Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been admitted to a specialist heart hospital for the third time in the space of a few weeks, a spokesperson said Saturday.

At least seven persons were killed and 19 others injured in a major fire that broke out on the 18th floor of a 20-storey building in India’s financial capital Mumbai today, officials said.

Myanmar’s junta sentenced a member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s ousted party to death for terror offences yesterday, a statement said.

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the daughters of a male Hindu dying without a will would be entitled to inherit father’s self-acquired and other properties obtained in the partition.

China yesterday condemned a French parliament resolution that accuses Beijing of carrying out a genocide against its Uyghur Muslim population, a move that has strained ties two weeks before the Winter Olympics. 

India today said it has ordered the blocking of 35 Pakistan-based YouTube-based news channels and two websites which were involved in spreading anti-India fake news in a coordinated fashion over digital media.

A grand granite statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, an iconic leader of India’s independence struggle, would be installed at the India Gate in New Delhi “as a symbol of the country’s indebtedness to him,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the daughters of a male Hindu dying without a will would be entitled to inherit father’s self-acquired and other properties obtained in the partition.

North Korea yesterday hinted it could resume nuclear and long-range weapons tests as it prepares for “confrontation” with Washington -- its latest threat after a string of sanctions-busting missile launches. 

At least two people were killed and 22 wounded yesterday by a bomb blast in a busy shopping district of the Pakistani megacity of Lahore,

Myanmar's military has arrested three people working for the independent news portal Dawei Watch, an editor at the publication said on Thursday (January 20), the latest detentions under a media crackdown that has occurred since last year's coup.

India’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur today warned that any website or YouTube channel found to “conspire against India” will be blocked.

A bomb blast ripped through a crowded market in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, killing three people and wounding over 20, police said.

The Taliban’s prime minister yesterday called on Muslim nations to be the first to officially recognise their government, as aid-dependent Afghanistan faces economic collapse. 

Three Indian naval personnel were killed in an explosion on one of the country’s oldest destroyers at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, authorities said. The blast

The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the UN, is scheduled to hold public hearings of the case concerning genocide against the Rohingyas in Myanmar, from February 21-28.

A Chinese couple who were trapped on a never-ending date thanks to a coronavirus lockdown have been relieved to find that love, not Covid-19, is in the air.

Housewife Maira Tayyab has considered begging for money to feed her family in inflation-hit Pakistan, while shop owner Mohammad Hanif finds his thoughts turning to crime.

The Indian government has shut down the Kashmir Press Club, prompting an outcry from journalists, politicians and others who called the move further evidence of efforts to silence critical reporting in the disputed territory.

Public trust in governments running the world’s democracies has fallen to new lows over their handling of the pandemic and amid a widespread sense of economic pessimism, a global survey has found.