-- 2018-10-12 20:36:41
Pakistan President Arif Alvi has sacked a High Court judge who earlier accused the country's spy agency of interfering in judicial proceedings to influence the July election. The law ministry of the...
-- 2018-10-12 19:46:56
Can a world-famous eau de toilette for men, known for its smoky and spicy fragrance, help trap a "man-eating" tiger prowling in the jungles of India's western state of Maharashtra? Wildlife officials...
-- 2018-10-12 18:50:09
Papua New Guinea's government is under scrutiny for importing 40 luxury Maserati cars from Italy for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit. The Quattroporte sedans, which cost...
-- 2018-10-12 17:18:17
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said it is only a matter of time before the US and North Korea declare an end to their state of war on the Korean peninsula. The war ended in 1953 with an armistice...
-- 2018-10-12 15:08:36
Media companies are pulling out of a Saudi investment conference because of growing outrage over the disappearance of a prominent Saudi journalist in Turkey. Economist Editor-In-Chief Zanny Minton Be...
-- 2018-10-12 13:49:35
At least nine people have been killed in India’s Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states as cyclone Titli made landfall with the wind speed of up to 150 kmph, local agencies reported. The cyclone ki...
-- 2018-10-11 20:29:41
Malaysia's new government said it will abolish the death penalty for all crimes and halt all pending executions, a rare move against capital punishment in Asia that human rights groups hailed Thursday...
-- 2018-10-11 18:25:12
The 3rd South Asia Maritime and Logistics Forum-2019 will be held in Dubai. Shipping Secretary Md Abdus Samad revealed the information at the closing ceremony of second South Asia Maritime and Logist...
-- 2018-10-11 14:59:07
South Korea never considered lifting sanctions against North Korea imposed over the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship, the country’s Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon said on Thursday....
-- 2018-10-11 10:44:42
Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Center (DMC) on Thursday said 12 people had been killed and over 69,000 affected from the heavy winds and rains which lashed out across the island since last week...
-- 2018-10-11 10:18:55
The severe cyclonic storm ‘Titli’ hit India’s Odisha-Andhra coast at Gopalpur with a hurricane wind speed of 126 kph at around 6:15 am (local time) on Thursday. The Indian Meteorolo...
-- 2018-10-11 09:53:39
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, killing three people in Java and damaging some buildings while causing...
-- 2018-10-10 20:40:50
Three senior journalists of Myanmar’s largest private newspaper were remanded in custody after handing themselves in to police on Wednesday over the allegations of causing 'fear or alarm'. One...
-- 2018-10-10 19:49:31
The United Nations in a new report bemoaned the "extreme" number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan's protracted war, saying 2,798 Afghan civilians died in the first nine months of this year, while...
-- 2018-10-10 15:24:57
Pressure is building on major Indian employers to take allegations of sexual harassment more seriously after a surge in the number of complaints against prominent public figures in the past week. At...
-- 2018-10-10 13:18:10
An apartment building collapsed in Bahrain’s capital late on Tuesday leaving at least four people dead and 20 injured, the interior ministry said. Three bodies were found at the site in Manama&...
-- 2018-10-10 11:25:23
The capital of China’s Xinjiang region, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority, has launched a campaign against halal products to stop Islam penetrating secular life and fuelling “extre...
-- 2018-10-10 11:23:23
At least seven people were killed and about 25 others injured after five coaches of a Delhi-bound train derailed in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh early on Wednesday, officials said. The a...
-- 2018-10-09 20:32:55
The Australian government has unveiled a proposal to force new migrants to live outside Sydney and Melbourne. The policy would aim to ease congestion in Australia's two biggest cities while boosting...
-- 2018-10-09 19:22:20
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told his Cabinet that medical tests show he doesn't have cancer, though he won't release a detailed public report on his health, officials said Tuesday. Interior...
-- 2018-10-09 19:04:52
Health workers in Indonesia are struggling to care for tens of thousands of people displaced by an earthquake and tsunami, with a lack of shelter and clean water among major problems as the focus turn...
-- 2018-10-09 18:25:22
A rare white tiger has mauled a zookeeper to death in its enclosure at a zoo in Japan, officials say. Akira Furusho, 40, was found bleeding from the neck in the tiger's cage at the zoo in the souther...
-- 2018-10-08 16:01:38
At least four people were killed and over 10,000 affected as strong winds and heavy rains lashed out across Sri Lanka over the weekend, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said in its latest update o...
-- 2018-10-08 14:07:46
The Taliban on Monday directed Afghans to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections and demanded a complete withdrawal of foreign forces as the only solution to end the 17-year-old war as they ramped u...
-- 2018-10-08 10:49:07
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was ready to allow international inspectors into the North’s nuclear and missile testing sites, one of the main s...
-- 2018-10-08 10:26:59
China’s antigraft watchdog said late on Sunday that the Chinese authorities were investigating Meng Hongwei, the head of the global law enforcement organisation Interpol who had been reported mi...
-- 2018-10-07 14:52:14
A Palestinian gunman shot dead two Israelis and wounded a third on Sunday in an industrial park next to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said. The assailant, the mi...
-- 2018-10-07 13:13:17
At least 10 policemen were killed in clashes with Taliban fighters in the central Afghan province of Wardak, officials said on Sunday, amid fighting to wrest control of arterial highways a day after T...
-- 2018-10-06 10:17:12
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dismissed remarks by Donald Trump in which the US president said he had warned the king he would not last in power “for two weeks” wit...
-- 2018-10-05 18:52:12
An airstrike by security forces killed four people and wounded eight others who were part of a wedding procession in the southeast province of Kandahar, officials said on Friday. Abdul Raziq, the Kan...
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