The United Nations yesterday warned of a worsening food crisis in bankrupt Sri Lanka and said the number of people needing urgent humanitarian help had doubled to 3.4 million.

Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan blocked roads near the capital yesterday, disrupting traffic and forcing schools to close, as they protested against a bid to assassinate their leader at a recent anti-government rally.

The water in northeastern Indian state Arunachal Pradesh's Siang River, which is known as the Brahmaputra in the rest of India and Bangladesh, has turned muddy, indicating landslide or possible construction activity in upstream China, officials said.

The United Nations Tuesday warned of a worsening food crisis in bankrupt Sri Lanka and said the number of people needing urgent humanitarian help had doubled to 3.4 million.

After Pakistan Supreme Court warned that it would initiate suo motu proceedings if the Punjab police failed to register an FIR regarding the assassination attempt on former prime minister Imran Khan, the provincial police finally registered the case under terrorism charges, with detained suspect Naveed being nominated as the prime accused.

The North Korean military said its response to US-South Korean war drills would be “resolute and overwhelming”, state media reported yesterday.

Primary schools will reopen in India’s capital New Delhi this week and curbs will be lifted on certain construction activities, authorities said yesterday, after pollution levels improved to the ‘very poor’ category from ‘severe’.

China reported its highest daily Covid caseload in six months yesterday, despite grinding lockdowns that have heavily disrupted manufacturing, education and day-to-day life.

A court in India’s Bengaluru has ordered to temporarily block the Twitter handle of Congress after a music firm filed a copyright case against the party for playing a song from the movie KGF-2 at the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.

Five suspended students of Delhi’s South Asian University (SAU) started an indefinite hunger strike this (November 7, 2022) afternoon after the SAU admin on (November 4, 2022) took action against them including a Bangladeshi PhD candidate over a protest to increase stipend and scholarships.

Indonesia said Monday the number of child deaths from kidney failure or damage linked to harmful substances found in syrup medicines has risen to 195.

After 70 years apart, childhood friends Xu Guizhen and Cao Zhenwei have been reunited and got married at the sprightly age of 94, He Qi reports in Shanghai.

The PTI’s long march, which came to a standstill after the assassination attempt on Imran Khan in Wazirabad, will resume its journey on Tuesday (tomorrow) from the same place where the party chairman was injured in the gun attack.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said yesterday he welcomed the government’s offer to launch a judicial commission to investigate the attack in which he was shot in the leg on Thursday.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan left hospital on Sunday, a senior aide said, three days after being shot in the legs in a failed assassination attempt.

More than 80 Rohingya people seeking to travel by boat to Malaysia have been detained in Myanmar’s southeast after traffickers abandoned them, a security source told AFP yesterday.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has demanded Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial to constitute a “full court commission” to probe allegations levelled by PTI Chairman Imran Khan wherein he accused the premier, interior minister and a senior military official of orchestrating the failed assassination attempt on him.

Mahathir Mohamad, the nearly 100-year-old elder statesman of Malaysian politics, yesterday filed his candidacy in what is likely to be his final race, as campaigning for upcoming general elections began.

K-pop band NCT 127 was forced to end their first concert in Indonesia early after 30 people fainted in a crush, police said.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan yesterday accused the current premier Shehbaz Sharif, interior minister Rana Sanaullah and a senior army commander of plotting a botched assassination attempt that left him wounded.