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. 

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced the key members of his cabinet, tasking them with leading the country out of a crippling economic crisis fuelled by debt, spiralling inflation and a feeble rupee. 

India today said its Muslims need not worry as Citizenship Amendment Act has not made any provision to impact their citizenship and has nothing to do with the present 18 crore Indian Muslims who have equal rights like their Hindu counterparts. 

India today said its Muslims need not worry as the Citizenship Amendment Act has not made any provision to impact their citizenship and has nothing to do with the present 18 crore Indian Muslims who have equal rights as their Hindu counterparts

Opposition parties in India have flayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for enforcing the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 paving the way for citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan while BJP has welcomed it

India’s Supreme Court yesterday rejected a plea by government-run State Bank of India SBI.NS for more time to make public names of individuals and companies who donated billions of rupees to political parties through an opaque funding system.

India has successfully test-fired a domestically developed ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads for the first time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday.

After India yesterday announced the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, reactions started to pour in from the opposition leaders, who accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre of resorting to ‘deviation’ and ‘publicity’ ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, reports Times of India.

India’s interior ministry yesterday said it was enacting a citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims, just weeks before the world’s most populous country heads into a general election. 

A second Chinese research vessel in two months has been spotted near India’s coast, adding to New Delhi’s anxiety over possible military intelligence-gathering in its backyard.

The navies of China, Russia and Iran are staging joint drills in the Gulf of Oman this week, Beijing said yesterday.

Taiwan’s top security official told parliament yesterday that China runs “joint combat readiness patrols” near the democratic island every 7-10 days on average, saying Chinese forces were trying to “normalise” drills near Taiwan.

India today conducted its first successful flight test of indigenously developed Agni-5 missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology which allows a single missile to be fitted with multiple warheads aimed at different locations

India's Supreme Court today asked State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest commercial bank, to furnish by tomorrow the details of electoral bonds that allowed anonymous funding of political parties

The second-highest official in India’s election commission resigned abruptly on Saturday, days ahead of the expected announcement of the date of the country’s general election.

India and the four-member European trade bloc EFTA, including Norway and Switzerland, signed a $100-billion free trade agreement today to promote investment and exports, officials said