A suicide bombing outside district court buildings in the Pakistani capital Islamabad killed at least 12 people and wounded 27 yesterday, the interior minister said.

Inaugurated India-funded 1020 MW hydroelectric power project

Pakistani Taliban claimed a suicide bombing that killed at least 12 people in Islamabad

The death toll was confirmed to Dawn by a senior Islamabad police official

Cambodia said the situation on the border 'remains calm'

At least eight people were killed and 20 injured yesterday when a car exploded near the historic Red Fort in India’s capital, police said, a rare blast in the heavily guarded city of more than 30 million people.

Explosion in Hyundai i20 triggered fire; multiple states on high alert

South Korean prosecutors indicted Yoon Suk Yeol on new charges of aiding the enemy

Indonesia added former president Suharto to a list of "national heroes" during a ceremony on Monday

Over 400 flights have been cancelled since Sunday

Malaysian authorities have recovered at least seven bodies after a boat carrying migrants capsized near the Thai border, a maritime agency official said yesterday.

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its main rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are set for a collision course as the Election Commission of India (ECI) undertakes a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state’s electoral roll ahead of assembly polls slated for March-April next year

Around 300 migrants were on board; one dead, dozens missing

Pakistan Navy ship “PNS Saif” arrived at the Chattogram port yesterday on a four-day goodwill visit to Bangladesh.

Peace talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan broke down, although a ceasefire continues between the South Asian neighbours, a Taliban spokesperson said yesterday.

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The two countries met in Istanbul on Thursday to try to finalise a truce agreed on October 19 in Qatar

Five people were killed and six were wounded in brief cross-border fire between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Thursday afternoon, a hospital official on the Afghan side told AFP, in an incident both countries blamed on each other.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile yesterday, Seoul’s military said, around a week after US President Donald Trump approved South Korea’s plan to build a nuclear-powered submarine.

The commissioning of China’s latest aircraft carrier this week marks a new chapter in its military modernisation effort but security analysts and regional diplomats say tough challenges lie ahead before it can be made fully operational.