Sri Lanka’s president banned strikes in the health and electricity sectors yesterday as trade union action that has crippled state-run hospitals entered its sixth day.

In the wake of the row over hijab in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, writer Taslima Nasreen said burqa-hijab is no different from "chastity belt from the dark ages" and hoped that women will soon realise that.

India today reacted sharply to the comments Emanating from some countries on the hijab controversy in the southern state of Karnataka and said “motivated comments” on its internal issues “are not welcome”.

Two international journalists who were on an assignment for the UN refugee agency have been detained in the Afghan capital, the UNHCR said yesterday.

India is hoping to cut diesel use by farms to zero and migrate the agriculture sector to renewable energy as early as 2024, the country's power ministry said on Friday, as a part of its broader plan to transition to cleaner energy sources.

With Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly elections beginning, speculation is on whether Yogi Adityanath, the incumbent chief minister of the state, will be reelected to make a stronger bid to succeed Narendra Modi.

A student has moved to India’s Supreme Court challenging the direction of the Karnataka state High Court that asked students not to wear any religious clothes on campuses of educational institutions which can instigate people till the matter is resolved.

People in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday voted in the first of a series of local elections that will be a key test of the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling party.

Indonesia yesterday signed a deal with France to buy six Rafale warplanes as part of an anticipated total order of 42, Jakarta’s defence minister said, as Paris

South Korea’s leader warned yesterday that the peninsula could slide back into a “state of crisis” if Pyongyang follows through on threats to resume testing

India’s Karnataka State High Court today asked the students not to wear any religious cloth, whether hijab or saffron scarves, on campuses of educational institutions till the matter is resolved.

A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor said yesterday.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation today summoned actor and West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress lawmaker Deepak Adhikari, popularly known by his on-screen name Deb, in connection with its probe into a cattle smuggling racket along the border with Bangladesh, said CBI sources.

A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor said Wednesday.

India’s Congress party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today said that it is a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear.

An Indian High Court has urged students and people at large to maintain peace, saying only a “mischievous section will keep the issue burning” as the row over wearing hijab to class spread to various parts of the southern Indian state Karnataka.

The authorities in the southern Indian state of Karnataka today ordered closure of all high schools and colleges for next three days in the BJP-ruled state amidst an ongoing row over wearing hijab.

Indian army rescuers yesterday recovered the bodies of seven soldiers buried in an avalanche while on patrol along a remote Himalayan frontier contested by China.

Chinese scientists say they have developed a new coronavirus test that is accurate as a PCR lab test but gives results within four minutes. Polymerase chain

India convicted 49 people yesterday over a 2008 attack in the western city of Ahmedabad that left dozens dead, in what perpetrators said was retaliation for earlier deadly communal violence.