Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation this year is up by a third, the UN’s drugs agency said yesterday, in its first report on the issue since the hardline Taliban took power in 2021.

South Korean police yesterday admitted their emergency response to a deadly Halloween crush had been “insufficient”, with top officials saying crowd management failures had likely contributed to the disaster.

Single father Mahesh spent every night of his final weeks cruising the streets of Morbi on his new scooter.

The Indian government has decided to grant citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians coming from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who are currently living in two districts of the western Indian state of Gujarat under the Citizenship Act, 1955.

Former Tata Steel MD Dr Jamshed J Irani, whose 43-year association with the company earned him the epithet “Steel Man of India“, died late on Monday (October 31, 2022) in Jamshedpur’s Tata Main Hospital. He was 86.

Proper crowd and traffic control by South Korean authorities could have prevented or at least reduced the surge of Halloween party-goers in alleys that led to a crush and the deaths of 154 people, safety experts said on Monday.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan won another national assembly seat in a weekend by-election, officials said yesterday, as he leads a so-called “long march” of thousands of supporters to Islamabad.

The death toll from a foot bridge collapse in India rose to 141 yesterday, including many children, as police detained nine people as part of a criminal investigation into one of the deadliest accidents in the country in the past decade.

Russia’s weekend backtrack from a UN-brokered deal to export Black Sea grains is likely to hit shipments to import-dependent countries, deepening a global food crisis and sparking gains in prices.

The death toll in the collapse of a suspension bridge in Mobri town of western Indian state Gujarat rose to 134, many of them being children.

Chattogram will be linked by air with Agartala, the capital city of north eastern Indian state of Tripura, India’s Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia announced yesterday (October 30, 2022).

The death toll due to the collapse of a suspension bridge over a river in western Indian state of Gujarat’s Morbi town mounted to 132 this morning (October 31, 2022) as rescue officials fished out more bodies.

Sadaf Naeem, a reporter covering the PTI’s long march for Channel 5, was crushed to death during an accident near Sadhoke on Sunday.

The Indian government has urged the Supreme Court to dismiss pleas challenging the validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), saying it is a “focused law” which grants citizenship only to members of six specified communities who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

At least 81 people were killed when a pedestrian bridge over a river in the Indian state of Gujarat collapsed yesterday, plunging hundreds of people into the water, officials said.

At least 81 people were killed when a nearly century-old suspension bridge on a river in western Indian state Gujarat's Morbi town collapsed on Sunday, reports Reuters.

South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a period of national mourning on Sunday after a Halloween crush killed some 151 people in a packed nightlife area in Seoul.

A Pakistani known for being the oldest detainee at the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba was released to his home country yesterday, the South Asian country’s foreign ministry said.

At least 146 people were killed in a stampede when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween crammed into an alley in a night life area of the South Korean capital Seoul yesterday night, emergency officials said. 

India today (October 29, 2022) enforced amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 saying it was meant to protect the rights of citizens but critics allege the move is aimed at controlling the social media and big tech firms like Meta.