At least four mountaineers were killed yesterday in an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas, with around 25 others stuck in a crevasse, officials said.

The chief of the prison service in Indian Kashmir has been murdered, police said yesterday, as the powerful interior minister visited the disputed Himalayan region that has been riven by a decades-long insurgency.

Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile farther than ever before yesterday, sending it soaring over Japan, for the first time in five years, and prompting a warning for residents there to take cover.

Elite Indonesian police officers were under investigation yesterday over a stadium stampede that killed 131 people including dozens of children in one of the deadliest disasters in football history.

Ten mountaineers died in an avalanche that swept a peak in the Himalayas in north Indian state of Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district today, officials said.

Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting a warning for residents to take cover and a temporary suspension of train operations in northern Japan.

India yesterday unveiled its first batch of locally-made attack helicopters, designed primarily for use in high-altitude areas like the Himalayas where its troops clashed with China in 2020.

A Pakistani court yesterday accepted an apology tendered by former prime minister Imran Khan and dropped a contempt of court case against him, his defence lawyer said, a ruling that ease the threat to him of disqualification from politics.

Forty-six girls and young women were among those killed in a suicide bombing on an Afghan education centre last week, the UN said yesterday as it announced the total death toll had risen to 53.

Beatles fans have hailed the release of never-before-seen footage showing the Fab Four on tour in Japan, following a fierce court battle over the 35-minute video.

A stampede at a football stadium in Indonesia has killed at least 125 people and injured more than 320 after police sought to quell violence on the field, authorities said yesterday, in one of the world’s worst stadium disasters.

Pakistan’s Cabinet has formally given the go-ahead to hold an inquiry into the audio leaks purportedly featuring PTI Chairman Imran Khan and his party leaders, it emerged yesterday.

Authorities dispersed a women’s rally in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat yesterday, with protesters claiming they were beaten by Taliban forces who fired shots in the air.

A tractor pulling a trolley packed with religious pilgrims in India overturned and plunged into a pond, killing 26 and seriously injuring 16, officials said yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s government yesterday cut taxes on female sanitary products in a bid to help women and girls unable to afford them because of the country’s economic crisis.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Sunday approved the pre-arrest bail of PTI chief Imran Khan, a day after an arrest warrant was issued for the former premier in connection with his controversial remarks against Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Zeba Chaudhry and other officials at an August 20 public rally.

Indian President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top opposition leader Sonia Gandhi today (October 2, 2022) paid tributes to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on his 153rd birth anniversary.

At least 22 people were killed and several others critically injured when a tractor-trolley overturned and fell into a pond near a village in Kanpur district of India's Uttar Pradesh state yesterday (October 1, 2022).

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles early yesterday, South Korea’s military said, the nuclear-armed country’s fourth launch this week as Seoul, Tokyo and Washington ramp up joint military drills to counter Pyongyang.

The contest for Congress’ presidential poll was narrowed down yesterday to a straight square-off between Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge after the rejection of the nomination paper of third candidate  K N Tripathi.