With an eye on China, India today called for an open and inclusive order in the Indo-Pacific based upon respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity of countries, peaceful resolutions of disputes through dialogue, and adherence to international rules and laws.

Chinese national Han Junwe, who was apprehended by the BSF while trying to illegally enter India from Bangladesh on June 10, was yesterday taken by West Bengal state police to the place where he was caught, to help reconstruct the scene.

A court in West Bengal’s Malda district has remanded Chinese national Han Junwe, who was arrested after illegally crossing over from Bangladesh, in police custody for six days.

A firebrand Pakistani scholar has been detained for making death threats against Nobel prize laureate Malala Yousafzai over her comments on marriage, officials said Friday.

Government officials have privately begun confirming a secret visit to Islamabad of CIA Director William Burns and are suggesting that he was firmly told that Pakistan would not host the spy agency’s drone bases on its territory.

The death toll in a train crash in southern Pakistan rose to 56 yesterday, a railway spokeswoman said, the latest accident to highlight a broken railway system that dates back to the 19th century.

Turkey has offered to guard and run Kabul's airport after the United States and other NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, but US officials say Ankara is imposing conditions which need to be resolved as their leaders prepare to meet next week.

Pakistan Railways officials said Tuesday that at least 63 people had died in a double train accident in a remote part of southern Sindh province a day earlier.

At least 43 people were killed and dozens injured yesterday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train ploughed into another express that had derailed just minutes earlier, officials said.

With the country in desperate need of Covid-19 vaccines, the government has signed a non-disclosure agreement with the vaccine maker Sinopharm to procure Chinese shots despite questions whether such an agreement can be signed legally remains unanswered.

Two express trains collided in southern Pakistan killing at least 35 passengers, authorities said, as rescuers and villagers worked to pull injured people and more bodies from the wreckage.

The Lahore High Court yesterday acquitted a Christian couple of blasphemy charges and set aside their death sentence awarded by a district and sessions court in 2014.

A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, police said on Saturday.

Coronavirus infections in the South Asia region surpassed 30 million yesterday, according to a Reuters tally of official data, led by India which is struggling with a second Covid-19 wave and a vaccine shortage across the region.

As Bangladesh, along with West Bengal and Odisha, braces for Cyclone Yaas, let’s look at how the cyclone got its name.

India will have 51.6 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine procured by the end of July this year, including the 18 crore doses already administered among people, the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.

Chief Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma has thanked Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Dr AK Abdul Momen for his good wishes and noted that the next 25 years are crucial for both countries.

At least 12 people were killed in an explosion inside a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul during Friday prayers as worshippers gathered for the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said.

A former Myanmar beauty queen has joined ethnic rebels to take up arms against the country's military junta, posting photos of herself with an assault rifle.

Protesters rallied in towns and cities around Myanmar on Tuesday to denounce its military rulers, 100 days after the generals' overthrow of an elected government plunged the country into its biggest crisis in decades.