Shares in the business empire of Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani nosedived yesterday, extending this week’s losses to $45 billion, days after a US investment firm claimed it had committed “brazen” corporate fraud.

Nepal’s top court yesterday barred combative deputy prime minister Rabi Lamichhane from office for failing to regain citizenship in the Himalayan republic after giving up his US passport.

The IMF will send a team to Pakistan next week to discuss reviving a desperately needed bailout programme, with a foreign exchange crisis bringing imports almost to a standstill.

A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ramps up military infrastructure in the region.

Myanmar’s ruling junta yesterday announced tough requirements for parties to contest an election this year, including a huge increase in their membership, a move that could sideline the military’s opponents and cement its grip on politics.

India has issued a notice to Pakistan for modification of a 62-year-old World Bank-brokered treaty on the cross-border Indus river waters following Islamabad's "intransigence" on its implementation, official sources said today.

A man armed with a Kalashnikov shot dead an official in charge of security at Azerbaijan's embassy in Tehran today and wounded two embassy guards, the foreign ministry said.

A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ramps up military infrastructure in the region.

Shares of India's Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) sank 20% on Friday as a scathing report by a US short seller triggered a rout in the conglomerate's listed firms, casting doubts on how investors will respond to the company's record $2.45 billion secondary offer.

The Palestinian Authority yesterday said it was suspending security coordination with Israel after a deadly army raid in the occupied West Bank, a move that could significantly impact Palestinian civilians.

More than 160 people have died from the cold in Afghanistan this month in the worst winter in more than a decade, authorities said yesterday, as residents described being unable to afford fuel to heat homes in temperatures well below freezing.

Both North and South Korea violated the armistice that governs their shared border by sending drones into each other’s airspace in December, the US-led United Nations Command (UNC) said yesterday.

Opium cultivation in military-ruled Myanmar jumped 33 percent last year, reversing a six-year downward trend in the strife-torn country, a United Nations report said yesterday.

India showcased its military and its cultural diversity in a colourful parade yesterday at the revamped colonial avenue in New Delhi to mark Republic Day, the anniversary of the day the country’s secular Constitution came into effect in 1950.

Eight people are dead, including six Chinese nationals, after a ship sank in waters off the coast of Japan, a Chinese diplomat told state media today.

Opium poppy production in Myanmar ramped up dramatically following the 2021 military coup, the UN's drugs office said Thursday, as political and economic turmoil drove farmers to cultivate the crop..The country's economy has been paralysed following the military power grab in February 2021

The United Nations is pushing the Taliban administration in Afghanistan for more exemptions to its ban on most female aid workers, top UN officials said on Wednesday, while also expressing concern that foreign women working for international organizations and embassies could next be targeted.

Indian students said they would show again a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the government has dismissed as propaganda after a Tuesday campus screening was disrupted by a power cut and intimidation by opponents.

North Korea has ordered a five-day lockdown in the capital over “respiratory illness”, a report said yesterday, in what appears to be the first citywide restrictions since the country declared victory over Covid-19 in August 2022.

An aide to former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on Wednesday for criticising election officials, police said, the