A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was effusive about the warm welcome he got in India, prompting him to describe his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi as a “khaas dost” and gushed that he felt like Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.

Two foreigners, suspected to be Ukrainian nationals, have been detained by police at Badarpur Railway Station in northeastern Indian state Assam as they were disembarked from a train for travelling without valid documents, a police officer said today (April 22, 2022)

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday proposed a “global security initiative” that upholds the principle of “indivisible security”, a concept also endorsed by Russia, although he gave no details of how it would be implemented.

An explosion claimed by Islamic State militant group at a Shia mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif yesterday killed at least 12 people and wounded 58, a health official said.

The editor of a shuttered Singaporean news website was jailed three weeks for defamation over a letter the portal published alleging corruption among government ministers.

A Taiwanese television station yesterday apologised for “causing public panic” after erroneously running a series of alerts saying China had launched attacks on the island.

In view of a spurt in coronavirus cases in the city, the New Delhi government yesterday made wearing of masks mandatory in public places and imposed a fine

China’s lawmakers yesterday announced that it ratified two international conventions against forced labour, months after United Nations experts voiced

Taiwan is a part of China and no one can change that, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said on Wednesday during a rare phone call with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, according to a statement from Beijing.

A mutual charm offensive was on display between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus at an international event in Gandhinagar, Gujarat state.

Police kept up a curfew in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, a day after the killing of an anti-government demonstrator in escalating protests across the island triggered international condemnation.

Sixty-three Bangalee Hindu families who had migrated to India in the 1970s from the then East Pakistan, were on Tuesday (April 19, 2022) handed papers for houses and agricultural land in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh state.

The number of India’s daily Covid-19 cases crossed the 2,000-mark once again with 2,067 new infections reported in 24 hours, according to the data by Indian health ministry.

Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb announced on Tuesday that the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) was being disbanded in "whatever shape or form it was working".

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sprang no big surprises in naming his new cabinet yesterday, doling out key portfolios to officials from the two parties that combined to oust Imran Khan after weeks of political crisis.

Japanese researchers have developed computerised chopsticks that enhance salty tastes, potentially helping those who need to reduce sodium in their diets.

The International Monetary Fund will consider providing quick financial assistance to debt-burdened Sri Lanka following representations by India, Sri Lanka’s finance ministry said yesterday.

At least six people were killed and 24 wounded yesterday by two bomb blasts that struck a boys’ school in a Shia Hazara neighbourhood of the Afghan capital, police and hospital staff said.

A Mumbai court granted bail to three students in the case relating to Bulli Bai app, which targeted Muslim women by arranging for their "auction", holding that their "immature age and understanding" was misused by other accused with "deeper understanding".