Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to hold a leadership vote on September 14 to replace Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is stepping down due to ill health, local media reported yesterday.

India reported 78,512 novel coronavirus infections yesterday, more than any other country but fewer than the previous day when it posted the world’s biggest, single-day tally, as authorities looked to open more sectors of the economy.

The blue mask is a common sight these days but recently it has been spotted on a Cargolux Airlines Boeing 747-8 at Changi Airport in Singapore.

Twenty-nine people were killed and seven seriously injured when a restaurant collapsed in northern China’s Shanxi province, the country’s emergencies ministry media has said.

The death toll from the Beirut port blast has risen to 190 with more than 6,500 injured and three people missing, Lebanon’s caretaker government says in a report.

The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued a decree today formally ending the country’s boycott of Israel amid a US-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two countries.

A Bangladeshi woman and her daughter were found dead in an apartment at Jleeb-AL-Shuyoukh in Kuwait on Friday.

Pakistan’s flooded financial capital of Karachi was plunged into chaos yesterday with power cuts, streets under water and cellphone outages caused by heavy rain as authorities said at least 23 people had been killed in downpours the previous day.

Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was set to resign, national broadcaster NHK said today, saying he wanted to avert problems for the government from a worsening health condition.

China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) says it would lend $100 million to Bangladesh to help the country deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to resign for health reasons. He is to announce his resignation at a press conference.

Ten members of India’s dwindling Great Andamanese tribe have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said yesterday, fuelling concerns about the safety of the group and other indigenous people in the remote archipelago.

India has termed the border situation with China in Ladakh the “most serious” since the 1962 Sino-India conflict and said the number of forces currently deployed by both sides at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is “unprecedented”.

India recorded more than 60,000 cases of Covid-19 for the eighth day in a row yesterday, as total cases crossed 3.2 million, data from the federal health ministry showed.

An investigation committee formed by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) today blamed immigration authority of Abu Dhabi, UAE for sending back 112 Bangladeshi migrant workers and denying them entry into the country.

Kazakhstan has signed a deal to get supplies of Russia’s first potential Covid-19 vaccine once clinical trials are complete, the Central Asian nation’s government says.

Rescue workers in western India yesterday pulled a toddler alive from the rubble of an apartment building some 20 hours after it collapsed killing at least five people.

The Indian National Congress is likely to appoint a panel of senior leaders to assist interim chief Sonia Gandhi till she is at the helm of affairs, for though the party maintains all is well but the discontent, evinced by a letter seeking a leadership change, may not have been fully doused.

The West Bengal government, along with the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata, has begun the process of repatriating 19 Tabligh Jamaat members of the neighbouring country, who have been stuck in the state since the Covid-19 outbreak in March.

A rubbish truck driver and four Bangladeshi workers were detained on Monday (August 24) for “flying the Malaysian flag upside down” in front of their lorry.