Aid workers called yesterday for a ceasefire to allow the evacuation of people trapped around a town at the centre of fierce fighting between Myanmar's army and ethnic rebels, after the deaths of two more civilians in an area cloaked in a state of emergency.

Former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra was indicted over a bungled rice subsidy scheme yesterday in the latest legal move against her family that could see her jailed for up to a decade.

Energy-starved Pakistanis, their economy battered by chronic fuel and electricity shortages, may soon have to contend with a new resource crisis: major water shortages, the Pakistani government warned this week.

At least 18 people have been killed and dozens other injured as three militants have attacked a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar with guns and grenades

Thailand's junta chief yesterday said the military is keeping such a close eye on ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra that she would be unable to eat a bowl of noodles without their permission.

I'm not the chief minister, you are all Delhi's chief minister

Former chief of the Indian army's eastern command Lt Gen (retd) JFR Jacob yesterday said it was the freedom fighters’ gallantry that liberated Bangladesh from Pakistan occupation.

Eighteen Pakistani army personnel including a Captain . were killed at noon on Sunday when a lively shell exploded at a demolition side near Nowshera, some 30 km northwest of Peshwar, capital of Pakistan's , Northwest Frontier Province, reports Xinhua.

Pakistan denied on Sunday. it had suspended transit facilities to Indians and violated a bilateral visa agreement, Reuter reports from Islamabad.

Police in Nepal have arrested a suspected Sri Lankan Tamil guerilla in connection with the murder of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Press Trust of India