'Saved by a mango tree': How a Nepali labourer survived deadly flash flood
Reuters, Kathmandu
27 August 2026 Natural Disaster
Nepal says 468 tourists, mainly foreigners, out of contact after floods
AFP, Kathmandu, Nepal
27 August 2026 Natural Disaster
Update / Search for 1,000 missing after Nepal-Tibet floods kill 165
AFP, Nuwakot, Nepal
27 August 2026 South Asia
98 dead, hundreds missing as deadly flood hits Nepal-Tibet border
Reuters, Kathmandu
26 August 2026 South Asia
Nepal PM allowed to wear sunglasses in parliament
AFP, Kathmandu
26 August 2026 South Asia
Ex-Pak PM taken back to jail after hospital checks
Reuters, Lahore
22 August 2026 South Asia

‘Will remove article 370 from J&K if voted to power’

BJP president Amit Shah yesterday said that Article 370 will be withdrawn from Jammu and Kashmir, if the party is voted to power again.
27 April 2019

Gunmen kill polio vaccinator in Pak

Gunmen shot and killed a female polio vaccinator yesterday, the fourth this week in the latest surge of violence against efforts to rid the
25 April 2019

‘Rich are playing with fire’

India’s Supreme Court yesterday said it was anguished over the “systematic attack” on the judiciary and said time has come to tell the rich and powerful of this country that they are “playing with fire” and this must stop.
25 April 2019

SRI LANKA TERROR ATTACK

India warned Sri Lanka of possible suicide bombings weeks before the Easter attacks, based on “threatening” Islamic State-influenced
25 April 2019

BJP contesting more seats than Congress

In a first, the Bharatiya Janata Party is contesting more seats than its chief rival the Congress in the ongoing Indian parliamentary election.
25 April 2019

Lanka paying deadly price

Crucial intelligence that could have prevented Sri Lanka’s Easter attacks went ignored in part because of feuding between the country’s leaders, experts say.
25 April 2019

Top Sri Lanka defence official resigns over blasts

Sri Lanka's top defence official resigns over security failures that led to the deadly Easter bombings, as Catholic churches suspended all services fearing further attacks.
25 April 2019

Sri Lanka halts low season visa-free plan after bombings

Sri Lanka's government says it was suspending plans to grant citizens of 39 countries visa-free entry during the country's tourism low season after deadly Easter bombings that killed hundreds.
25 April 2019

Bangladesh not to take blame for any casualty in Rohingya camps: FM

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says those who are opposing the relocation of Rohingyas to Bhasan Char Island should take the responsibility if there is any casualty in Cox's Bazar camps during monsoon.
25 April 2019

Earthquake rattles northeast India, Tibet

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh early yesterday and was felt in neighbouring Tibet. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
24 April 2019

US, govt forces killed more than insurgents

Afghan civilians are for the first time being killed in greater numbers by US and pro-government forces than by the Taliban and other insurgent groups, a UN report released yesterday revealed.
24 April 2019

‘Not your enemies’

Mohamed Hasan has barely left his home in Colombo since a string of deadly blasts hit Sri Lanka on Sunday, afraid he could be attacked because he is Muslim.
24 April 2019

The mastermind behind blasts

For years, Sri Lanka’s Muslim community warned authorities about a firebrand cleric. Now it seems Zahran Hashim may have played a key role in one of the worst attacks in the country’s history.
24 April 2019

Terror attack plots ongoing in Lanka

The United States had no prior knowledge of the Easter Sunday suicide bombing attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, but now believes there is ongoing terrorism plotting in the country, Washington’s ambassador to Colombo said yesterday.
24 April 2019

More than 50 feared killed in Myanmar

More than 50 people were feared dead after a landslide in northern Myanmar engulfed jade miners while they were sleeping, local police said yesterday, the latest deadly accident in a notoriously dangerous industry.
23 April 2019

SRI LANKA TERROR ATTACK

Muslim brothers carried out two of the hotel suicide blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, part of a wave of bombings that killed more than 320 people, police sources told AFP yesterday.
23 April 2019

Myanmar SC rejects appeal of Reuters reporters

Myanmar’s Supreme Court yesterday rejected the latest appeal by two Pulitzer-prize winning Reuters journalists who were jailed for seven years on charges linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, as hopes now turn to a presidential pardon.
23 April 2019

IS claims deadly attack on Afghan ministry

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack at the communications ministry in the Afghan capital Kabul that killed seven people,
22 April 2019

Lanka Muslim leaders call for ‘punishment’

Top Muslim leaders in Sri Lanka yesterday demanded “maximum punishment” for the perpetrators of suicide bomb attacks on Christian
22 April 2019

‘Horrific’, ‘cruel’, ‘sad’

Pope Francis expressed his sadness over the attacks during his traditional Easter address at the Vatican. “I want to express my affectionate closeness with the Christian community, attacked while it was at prayer, and to all the victims of such cruel violence,” he said.
22 April 2019