An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 hit southern Pakistan in the early hours of yesterday, killing 20 people, most of them women and children, and injuring about 300, at a time when many victims were asleep, authorities said.

Dengue affects tens of millions each year, producing brutal symptoms that have earned it the moniker “breakbone fever,” but new research may have found the first-ever treatment for the virus.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted Tokyo and surrounding areas late on Thursday, stopping train lines and causing sporadic power cuts, but there were no reports of major damage, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said.

India today said it would start granting fresh tourist visas to foreigners coming by chartered flights from October 15 and foreign tourists coming by non-chartered flights from November 15.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as a member of the state legislative assembly today, a week after she won the by-poll in the Bhabanipur constituency in south Kolkata by a record margin.

North Korea's most vulnerable risk starvation after it slipped deeper into isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic and UN sanctions imposed for its nuclear and missile programmes should be eased, a UN rights investigator said in report seen by Reuters.

India’s Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari plans to make it mandatory for ambulances across the country have instrumental sounds instead of wailing sirens.

Around 20 people have been after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit southern Pakistan in darkness early on Thursday, government officials said.

The Gauhati High Court has taken cognisance of the eviction drive at Dhalpur in Assam’s Darrang district that claimed two lives on September 23.

In a departure from tradition, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will administer the oath to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a member of the state legislative assembly in Kolkata today.

Singapore has trialled patrol robots that blast warnings at people engaging in “undesirable social behaviour”, adding to an arsenal of surveillance technology in the tightly controlled city-state that is fuelling privacy concerns.

India’s school closures and its children’s lack of smartphone and internet facilities amidst the Covid-19 pandemic have worsened an educational divide, the UN cultural agency said, flagging risks to young people’s futures.

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday ordered a probe into his niece’s overseas wealth after she and her husband were alleged in the Pandora Papers to have millions of dollars stashed abroad.

1737 - A cyclone causes 40 foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Kolkata, India.

Southeast Asian nations are discussing whether to exclude Myanmar’s junta chief from a summit due to slow progress on a plan to address turmoil after a coup in the country earlier this year, a top diplomat said yesterday.

Military tensions between China and Taiwan are at their highest in four decades, the island’s defence minister warned yesterday, adding Beijing would be in a position to launch a full-scale invasion in 2025.

With record numbers of military flights near Taiwan over the last week, China has been showing a new intensity and military sophistication as it steps up its harassment of the island it claims as its own and asserts its territorial ambitions in the region.

Thanks to K-pop and the rise of blockbuster Korean films such as "Parasite", South Korean culture continues to gain popularity worldwide and the latest update in the Oxford English Dictionary proves it.

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not call any defence witnesses at her incitement trial in a junta court, her lawyer said yesterday, as the military hit a detained US journalist with another criminal charge.

Malaysia late Monday summoned Beijings’s envoy to the Southeast Asian country in protest after Chinese vessels entered its maritime economic zone in the disputed South China Sea.