In his first public comments on the developments in Bangladesh, Modi expresses hope that the situation in the country normalises soon.

At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, with the future of an entire generation now "in jeopardy", the United Nations' cultural agency said Thursday

West Bengal Chief Ninister Mamata Banerjee yesterday accused BJP and CPI (M) of trying to hold Bangladesh-like protests and topple her government after the opposition leaders demanded her resignation in the wake of rape and murder of a medical student in Kolkata

Thailand’s Constitutional Court yesterday dismissed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for “grossly” violating ethics by appointing a minister who had served jail time, raising the spectre of political upheaval and a shakeup in the governing alliance.

India is keen on working with the interim government of Bangladesh led by Prof Muhammad Yunus “to fulfil the shared aspirations of peoples of both countries”, said Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma yesterday.

India’s Supreme Court today refused to grant interim bail to jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a corruption case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) regarding an alleged excise policy scam

A team of senior officers of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation today reached Kolkata to investigate the rape and murder of a doctor at a state-run hospital in the city, an incident which sparked outrage among doctors, leading to a third day of strikes

An Adani Power coal-fired power plant under contract to sell all its output to Bangladesh can now supply the domestic market as the government has amended its power export rules.

Data from Nasa’s Mars InSight lander shows evidence of liquid water far below the surface of the fourth planet, advancing the search for life there and showing what might have happened to Mars’ ancient oceans.

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi will visit Myanmar and Thailand from August 14 to 17, Beijing’s foreign ministry said yesterday.

Crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the Myanmar military have “escalated at an alarming rate”, UN investigators warned yesterday, citing systematic torture, gang rape and abuses against children.

Taliban authorities yesterday accused Pakistani forces of killing three civilians -- a woman and two children -- in clashes along their northern border.

China flew its biggest-yet unmanned cargo aircraft designed for civilian use, as the world’s top drone-making nation steps up test flights of autonomous aerial vehicles (UAVs) that could ultimately ferry everything from takeouts to people.

Indian doctors in government hospitals across several states halted elective services “indefinitely” yesterday to protest the rape and murder of a young medic.

India’s market regulator chief yesterday rejected allegations by US short-seller Hindenburg Research that claimed past offshore investments may have prevented her from properly investigating corporate malfeasance allegations against the Adani Group.

China supports Iran in defending its “sovereignty, security and national dignity”, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi told Iran’s acting foreign minister in a phone call yesterday, according to a statement by China’s foreign ministry.

A drone attack on Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to identify dead and injured relatives.

India’s foreign minister has called the Maldives a “priority” for New Delhi on his first trip to the archipelago nation since its pro-China president expelled Indian troops.

Two government ministers who defected from Sri Lanka’s main opposition were sacked from the cabinet yesterday, after the Supreme Court upheld disciplinary action against them.

Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa’s news website Rappler won an appeal to restore its corporate licence after a court overturned a regulator’s decision to shutter the media company.