the issue of arrest of Bangladeshi nationals at the border and smuggling of narcotics from India into Bangladesh on the first day of the biannual conference with India’s Border Security Force (BSF) in New Delhi.

Indian police have arrested a senior Buddhist monk accused of sexually abusing 15 boys at a meditation centre he ran in a holy city, officials said yesterday.

A general strike and curfew brought Indian-administered Kashmir to a standstill yesterday ahead of a landmark Supreme Court hearing centred on the region's autonomy.

India's top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of

Punjab's new information minister, Islamist politician Fayaz-ul-Hasan Chohan, has announced a ban on "vulgar" movie billboards in the Pakistani province, angering those who fear the growing influence of hardliners under new Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the absence of an international policy against the generation of blasphemous content is a “collective failure” on part of the Muslim countries.

Facebook's ban of Myanmar's military leaders marks a new step for the leading social network against state "actors" -- and raises thorny questions on how the company deals with repressive regimes using the platform.

More than 1,200 people have been killed across South Asia in monsoon storms so far this year, according to figures collected by AFP as

Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa congratulated Prime Minister Imran Khan on assuming the top ministerial job

With Indian parliamentary polls just months away, opposition parties yesterday flagged before the Election Commission the alleged tinkering of Electronic Voting Machines which they claim ensures votes in favour of one party and demanded a return to paper ballots.

The Accident Investigation Commission (AIC) of Nepal terms the Kathmandu Post news report on US-Bangla airlines plane crash ‘‘unethical and fraudulent’’.

A Bangladeshi investigator, who is closely involved with the Nepali official investigation into the crash of US-Bangla Airlines plane, terms “baseless” the findings of a report obtained and published today by a Nepali newspaper.

The pilot of the US-Bangla plane that crashed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport in March, killing 51 people, appears to have lied to the control tower during the landing procedure and was smoking continuously inside the cockpit during the one-hour flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu.

The death toll from devastating floods in the southern Indian state of Kerala rose to 445 yesterday with the discovery of 28 more bodies as the waters recede and a massive cleanup gathers pace, government officials said.

In what appears to be unfolding of its agenda for "change", the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government imposes a ban on first-class air travel by the president, head of the government, chief justice, Senate chairman and NA speaker.

India and China have agreed to expand their military ties and enhance interaction to ensure peace on their common border, India said after a meeting between the old rivals' defence ministers.

Pakistan has called for the United States to amend what its foreign ministry described as a "factually incorrect" account of a phone call between US Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo and new Prime Minister Imran Khan.