The US Congress yesterday voted to set up a commission to assess the failures of the 20-year war in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s victory.

Visiting Indian President Ram Nath Kovind today said that seldom has humanity witnessed sacrifices on a scale so epic as during the 1971 Liberation War.

Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for not mentioning the name of Indira Gandhi during the official programme on the occasion of Vijay Diwas to mark India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war that led to the emergence of independent Bangladesh.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has termed 1971 as Indira Gandhi’s “finest year” and lauded India’s armed forces and the people of Bangladesh for the Liberation War victory that has a distinctive place in the history of the subcontinent.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tribute to the Muktijoddha, Birangana and Indian armed forces members who took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

Nearly all Afghans do not have enough food to eat and a failing economy could tip Afghanistan’s increasingly dire situation under Taliban rule into catastrophe in 2022, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.

A fire broke out on Wednesday in Hong Kong's World Trade Centre, trapping about 150 people on its roof, and 13 people were injured before firefighters put out the blaze, police and the fire department said.

Group Captain Varun Singh, who was the sole survivor of the Indian Air Force helicopter crash in which India’s first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat was killed on December 8, succumbed to his injuries in a military hospital today.

The UN has said there are "credible allegations" of more than 100 extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in August, with most blamed on the country's new rulers.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, terming him as the guiding light for the people of his country.

Bangladesh is above only Afghanistan among South Asian countries in Covid-19 vaccination, according to data of Asian Development Bank (ADB) Outlook Supplement as of December 2 this year.

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with monitors briefly warning of the possibility of hazardous tsunami waves before lifting the threat.

South and North Korea, China and the US have agreed “in principle” to declare a formal end to the Korean war, almost 70 years after the conflict ended in a shaky truce, the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has said.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said yesterday he’s sleeping soundly after becoming the first premier in nine years to inhabit the official residence, which is reputedly haunted by ghosts.

Two Jammu and Kashmir armed police personnel have died, and 12 have been injured after two terrorists attacked a police bus near a police camp at Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar yesterday evening, police said.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) yesterday dropped a passage from its Class ten board exams question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it as “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today dropped a passage from its class 10 board exam question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.

Taiwan's Defense Ministry said in its latest threat assessment Monday that a full Chinese invasion of Taiwan with troops landed and ports and airports seized would be very difficult to achieve.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was hacked yesterday with a message declaring his country had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens.

Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971 is a “classic example” of India’s morals, democratic traditions and just treatment, and Bangladesh has -- in the last half a century -- moved forward on the path of development, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said today.