At least seven people were killed and 16 others missing in Bhutan after flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains washed away a section of a small hydroelectric plant on Thursday, local media reported.

Pakistan will open criminal proceedings against former prime minister Imran Khan on charges of exposing official secrets, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said yesterday, the latest in a string of cases the former premier has been facing.

Sri Lanka’s parliament approved an anti-corruption bill yesterday, aimed at improving governance in the crisis-hit country and meeting requirements linked to a $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

At least 11 labourers were killed and five others injured yesterday when a wall collapsed during heavy monsoon rains on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital.

Pakistan’s ruling coalition will dissolve parliament and hand over the reins to a caretaker government next month four days before it is constitutionally required to do so, in preparation for a general election by November, local media reported yesterday.

Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani today in a short visit to Dhaka met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to "handover the Godda power plant"

PM Shehbaz had made a similar announcement on Wednesday as well, in which declared that the term of his government would end next month

Nepal’s aviation regulator has banned helicopters from conducting “non-essential” flights, including those for sight-seeing, for two months after a deadly crash in the Everest region in which six people were killed.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $3 billion (€2.7 billion) bailout package for the country on Wednesday

Suspected Islamist militants armed with guns, hand grenades and rockets attacked a military base in southern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least four soldiers, the army and security officials said.

A helicopter went missing in Nepal on Tuesday carrying five Mexican tourists and a Nepali pilot, the company said

At least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that have lashed Pakistan since last month, officials said today

Islamist militants killed a Pakistani army officer yesterday during a gun battle in a tribal district close to the Afghan border, the army said, close to where three soldiers died in a suicide attack the previous day.

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed Tuesday, the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life

The Taliban leader in a new verbal decree banned women's beauty salons in Kabul and other provinces in Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported yesterday.

Sri Lanka's parliament approved a domestic debt restructuring plan on Saturday that is crucial to continue a $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

India’s Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane met Myanmar’s senior leadership, including the defence minister, and discussed a number of issues including maintenance of tranquillity in border areas, illegal trans-border movement, drug trafficking, and smuggling

Pakistan's national assembly has passed legislation limiting how long lawmakers can be disqualified from office, a state spokesman said today, paving the way for exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return to politics

Pakistan’s army has sacked three senior officers, including a lieutenant general, for failing to avert last month’s violent attacks on military assets by former prime minister Imran Khan’s supporters to protest his arrest, the army’s spokesperson said yesterday.

Two Pakistanis were killed today while one was "critically injured" as the Indian Army opened fire at a group of shepherds at the Line of Control, the Pakistan army's media relations wing said