A federal Indian minister’s house was set on fire by a mob in the remote northeastern state of Manipur, which has been hit by clashes between members of rival ethnic groups for over a month, officials said yesterday.

A US Navy nuclear-powered submarine arrived in the South Korean port city of Busan yesterday, demonstrating Washington’s pledge to counter Pyongyang’s growing threats, Seoul’s military said.

Myanmar state media condemned the United Nations as “rotten” yesterday, days after the UN special envoy for the country stepped down and the world body slammed curbs on aid for cyclone survivors.

Xi Jinping called Bill Gates “an old friend” and said he hoped they could carry out activities together beneficial to both China and the United States, in the Chinese president’s first meeting with a foreign entrepreneur in years. 

Indian police said security forces killed five foreign militants early on Friday in a gunfight in Kashmir along the Line of Control (LOC), the defacto border with Pakistan in the Himalayan region.

A federal Indian minister's house was set on fire by a mob in the remote northeastern state of Manipur, which has been hit by clashes between members of rival ethnic groups for over a month, officials said today.

Temperatures in Beijing hit a record for mid-June of 39.4 degrees Celsius (103 Fahrenheit) today, China's meteorological authority said, warning the public to stay indoors.."At around 2:30 pm on June 16, the temperature at Beijing's Nanjiao observatory hit 39.4 degrees Celsius, breaking th

Cyclone Biparjoy slammed into the Indian coast with powerful winds, sowing fear and prompting evacuations, but began weakening in the early hours of today as it moved north

India’s defence ministry has approved the procurement of US-made armed MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones, sources told Reuters yesterday.

More than 100,000 people had been evacuated in India and Pakistan ahead of the expected landfall Thursday of a fierce cyclone which could devastate homes and tear down power lines

India's third mission to the moon is scheduled to be launched in July, most likely in the second half of the month.

At least nine people have been killed in the latest clashes between members of rival ethnic groups in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, police said yesterday, as security forces pressed on with a hunt for illegal weapons.

Roads will be inundated along parts of India’s western coast and thatched houses were likely to be destroyed, the country’s weather department said yesterday, a day before a fierce cyclone was expected to make landfall in Gujarat and southern parts of Pakistan.

Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington, the Biden administration is pushing New Delhi to cut through its own red tape and advance a deal for dozens of US-made armed drones, two people familiar with the matter said.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) today said they are working separately and jointly to "reduce" the instances of killing of Bangladeshi nationals along the border

Two soldiers were killed and a third wounded when a fellow recruit opened fire at a training range in central Japan on Wednesday, the military said

India threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the handling of farmer protests, co-founder Jack Dorsey said, an accusation Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government called an “outright lie”.

The United Nations slammed today the Myanmar junta's "unfathomable" decision to suspend travel authorisations for aid workers trying to reach more than a million people in cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state..Cyclone Mocha brought lashing rain and winds of 195 kilometres (120 miles) per hour to

More than 6,000 civilians were killed in Myanmar in the first 20 months after the February 2021 military coup, a report published today by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo said.."Our data shows that the human toll of the conflict is higher than previously reported, and while the junta

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent fresh seasonal mangoes as gifts to Droupadi Murmu and Narendra Modi, the president and prime minister of India respectively