Sri Lanka will call China, India and Japan to a donor conference to drum up more foreign assistance and present an interim budget in August, the prime minister said yesterday, amid ongoing negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 

An estimated 2,000 homes have been destroyed by the deadly earthquake in Afghanistan, and a lack of machinery is hampering a rush to find survivors, a UN envoy said Wednesday.

Yoga guru Swami Ramdev claimed on Wednesday that a few people are "creating disorder" in the nation to "throw" Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah from office. He called the demonstrations against the Agnipath plan "meaningless politics."

Sri Lanka’s debt-laden economy has “collapsed” after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, its prime minister told lawmakers Wednesday, in comments underscoring the country’s dire situation as it seeks help from international lenders.

The earthquake today that killed at least 1,000 people in eastern Afghanistan and injured hundreds more is the deadliest in the country in nearly a quarter of a century.

Atta Tarar, the home minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, announced on Sunday (June 19, 2022) that an emergency will be declared due to a sharp rise in the number of reported cases of sexual assault against women and children.

A powerful earthquake struck a remote border region of Afghanistan overnight killing at least 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more, officials said Wednesday, with the toll expected to rise as desperate rescuers dig through collapsed dwellings.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed at least 280 people in Afghanistan early on Wednesday, officials said, adding that hundreds of people were injured and the toll was likely to rise as information trickled in from remote mountain villages.

The Sri Lankan cabinet has approved constitutional reforms that will limit the powers of the president in a move aimed at appeasing the protesters calling for

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party today nominated tribal female leader Draupadi Murmu as its candidate for next month's elections for the country's top constitutional post of President.

Opposition political parties in India today announced that they will field former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha as their candidate to contest for the post of India’s President, the highest constitutional office in the country, in the next month’s election.

The successful launch of South Korea’s homegrown space rocket Nuri, officially the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II, on Tuesday added the country as the seventh nation in the world to have developed a space launch vehicle that can carry a satellite of more than 1 ton. The list begins with Russia, the US and France. China, Japan and India later joined the exclusive club of spacefaring nations.

A crowd stormed an India-backed public yoga session in the Maldives today (June 21, 2022), with police in the South Asian tourist paradise firing tear gas to clear the mob.

A city is rising from the Indian Ocean. The floating city large enough to house 20,000 people is being built in a turquoise lagoon – just 10 minutes by boat from Male, the Maldivian capital, CNN reports.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today led the country’s celebration of the International Day of Yoga at the main event in the iconic royal palace of Mysuru, in the southern Karnataka state.

A High Court in India has ruled that a Muslim girl over the age of 16 is competent to enter into a contract of marriage with a person of her choice.

India’s annual monsoon rainfall has covered more than half of the country and conditions are favourable for it to advance into central, northern and western regions this week, the weather department said yesterday.

Authorities in India yesterday cancelled more than 500 trains services because of calls for protests by young men angry with a military recruitment plan that they say will rob them of the opportunity of a career in the armed forces.

China has carried out a land-based missile interception test that “achieved its expected purpose”, the Defence Ministry said, describing it as defensive and not aimed at any country.

Sri Lanka closed schools and halted all non-essential government services yesterday, beginning a two-week shutdown to conserve fast-depleting fuel reserves as the International Monetary Fund opened talks with Colombo on a possible bailout.