Canada yesterday said it was temporarily suspending in-person operations at consulates in several Indian cities and warned of visa processing delays amid a diplomatic dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia.

A US Pentagon report saying China will probably have more than 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030 was filled with prejudice and distorts facts, and China had no intention of engaging in a nuclear arms race, its foreign ministry said yesterday.

The Taliban administration wants to formally join Chinese President Xi Jinping’s huge ‘Belt and Road’ infrastructure initiative and will send a technical team to China for talks, Afghanistan’s acting commerce minister said yesterday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un yesterday, after slamming US policy towards the nuclear-armed state as “dangerous”.

China is developing its nuclear arsenal faster than US projections had previously anticipated, according to a Pentagon report released yesterday

A Pakistan court granted bail yesterday to former prime minister and graft convict Nawaz Sharif, removing the threat of arrest when he returns to the country from self-imposed exile this weekend.

India plans to send a man to the Moon and set up a space station by 2040, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, as the country ramps up its space programme.

South Korea, the United States, and Japan will conduct a joint aerial drill this weekend involving a US nuclear-weapons-capable B-52 bomber, according to media reports yesterday.

Beijing will inject over $100 billion of new funding into its Belt and Road initiative, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday at a summit marking the vast infrastructure project's tenth anniversary

The people of Bangladesh will decide how to hold the next national election in their country, Arindam Bagchi, spokesman for India's external affairs ministry has said

India’s top court refused yesterday to legalise same-sex marriages but said the country had a duty to acknowledge LGBTQ relationships and to protect them from discrimination.

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The most senior EU leader expected to attend the third Belt and Road (BRI) Summit this week is Hungary’s populist Viktor Orban, who will join guests including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and a minister of the Afghan Taliban.

India aims to install the first part of an early warning system at some high-risk glacial lakes in the Himalayas next year, a senior official said yesterday, as the country responds to deadly floods this month that killed at least 60 people.

Seven journalists' groups in India today wrote a joint letter to President Droupadi Murmu drawing her attention to "the use of draconian laws against journalists"

Myanmar’s junta blocked roads and deployed heavy security in the military-built capital Naypyidaw yesterday to mark the anniversary of a 2015 rebel ceasefire that its critics say is now defunct.

India will soon install radiation detection equipment (RDE) at eight border crossing points along the land borders with Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Nepal to prevent the trafficking of radioactive materials that may be used in making nuclear devices, officials said

A shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked western Afghanistan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, the latest to hit a region where entire villages have been flattened and over 1,000 killed by a series of tremors this month

Gunmen killed six labourers in an overnight raid in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, officials said yesterday, in the region’s latest bout of violence.

Afghanistan's disaster management ministry on Friday revised downward the death toll from multiple earthquakes to around 1,000 from an earlier figure of over 2,400, a spokesman said