China’s foreign minister Qin Gang met with Russia’s deputy foreign minister Andrey Rudenko in Beijing yesterday, China said, in the first public meeting of diplomats from the two countries since mutinous mercenaries threatened to storm the Russian capital.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today received Egypt’s highest state honour, “Order of the Nile”, from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo.

Indian security forces apprehended a dozen members of a separatist group in the north eastern state of Manipur, but let them off after a stand-off with nearly 1,500 protesters, mostly women, at a village in Imphal East, officials said yesterday.

Beijing criticised US authorities yesterday for charging four Chinese companies and eight individuals with trafficking chemicals used in manufacturing fentanyl, calling the arrests “arbitrary detention”.

Two Pakistani civilians were killed yesterday while one other was “critically injured” as the Indian Army opened “indiscriminate fire” at a group of shepherds at the Line of Control, the army’s media relations wing said.

Eight Chinese war planes crossed the Taiwan Strait’s median line and approached close to the island’s contiguous zone that is 24 nautical miles (44 km) off its coast yesterday, the Taiwanese defence ministry said, in a further rise in tensions.

Violence continued for the third consecutive day in Manipur on Friday as gunfights were reported between security forces and unidentified attackers in Manipur’s Imphal East and Kangpokpi districts.

Pakistan yesterday criticised the United States and India after President Joe Biden met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House and both leaders called on Pakistan to ensure its territory was not used as a base for militant attacks.

Two Pakistanis were killed today while one was "critically injured" as the Indian Army opened fire at a group of shepherds at the Line of Control, the Pakistan army's media relations wing said

Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O will invest an additional $15 billion in India, the company's Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his meeting on Friday

Top leaders of India’s 17 opposition parties, setting aside their differences, today decided to put up a joint fight against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the general elections due early next year.

China issued its highest-level heat alert for northern parts of the country yesterday as the capital baked in temperatures hovering around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).

Top leaders of India's 17 opposition parties, setting aside their differences, today decided to put up a joint fight against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the general elections due early next year

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi denied that discrimination against minorities existed under his government during a press conference with US President Joe Biden on Thursday, despite rights groups and State Department reports of abuses

Sign flurry of defence, military deals; Indian PM says peace in Indo-Pacific a priority, denies accusation of religious discrimination

Indian police are investigating a suspected fraudster who spent nearly two years in a five-star hotel without paying after reportedly bribing staff to fix records, local media said yesterday.

A gas explosion at a barbecue eatery on Wednesday night in China’s northwestern Ningxia region killed 31, according to state-run Xinhua news agency, in one of the country’s deadliest restaurant blasts in recent years. 

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed has quit the ruling party, he said late Wednesday, amid a deepening rift within the government ahead of September presidential elections.

Education officials in Muslim-majority Pakistan have withdrawn an order that banned university students from celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi after the original notice sparked outrage on social media.

At least 31 people were killed when an explosion ripped through a restaurant in the northwestern Chinese city of Yinchuan, state media reported Thursday