Pakistan’s flooded southern Sindh province yesterday braced for a fresh deluge from swollen rivers in the north as the death toll from this year’s monsoon topped 1,000.

Afghan defence minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid yesterday accused Pakistan of providing airspace for US drones to enter his country, characterising the incursions as a continuation of Washington’s “invasion”. Mujahid’s comments came less than a month after US President Joe Biden announced the killing of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul.

Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe.”

Two mortar shells from Myanmar side were fired across the border today (August 28, 2022) at Tumbru area under Bandarban's Naikhyangchhari upazila creating panic among locals.

Indian authorities demolished two illegally constructed skyscrapers in a wide plume of dust debris on Sunday near the capital New Delhi, razing the tallest structures ever pulled down in the country in less than 10 seconds.

Pakistan witnessed another day of deaths and devastation yesterday as dozens of people were left dead and thousands stranded as a result of landslides and floods in the country’s north amid “high to very high” floods in Kabul and Indus rivers.

Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in yesterday as India’s Chief Justice for the Supreme Court, though he is only set to hold the post for 74 days before his retirement falls due in November.

Japan pledged $30 billion in aid for development in Africa yesterday, saying it wants to work more closely with the continent, with the rules-based international order under threat after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Tens of thousands of people fled their homes in northern Pakistan on Saturday after a fast-rising river destroyed a major bridge, as deadly floods cause devastation across the country.

India's foreign exchange reserves to plummeted to the lowest in over two years, marking the third straight week of decline as the Reserve Bank of India, true to its word, intervened to prevent the rupee from falling past 80 to the dollar during a week when the dollar surged to over two-decade highs, NDTV reports.

India’s Adani Group yesterday contested claims by New Delhi Television NDTV.NS that regulatory curbs restricted its founders from selling their stake, prolonging the battle for control of a news network seen as bastion of independent media.

China’s huge military drills around Taiwan have only made allies more determined to visit the island democracy and show solidarity, Taipei’s foreign minister Joseph Wu said yesterday.

The UN yesterday said that children in Sri Lanka are “going to bed hungry” because of the island nation’s economic crisis, warning other South Asian countries could be approaching similar situations.

Suspended Thai leader Prayuth Chan-ocha said on social media he will continue in his role as defence minister, in his first direct address to the public since a court ordered him to cease his duties as prime minister while it reviews his term limit.

A veteran leader of India’s main opposition Congress party quit yesterday, issuing a scathing resignation letter in which he blamed the scion of the influential Gandhi family for the decline of the party that dominated Indian politics for decades.

Heavy rain pounded much of Pakistan yesterday after the government declared an emergency to deal with monsoon flooding it said had affected more than 30 million people.

A Philippine ferry carrying 82 passengers and crew caught fire as it was approaching a port south of Manila on Friday and at least 73 of those aboard have been rescued, the coast guard said.

For years Indian television company NDTV (NDTV.NS) pursued an independent line critical of the government even as others embraced strident nationalism. Now a proposed takeover by tycoon Gautam Adani's conglomerate has raised fears that one of the country's last bastions of free media is under threat.

For nearly 70 years an imagined line running down the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China has helped keep the peace but the so-called median line is looking increasingly meaningless as China's modernised navy asserts its strength.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan yesterday accused the government of trying to score a “technical knockout” against him, after being granted bail on charges brought under the country’s anti-terrorism act.