A protester was killed in firing during a clash between security forces and a mob that vandalised properties in the restive eastern Indian state of Manipur’s Jiribam district late on Sunday night, PTI reported yesterday.

The letter, sent by 46 Democrat and Republican lawmakers on Friday, was the second such communication in less than a month

Indian security forces have killed five Maoist rebels in jungle clashes, an officer said yesterday, as security forces seek to quash the decades-long insurgency in the central regions.

As fresh violence erupted in the Indian state of Manipur, the Congress renewed its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of “deliberately” keeping Manipur burning.

North Korea has evolved into a totalitarian regime characterised by dynastic succession, theocratic governance, and dictatorship since the Korean War

BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda today accused the JMM-led coalition government in Jharkhand of providing shelter to Bangladeshi infiltrators in madrasas and facilitating documents like Aadhaar and voter IDs for them

This prompted authorities to impose an indefinite curfew in seven districts of the northeastern state and suspend internet services

India marked a major milestone in defense technology with the successful flight trial of its indigenously developed long-range hypersonic missile yesterday

Police say a 21-year-old student went on a stabbing rampage in China's eastern city of Yixing, leaving at least 8 people dead and 17 wounded

After shaking hands to begin their meeting, Xi noted that Beijing's goals for stable ties with Washington remained unchanged

India's Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested a suspected drug trafficker in Kolkata in connection with attempted smuggling of nearly 15,000 bottles of Codeine-based cough syrup to Bangladesh, NCB said in a statement

A super typhoon sweeping towards the Philippines on Saturday was intensifying and could have a “potentially catastrophic” impact, the state weather forecaster warned, with millions of people at risk from storm surges.

Separatists fired on a paramilitary border post in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, killing seven soldiers, local authorities said yesterday, a week after the same militant group killed 26 people at a railway station.

A fire at the neonatal unit of an Indian hospital killed 10 newborns, authorities said yesterday, with another 39 rescued from a blaze blamed on a faulty oxygen machine.

An Indian state riven by months of ethnic tensions yesterday imposed an internet shutdown and curfew after angry protests over the recovery of six bodies of people believed to have been kidnapped by insurgents.

North Korea has recently shocked the international community by reportedly deploying troops to Russia amid the ongoing war in Ukraine

For the first time in nearly three decades, Bangladesh is conspicuously missing from the list of countries whose publishers will take part in next year’s Kolkata International Book Fair, according to a statement released today by the event’s organisers Publishers and Booksellers Guild

At least 10 children were killed in a fire that swept the children's ward of a medical college hospital in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district late last night, officials said

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition won a thumping victory in a snap general election, gaining power to push through his plans to fight poverty and graft in the island nation recovering from a financial meltdown.

Pakistan’s Punjab declared a health emergency due to toxic smog yesterday, banning construction, shutting schools for another week and moving universities online, with a 3-day lockdown possible, the province’s senior minister said yesterday.