COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police arrested two ruling party lawmakers for allegedly instigating mob violence that plunged the country into days…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s beleaguered president side-stepped a censure motion on Tuesday after his fractured coalition rallied to delay a resolution…

JODHPUR: Afroz misses school every day to spend hours waiting with a handcart full of containers for a special train…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s new prime minister won crucial support from two main opposition parties Monday, easing the pressure on the…

JACOBABAD: South Asia was in the grip of an extreme heatwave on Friday, with parts of Pakistan reaching a temperature…

NEW DELHI: At least 27 people died and dozens more were injured in a massive fire in a building in…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s embattled president swore in a new prime minister Thursday to replace his brother, who was banned from…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s economy will “collapse” unless a new government is urgently appointed, the central bank chief warned Wednesday, as…

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities issued shoot-on-sight orders on Tuesday to quell further unrest a day after the island was rocked…

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa quit on Monday, as an outbreak of political violence killed five people including…

COLOMBO: US and European diplomats Saturday urged Sri Lanka’s beleaguered president to repeal a state of emergency imposed after a…

KARACHI: Pakistan’s breakthrough rapper Eva B has racked up millions of views online, but walking through the labyrinthine streets of…

MEDAMULANA: “Gota Go Home” — graffiti calling for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to quit has appeared on the roads of Hambantota,…

ISLAMABAD: The son of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took charge of Punjab province Saturday, the country’s most politically important…

NEW DELHI, India: Millions sweltered in an early summer heatwave across India and Pakistan on Thursday, leading to power and…

KARACHI: A Pakistan separatist group warned Wednesday of more deadly attacks on Chinese targets, a day after a woman suicide…

COLOMBO: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka announced Tuesday it would sell long-term visas to attract desperately needed foreign currency after the island…

SRINAGAR, India: India’s prime minister promised peace and development for Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, during his first public event…

AHMEDABAD, India:  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in India Thursday touting job-creating investment but facing long odds to get…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka called out the military on Thursday to bolster security ahead of a funeral for the first person…

RAMBUKKANA, Sri Lanka: Police enforced a curfew on Wednesday in a Sri Lankan town where an anti-government demonstrator was killed,…

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sprang no big surprises in naming his new cabinet Tuesday, doling out key…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s embattled leader dropped two of his brothers and a nephew from his cabinet Monday, following public anger…

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court sentenced four extremists to hang Wednesday for their fatal machete attack on a celebrated writer, in…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a “candid exchange of views” on the Ukraine crisis…

NEW DELHI: India hopes that Pakistan’s new prime minister will herald a diplomatic thaw between the two nuclear-armed foes after…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan lawmakers on Monday elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister following the weekend ouster of Imran…

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Shehbaz Sharif, who became Pakistan’s new prime minister Monday after leading the opposition alliance that ousted Imran Khan,…

ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan was dismissed Sunday as Pakistan’s prime minister after losing a no-confidence vote, paving the way for an…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan lawmakers clashed angrily in the national assembly on Saturday with the opposition accusing ruling party members of wasting…

COLOMBO: Tens of thousands marched on beleaguered Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office on Saturday, in the biggest protest to…

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s beleaguered president has appointed an expert panel to organise a debt restructure to claw the country out…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s crippling economic crisis risks starvation across the island nation of 22 million while acute shortages and blackouts…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s supreme court adjourned Tuesday without ruling on the legality of political manoeuvres that led Prime Minister Imran Khan…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s embattled president offered to share power with the opposition on Monday as protests demanding his resignation grew…

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