North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw firing drills involving "newly-equipped super-large" multiple rocket launchers, state media said Tuesday, a day after Seoul said Pyongyang had fired several short-range ballistic missiles
Afghanistan’s Taliban said yesterday that Pakistan carried out two air strikes on its territory, killing five women and three children, and it fired heavy weapons at Pakistani forces along the border in retaliation.
India’s Election Commission yesterday issued orders for the removal of six Home Secretaries - including the top bureaucrats from Gujarat, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh.
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin today appreciated Indian navy's important role in conducting anti-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean region
Eight people, all women and children, were killed on Monday in "reckless" air strikes by the Pakistan military in the border regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban government's spokesman said..Border tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have risen since the Taliban government seized powe
Key Russian ally China on Monday congratulated President Vladimir Putin on his election victory
Twenty-one people were killed and 38 injured yesterday in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province when a bus collided with an oil tanker and a motorbike, provincial officials said.
In the village of Wale, Thailand and Myanmar are connected by a small wooden bridge. The narrow river that flows beneath it constitutes the border.
Twenty-one people were killed and 11 injured in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Sunday when a bus collided with a tanker and a motorbike, a provincial official said
A Taiwanese university student was hoping to pocket over NT$41 million (S$1.7 million) in insurance payouts by claiming that he lost his feet to frostbite
India’s Supreme Court yesterday said it will hear a batch of petitions seeking a stay on the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024.
While India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) redeemed bonds worth Rs 6,061 crore from contentious election bonds, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress was second the encashing bonds worth Rs 1,610 crore followed by main opposition Congress in the third place with Rs 1,422 crore
Ahead of parliamentary elections due in April-May, India’s Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea alleging irregularities in functioning of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) saying "every method has its plus and minus points"
India's election panel today said it would announce dates for general elections at 3 pm local time (0930 GMT) on March 16.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday suffered an injury on her forehead when she slipped at her residence in South Kolkata’s Kalighat locality, her party Trinamool Congress said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today suffered major injuries after she met with an accident, her party Trinamool Congress (TMC) said.
A Chinese military delegation recently visited the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Nepal to discuss further cooperation in defence issues, Beijing said yesterday.
At least 60 people have been killed by heavy rain and snow in Afghanistan over the past three weeks, the government’s disaster ministry said Wednesday.
Japan's Space One's small, solid-fuelled Kairos rocket exploded shortly after its inaugural launch on Wednesday as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite in orbit
India has begun withdrawing military personnel operating surveillance aircraft in the Maldives after the new pro-China president ordered them to leave, defence authorities said Tuesday.
Locals in a city in western Japan have been told not to approach or touch a missing cat that fell into a vat of dangerous chemicals and then scampered off into the night.