Japan and India yesterday began their first joint fighter jet exercise near Tokyo as the countries upgrade defence and security ties with an eye on China’s growing military might.

In 2010, Anju Khatiwada joined Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, following in the footsteps of her husband, a pilot who had died in a crash four years earlier when a small passenger plane he was flying for the domestic carrier went down minutes before landing.

Searchers yesterday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed killing at least 68 people in Nepal’s worst plane accident in 30 years, officials said.

Japan and India began their first joint fighter jet exercise on Monday near Tokyo as the countries upgrade defence and security ties with an eye on China's growing military might..The 11-day joint exercise will involve eight Japanese fighter jets, with India sending four fighters, two tran

Rescuers resumed searching today in Nepal for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation's deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said.

Kalpana Sunar had come to Pokhara from Dulegaunda in Tanahun to celebrate Maghe Sankranti three days ago. She was washing clothes in the front yard of her house when she saw an aeroplane falling from the sky and coming in her direction.

A chemical plant explosion in China has killed two people and injured 34, state media reported Monday..The blast happened on Sunday afternoon at a factory in northeastern Liaoning province's Panshan County, according to state broadcaster CCTV..Twelve people are missing after the expl

Gunmen shot dead an Afghan former lawmaker and one of her bodyguards in the capital Kabul in a night-time attack at her home, police said yesterday.

The provincial assembly in Pakistan’s most populous province, Punjab, was dissolved late Saturday, in a move orchestrated by former prime minister Imran Khan as part of a bid to force early general elections.

At least 68 people were confirmed dead yesterday after a plane with 72 on board crashed in Nepal, police said, in the Himalayan country’s worst aviation disaster in three decades.

Rescuers have so far recovered 68 bodies from a Yeti Airlines crash site in Pokhara of Kaski district in western Nepal.

Nepal suffered its worst air crash in three decades today when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara killing 68 people.

In Nepal’s worst air crash in nearly 30 years, at least 68 people were killed after a Nepalese passenger plane with 72 people onboard crashed into a river gorge today while landing at the Pokhara airport.

An aircraft with 72 people on board crashed in Nepal on Sunday, officials said, the latest aviation disaster to hit the Himalayan nation.

At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the country's Civil Aviation Authority said, in the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation.

China said on Saturday nearly 60,000 people with Covid-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge increase from previously reported figures that follows global criticism of the country's coronavirus data.

Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has opined  that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee clearly has the ability to become India’s prime minister.

A beloved Hong Kong radio host dubbed the “world’s most durable DJ” by Guinness World Records has died aged 98 after more than seven decades on the air.

A mother and her toddler were among five people killed in a military air strike in Myanmar’s east, Karen rebels and an aid group said yesterday.

China’s health authorities yesterday reported almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths in just over a month, the first major death toll released by the government since it loosened its virus restrictions in early December.