India's green cover went up by 1,445 sq km from 2021 to 2023, reaching 25.17 per cent of its geographical area, according to official data made public today

Md Sad Radi, a Bangladeshi national from Rajshahi, was apprehended in Kerala without valid travel documents

The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more

Sri Lanka’s navy said yesterday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port.

Japanese authorities yesterday carried out an inspection of a US military base in Tokyo, a government spokesman said, after being informed by the American side of a chemical leak.

India’s Rahul Gandhi is under police investigation over a scuffle between opposition members of parliament and those from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which injured two lawmakers, police said yesterday.

Provincial authorities in northwestern Pakistan said yesterday they planned to collect heavy weapons to stop sectarian clashes that have killed hundreds, but tribesmen in the historically lawless region said they would not give up their arms.

A senior White House official on Thursday said nuclear-armed Pakistan is developing long-range ballistic missile capabilities that eventually could allow it to strike targets well beyond South Asia, making it an “emerging threat” to the United States.

Indian militant groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming back across the border to Manipur state this year, Indian security officers said, inflaming the bitter 19-month ethnic conflict there with weapons and battle-hardened cadres.

The mortal remains of tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were laid to rest on Thursday at a cemetery near San Francisco as renowned Indian percussionist A Sivamani and other artistes performed on their drums at a little distance away in a tribute to the departed artist.

Sri Lanka's navy said Friday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port

India has successfully conducted the first-ever satellite tagging of its national aquatic animal, the river dolphin, in the Ganges yesterday

At least 100 North Koreans deployed to support Russia's war effort in Ukraine have been killed since entering combat in December, South Korean lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun told reporters Thursday

Thirteen persons were killed and 99 rescued yesterday after an Indian Navy craft crashed into a ferry off the coast of Mumbai, the Navy said

India’s ruling party yesterday tabled a parliamentary bill to synchronise state and national elections, a proposal that would vastly extend what is already the world’s largest democratic exercise.

China is ready to work with India to enhance mutual trust through dialogue and communication, and manage differences with sincerity and integrity, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

Bangladesh’s electricity imports from an Adani Power plant in India fell by nearly a third in November, Indian government data showed, pushing the south Asian nation to boost fuel oil use for power generation.

The measure, which is effective immediately, was announced by the National Immigration Administration (NIA) on its official Wechat account

MPs staged a protest in parliament demanding justice

Myanmar’s ruling junta has suppressed information about a severe food crisis gripping the country by pressuring researchers not to collect data about hunger and aid workers not to publish it, a Reuters investigation has found.