Afghanistan’s ambassador to China left a colourful resignation note for his post-Taliban takeover successor yesterday -- revealing that staff had not been paid for months and that a lone receptionist had been left to answer phones.

A Myanmar junta court yesterday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader, a source familiar with the proceedings said.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday said the Narendra Modi-led government was “a real and present threat to peace” in the region, adding that all minorities in India were at the target of extremist groups operating under the patronage of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

A suspected Bangladeshi cow smuggler was killed in a clash with the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Malda district and at least 17 Indian policemen were injured in a separate faceoff with cow smugglers along the border with Bangladesh Cooch Behar district’s Mekhliganj area in West Bengal.

India’s National Investigation Agency has filed a charge sheet against four Bangladeshi and one Indian operative of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) over their alleged involvement in radicalisation of Muslim youth and their recruitment by either JMB or Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), an NIA official said today.

What's in a name? For Indian travel start-up founder Kovid Kapoor, it has made him a social media sensation.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's official visit to Myanmar, his meeting with the self-declared State Administration Council leader Min Aung Hlaing, and their joint press statement, are a "brazen and dangerous" attempt to seize the initiative away from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN's) collective approach to the crisis in Myanmar, says a rights body today.

A Myanmar junta court on Monday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader.

An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday. 

India reported 159,632 new Covid-19 cases and 327 new deaths yesterday, as the Omicron variant continues to spread rapidly in the country, nudging several state governments to impose fresh restrictions.

A prominent Afghan university professor who openly criticised the Taliban’s hardline regime has been arrested in Kabul, a spokesman for the government said.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Sri Lanka yesterday seeking to advance Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative as the island nation tries to rescue itself from a foreign currency and debt crisis, partly due to infrastructure built with Chinese loans that don’t generate revenue. 

Colombian Victor Escobar became the first person in the Andean country with a non-terminal illness to die by legally regulated euthanasia late on Friday, his lawyer Luis Giraldo confirmed.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Sri Lanka on Sunday seeking to advance Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative as the island nation tries to rescue itself from a foreign currency and debt crisis, partly due to infrastructure built with Chinese loans that don’t generate revenue.

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, 96, successfully underwent an "elective medical procedure" and is expected to be discharged in a few days, the National Heart Institute said on Sunday.

Indian police today arrested the alleged creator of “Sulli Deals” App, which targeted Muslim women, from the central Indian city of Indore.

The Indian government renewed permission for late Catholic nun Mother Teresa’s charity to receive foreign funds, weeks after rejecting it, the organisation said yesterday. 

The Taliban’s religious police have put up posters around the capital Kabul ordering Afghan women to cover up, an official said Friday, the latest in a string of creeping restrictions. 

Indian election commission yesterday announced dates for Assembly elections in five states - Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Punjab, and Uttarakhand. The five states will vote over seven phases starting February 10, with counting of votes scheduled for March 10. 

At least 21 people died in an enormous traffic jam caused by tens of thousands of visitors thronging a Pakistani hill town to see unusually heavy snowfall, authorities said yesterday.