Sri Lanka has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of about $2.9 billion, the global lender said on Thursday, as the country seeks a way out its worst economic crisis in decades.

China's "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country's Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.

India will unfurl a new naval flag that retires a British colonial symbol to mark the formal debut of the country’s first locally built aircraft carrier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office said.

Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was given an additional week to answer contempt of court charges brought against him for criticising a magistrate,

A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners yesterday

Afghanistan’s Taliban marked the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led forces yesterday by calling on the international community to “learn” from the experience and accept them as the legitimate government.

Army helicopters flew sorties over cut-off areas in Pakistan’s mountainous north yesterday and rescue parties fanned out across waterlogged plains in the south as misery mounted for millions trapped by the worst floods in the country’s history.

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was in hospital Wednesday (August 31, 2022) after testing positive for coronavirus for the first time.

Taiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone which buzzed an offshore islet on Tuesday shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan's military to take "strong countermeasures" against what she termed Chinese provocations.

The United Nations yesterday appealed for $160 million to help Pakistan as army helicopters rescued stranded families and dropped food packages into inaccessible areas following “epochal” rains and flooding.z

India’s Supreme Court today (August 30, 2022) drew curtains on cases relating to two key sensitive issues – Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 and the Gujarat riots in 2002 – which embroiled the country’s politics for decades.

On August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed along with most of his family members and a government of turncoats was installed in power.

Delhi was the least safe metropolitan city for women in India in the year 2021, according to the latest official data.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will on Tuesday slash defence and other expenditures in a bid to win International Monetary Fund (IMF) support as he presents his first budget since taking over as leader of his crisis-hit country.

As India’s capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80 percent of pollutants.

India has accused China of “militarisation of the Taiwan Strait”, in an escalating war of words triggered by a Chinese military ship docking in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port.

Tens of millions of people across swathes of Pakistan were battling the worst monsoon floods in a decade yesterday, with countless homes washed away, vital farmland destroyed, and the country’s main river threatening to burst its banks.

A new work pass - the Overseas Networks and Expertise Pass - will be open for applications from Jan 1 next year, to attract top talent across all sectors.

As India's capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80 percent of pollutants.

India likely recorded strong double-digit economic growth in the last quarter but economists polled by Reuters expected the pace to more than halve this quarter and slow further toward the end of the year as interest rates rise.