Revision comes due to slow project implementation

Japan battled its worst wildfire in half a century yesterday in a region hit by record-low rainfall, as wet weather gave hope for some relief.

Air pollution spikes in Thailand, especially in the north, between December and April as farmers burn stubble to prepare land for the next crop season

At least 12 civilians were killed, including three children, and dozens injured Tuesday evening after two explosive-laden vehicles were detonated at an army compound in northwest Pakistan, officials said, with the attack quickly claimed by a militant group

About 90 percent of the global population of riverine dolphins is found in India

The International Court of Justice yesterday appointed Yuji Iwasawa as its new president, replacing Nawaf Salam, the new prime minister of Lebanon.

A woman suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Pakistani paramilitary troops in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan yesterday, killing at least one soldier and injuring four others, officials said.

Thousands of people evacuated from parts of northern Japan as the country’s largest wildfire in three decades raged unabated yesterday after killing at least one person, officials said.

Cars more than 15 years old will soon be barred from refuelling in New Delhi, the city’s government said yesterday, as part of measures to reduce the Indian capital’s hazardous pollution levels.

At least four people died from their injuries in India after an avalanche hit a remote border area, officials said Saturday, as rescuers deployed helicopters to search for the remaining five missing.

Militia fighters from rival ethnic groups in India’s conflict-torn Manipur have surrendered scores of guns and other gear looted from security forces, police said yesterday, days after the state was placed under New Delhi’s direct rule.

Beijing yesterday accused the United States of exerting “tariff pressure and blackmail” after President Donald Trump’s latest threat to slap an extra duty of 10 percent on imports from China, citing a continued flow of fentanyl into the country.

At least 57 labourers of India’s Border Roads Organization (BRO) were trapped under snow today after an avalanche struck the Himalayan village of Mana in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, officials said

China’s defence ministry said yesterday that drills which had alarmed Taiwan off its coast were “routine” and the island should stop complaining, as Taipei reported a surge in Chinese military activity, although no live-fire exercises.

India’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected a public interest litigation that sought protection of Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh, saying that the court cannot comment on the internal affairs of another country.

Pakistan authorities have sealed the home of an NGO chief who authored a report alleging widespread rigging in national elections last year, he told AFP on Saturday.

Myanmar handed over 300 Chinese scam centre workers to be repatriated through Thailand yesterday, as authorities intensify a crackdown on the illegal operations.

India’s anti-money laundering agency Enforcement Directorate (ED) has imposed a penalty of more than Rs 3.44 crore on BBC World Service India for alleged contravention of foreign direct investment (FDI) regulations, PTI reported yesterday quoting the agency officials.

A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed yesterday after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in the island’s worst such wildlife accident, police said.

A member of India’s ruling Hindu-nationalist party was sworn in yesterday as chief minister of Delhi after an election landslide handed it control of the capital for the first time in decades.