Sri Lanka is considering introducing drug test kits through pharmacies to allow parents to privately check whether their children are using narcotics, the President's Media Division (PMD) said. The proposal was discussed when the national council of the "A Nation United" anti-drug campaign, launch
The body of Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was lying in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects after his 37-year rule. Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions for Khamenei -- killed i
Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India, a BBC Eye investigation has found.The ads, seen by the BBC World Service, use terms including "rape video" and "child video" and link users to channels on the messaging app Telegram, where they can buy the mater
Forty people were killed and eight others injured after a bus fell into a deep roadside ditch in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan on Friday, a rescue agency and a government official said. The bus was headed to the national capital, Islamabad, from the provincia
A powerful general who leads Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard emerged from hiding as Tehran prepared Friday for the dayslong funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photos published online by Iranian state media showed Gen. Ahmad Vahidi attending a meeting about the fune
At least seven people have been killed and 22 others injured after a sleeper bus crashed into a trailer and caught on fire on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in India’s Rajasthan, reports bdnews24.com citing NDTV. The incident took place around 2:30am local time on Wednesday when the bus w
A helicopter belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco crashed on Sunday in Ras Tanura on Saudi Arabia's eastern coast on the Gulf, west of the Strait of Hormuz, killing 14 nationals, the state news agency reported, adding that the cause was unknown. Aramco had resumed crude oil loadings on Friday at it
Pakistan’s military says that it has killed eight “terrorists” in intelligence operations in Balochistan’s Kharan and Mastung districts, reports Pakistani daily Dawn. The country’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said it had conducted the “intelligence-dr
Myanmar's military killed more than 700 civilians in six months, including hundreds of women and children, according to a UN report cited by the BBC. The report from the UN Human Rights Office, covering August to January -- the six months from when the military announced elections -- verified a mi
Tata Electronics said on Monday it had detected a recent "cybersecurity incident", after researchers said World Leaks posted purported component design and specification papers of Apple and Tesla, both customers of the Indian group. The ransomware group has posted more than 200,000 files on the da
Politics in West Bengal has taken a dramatic turn as the faction led by Uluberia Purba MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, calling itself the "real Trinamool", announced the suspension of party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and removed Mamata Banerjee from the post of party chairperson. The dev
At least eight people were killed in a fire at a coaching centre in Lucknow city in northern India on Monday, a local police officer said. Local media said the death toll was higher and put it at 14, adding that they were mostly students.
China has begun work on the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, situated on the lower reaches of Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo River, about 50km from the Indian border, reports Indian broadcaster NDTV. In response, India is also pushing forward with an initiative of its own – a 11,000MW
