A team of drone operators joined climbers and guides at Everest Base Camp this climbing season, armed with heavy-duty drones to help clear rubbish from the world’s highest peak.

China said Tuesday it had rejected a protest lodged by Japan over the development of gas fields in disputed waters of the East China Sea.

Says Indian Ambassador to Russia Vinay Kumar in interview with Russian state news agency TASS

Arifuzzaman had been in hiding since the July uprising

India's high commission in Islamabad shared the warning yesterday

President Donald Trump on Friday tapped close political aide Sergio Gor as US ambassador to India, sending one of his feared enforcers at a delicate time in ties with New Delhi.

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has voiced concern over “linguistic intolerance” in various states of India, especially against Bangla speakers who are suspected of being undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will host Russia’s Vladimir Putin, UN chief Antonio Guterres and more than 20 heads of government later this month, Beijing said yesterdat, for a political and security meet aimed at cementing China’s regional influence.

China, the world’s dominant rare earth supplier, issued on Friday measures to regulate the mining, smelting and separation of thecritical minerals key to energy transition, further tightening its grip over supply.

Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who led the country during a devastating 2019-2024 economic crisis, was arrested and appeared in court yesterday over allegations he misused state funds while in office, police said.

Seven people were killed and 9 others were missing after a rope broke at a bridge under construction in northwest China on Friday, state media reported.

India and France agreed to strengthen their strategic partnership and economic exchanges in a phone call between the two countries’ leaders yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

The military-led government announced this week that polls would be held in phases, starting on December 28, pushing the vote as a salve for a war that has consumed the country since the generals seized power in a 2021 coup

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah yesterday introduced the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha, proposing automatic removal of a prime minister, chief minister, or any other minister if they remain in jail for 30 consecutive days on serious criminal charges.

Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman Randhir Jaiswal says

Week-long downpours leave 400+ dead, villages swept away

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party was allegedly attacked at a programme at her official residence in Civil Lines today, her party said

Myanmar and Thailand’s busiest trade crossing was closed for a second day on Tuesday after the military junta pledged to throttle black markets funding armed opposition groups ahead of a disputed December election.

Myanmar's civil war has killed thousands, left more than half the nation in poverty, and more than 3.5 million people living displaced

At least 10 people died in a flash flood in northern China, state media reported yesterday, with two others still missing, as the East Asian monsoon continues to unleash atmospheric chaos across the world’s second-largest economy.