Colombo, June 16 - Sri Lanka Navy said on Sunday that it seized 702 kg of Tendu leaves smuggled into the country and arrested two suspects during a search operation.

Islamabad, June 16 - The Taliban government on Sunday officially announced its intention to send a delegation to the upcoming Doha meeting on the situation in Afghanistan.

Beijing, June 16 - Heavy rainfall has caused flooding in 22 rivers in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the regional hydrology centre reported on Sunday.

Seoul, June 16 - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol returned home on Sunday from a week-long trip to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan that focused on strengthening economic ties with the resource-rich nations.

Islamabad, June 14 - The Public Action Committee (PAC), the organisation that forced the Pakistan government and the legislative government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) -- also known as 'Pakistan-occupied Kashmir' (PoK) -- to its knees, forcing it to act on its

Kabul, June 14 - Afghan authorities plan to build a new dam in its national capital of Kabul, the media reported.

Kabul, June 14 - The Afghan caretaker government's Supreme Leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, on Friday said that Afghanistan seeks to establish political and economic relations with all countries across the world.

Kabul, June 14 - The Afghanistan office of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday warned of a hunger crisis ahead of the upcoming Eid al-Adha in Afghanistan.

Kathmandu, June 14 - Four members of a family were killed in a landslide in Taplejung district in northeastern Nepal, a local official said on Friday.

Kabul, June 13 - Marking 1,000 days since girls in Afghanistan were banned from secondary school, a top official at the United Nations children's agency, Unicef, on Thursday used this milestone to urge the Taliban to allow girls to go back to school.

Colombo, June 13 - Sri Lanka Cabinet approved a proposal by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to implement the national tariff policy in three phases from January 2025, the government's Information department said.

Kabul, June 13 - Nineteen per cent of children are engaged in child labour in Afghanistan, the Afghanistan office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

Colombo, June 13 - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved Sri Lanka's second review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) paving the way for the crisis-hit Indian Ocean Island to receive the third tranche of around $330 million.

Colombo, June 12 - Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed a Committee of Inquiry (CoI) to investigate the actions taken by the Lankan intelligence services on the prior information received from their Indian counterparts regarding the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings which killed

Islamabad, June 12 - The Taliban's Supreme Court said on Wednesday that three convicts have been separately punished in two Afghan provinces for allegedly committing sodomy and "moral corruption".

Peshawar, June 12 - A security report prepared by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province paints a suffering tale of public unrest, killings, terrorism, climate crisis, and health severity during the year 2023, calling on the

Kuwait City, June 12 - More than 35 people died when a fire broke out in a building housing workers in Kuwait early on Wednesday, officials said.

Kabul, June 12 - Afghanistan's security forces have discovered weapons and ammunition caches in northern Takhtar and Baghlan provinces, the country's Ministry of National Defense said in a statement on Wednesday.

Beijing, June 11 - The recent incident of the injury to foreign teachers from the United States in China was an isolated case, which will not affect the normal people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian