Five security personnel were killed in a firefight with gunmen in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, the army and police said yesterday, with security sources saying militants had made a “tactical shift” in attacks.

Militants attacked a military base in northwestern Pakistan, killing eight security personnel, the military said yesterday, after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into a perimeter wall.

At least 17 people were killed and 34 more injured when a bus overturned in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a local official said

Four Indian army personnel, including an officer, who were critically injured in a gunfight with heavily-armed militants in a dense forest, died of injuries in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir early today, official sources said

Thousands of lawyers in India’s capital yesterday protested against an overhaul in criminal legislation by staying away from work and boycotting court hearings, as opposition mounted to the changes.

Soldiers in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have killed three suspected militants, the army said, the latest incident in an uptick of attacks in the disputed northern territory.

Pakistan government is planning to ban former prime minister Imran Khan’s political party and move the country’s top court to press treason charges against him, the information minister said yesterday.

Veteran communist politician K P Sharma Oli was sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister yesterday, the fifth in five years, hoping to ensure political stability in the impoverished Himalayan nation that badly needs to woo investors and create jobs.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said only eight persons from Assam have so far applied for Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) since the rules for implementing the law were notified in March this year

Nepal’s president appointed Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli as prime minister for a fourth time yesterday, after his communist party forged a coalition government with the centre-left Nepali Congress.

An alliance of Myanmar ethnic minority armed groups yesterday said it had agreed on a four-day ceasefire with the junta in northern Shan state following clashes in which its fighters seized territory from the military along a strategic highway to China.

Former prime minister Imran Khan and his third wife were acquitted on charges of marrying unlawfully by a Pakistan court yesterday, but he will not be freed as authorities issued fresh orders to arrest him.

A landslide triggered by heavy rains buried and killed at least 11 people who were travelling in a van in northern Vietnam, the country's disaster management authority said on Saturday

Indonesian rescuers said Saturday they had ended the search for more than a dozen missing people after a landslide near an illegal gold mine killed at least 27

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his third wife were acquitted on charges of marrying unlawfully by a Pakistan court on Saturday, yet he will not be freed after authorities issued fresh orders to arrest him

India's opposition INDIA bloc, which put up a spirited performance in recent parliamentary polls, won 10 seats while BJP got two as votes were counted today for 13 assembly seats where by-elections were held on Wednesday across seven states

The International Monetary Fund said it reached a new $7 billion loan deal with Pakistan in a bid to bolster its faltering economy

Nepal is set for a new coalition government led by politician K P Sharma Oli after the more radical Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal lost a parliamentary vote of confidence yesterday, ending a tumultuous 20-month tenure.

India said yesterday it would hold an annual “Murder of the Constitution Day” from next year, commemorating a dark historical chapter tied to the family of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief political rival.

India’s main opposition Congress party yesterday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose an additional tax on the country’s billionaires to generate funds for stretched public services like education and health.