Voters queued outside polling stations in India’s Jammu and Kashmir yesterday to vote in the first provincial election being held in a decade in the Himalayan region that has grappled with years of militant violence.

Myanmar’s military government has ramped up killings and arrests in an apparent bid to silence opponents and recruit soldiers in an escalating conflict, with tens of thousands detained since a 2021 coup, a UN report said on Tuesday.

Deadly floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Yagi have affected nearly six million children across Southeast Asia, the UN said yesterday, as the death toll from the disaster rose.

A Chinese aircraft carrier sailed between two Japanese islands near Taiwan for the first time, Japan’s military said yesterday, in the latest move by Beijing to anger the close US ally.

Deadly floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Yagi have affected nearly six million children across Southeast Asia, the UN said Wednesday, as the death toll from the disaster rose.

The doctors made the announcement at the end of their governing body meeting started around 6.30 pm and ended at about 1:00am

Many in the disputed Muslim-majority territory of 8.7 million registered voters remain bitter over the 2019 order by the Hindu-nationalist government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose control from New Delhi

Arvind Kejriwal, a top political opponent of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, quit as chief minister of the capital Delhi yesterday, days after being released on bail in a corruption case.

India’s top court yesterday ordered authorities to pause demolishing private property as punitive action against people accused of criminal activity, condemning the so-called “bulldozer justice”.

India has condemned comments made by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the treatment of Muslims in the South Asian nation, calling his remarks “misinformed and unacceptable”.

The Chinese military tailed a US aircraft that was passing through the politically sensitive Taiwan Strait yesterday, Beijing’s army said, vowing to “resolutely defend national sovereignty”.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced the removal of Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal and Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Abhishek Gupta last night

Senior AAP leader and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia reached Kejriwal's official residence to discuss with him the names of probables for the chief minister's post

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan granted bail on Monday to 10 MPs from former prime minister Imran Khan's party, an AFP journalist witnessed

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal yesterday said that he will resign as chief minister of the Delhi regional government in two days.

Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar yesterday as the country’s death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge more than doubled and remote areas reported increasing numbers of dead and missing

Jharkhand, ruled by JMM in alliance with Congress, braces for fresh assembly elections due later this year

He was released from jail on bail on Friday

Charge of tampering with evidence added against former principal of medical college

The Maldives says its financial troubles are “temporary” and the luxury tourist destination has no plans to seek an International Monetary Fund bailout after warnings of a possible sovereign default.