India’s Supreme Court today quashed the Bombay High Court verdict which had held that no offence of sexual assault -- under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act -- is committed if there is no “skin-to-skin contact” between an accused and the victim.

The United Nations has adopted a resolution on the "situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar" for the first time by consensus.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for two explosions that hit a heavily Shi'ite Muslim area of the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding at least six others including three women.

Pakistan’s parliament yesterday passed a law allowing electronic vote counting despite furious protests from the opposition which said it had been pushed through by the government to rig the next election.

A Russian-brokered ceasefire was holding yesterday at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, officials said, a day after deadly clashes

The Taliban yesterday called on US Congress members to release Afghan assets frozen after their takeover of the country, warning economic turmoil at home could lead to trouble abroad.

An Indian comedian and actor has been forced to defend himself against online accusations of “insulting the country” after he performed a “two Indias” monologue in Washington.

India’s capital has shut schools, colleges and coal plants as it battles dangerous levels of air pollution in the region that yesterday left residents of Lahore in neighbouring Pakistan choking on acrid smog.

Hackers from Pakistan used Facebook to target people in Afghanistan with connections to the previous government during the Taliban's takeover of the country, the company's threat investigators said in an interview with Reuters.

Myanmar’s junta has charged ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with committing electoral fraud during the 2020 polls, state media reported yesterday.

How humanity confronts climate change may come down to the intentions behind two words.

India is always vigilant to stop the killings on borders with Bangladesh, and such casualty is unexpected for the both countries, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami said today.

The West Bengal state legislative assembly today passed a resolution against the Indian government’s decision to extend the Border Security Force’s jurisdiction to conduct seize operations and make arrests. 

Market-stand owner Kadriye Dogru makes do with stale, sesame-covered bagels, known as simit, for lunch these days. The widowed mother of two says she goes without lunch so she can put food on the table for her family later in the day.

India has extended the ban imposed on Zakir Naik's organisation Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) by five years.

Thousands of children in the Philippines were allowed to return to classrooms yesterday for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as a pilot re-opening of schools got under way.

China is battling the spread of its biggest Covid-19 outbreak caused by the Delta variant, according to numbers announced yesterday, with travellers from a city where infections have grown faster than elsewhere in the country subject to tough quarantine rules in nearby areas.

US journalist Danny Fenster was “pardoned” before being deported from Myanmar where he had been sentenced to 11 years in jail and was to face further terror and sedition charges, the junta said yesterday.

The Taliban have launched a crackdown on suspected Islamic State hideouts in southern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, following an increase in bloody attacks by the group in recent weeks.

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are looking to sign a preferential trade agreement (PTA) as they seek to improve trade relations and connectivity, both via air and sea.