
A female student who was angry over her mobile phone being confiscated by a teacher is suspected to have started the deadly fire that ripped through a school dormitory in Guyana earlier this week, killing 19 children, police said....

The number of babies born in South Korea fell to a fresh low in March, exacerbating the dire population crisis of Asia's No. 4 economy, new data showed on Wednesday. ...

Bangladesh has the highest death toll from extreme weather, climate and water-related events in Asia, recording 520,758 fatalities from 281 events between 1970 and 2021, according to a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). ...

Two more Australian universities have banned the recruitment of students from some Indian states in response to fresh concerns over a surge in fraudulent visa applications, a media report said. ...

In a move that could hit Indians, the UK government on Tuesday announced that international students will no longer be able to bring family members with them except under specific circumstances....

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will on Thursday make the 'Total e-Governance Kerala' declaration making the state the country's total e-governed state, an official statement said. ...

Female cheetah cub dies at Kuno National Park, fourth death in two months One of the four cheetah cubs born to Namibian feline Siyaya akka Jwala has died at Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP), officials said on Tuesday....

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday allowed NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy to fly abroad from July 25 to August 15, albeit with certain conditions....

An 11-year-old boy was gunned down by his uncle in Bihar's Samastipur district on Tuesday, police said. ...

At least six persons were killed and another 12 were injured when a container truck and an state transport bus with 38 passengers collided on the old Mumbai-Nagpur Highway in Buldhana, police said here on Tuesday. ...