China is opposed to US “smearing and sabotage” of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Panama through “pressure and coercion”, its foreign ministry said yesterday, after the South American nation decided to exit the programme.

The Trump administration has begun using military aircraft to underscore its determination to deport undocumented migrants

'It is regrettable that the historic residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a symbol of the heroic resistance of the people of Bangladesh against the forces of occupation and oppression, was destroyed on February 5, 2025,' says MEA spokesperson

India today said it has not conveyed any response to Bangladesh on the latter's request for extradition of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina for her alleged crimes committed before she fled to India last year

The United States deported the 104 Indians as part of an immigration crackdown under the Donald Trump administration

A US military aircraft carrying 104 illegal immigrants landed in Amritsar city of the northern Indian state of Punjab today in the first such batch of Indians deported by the Donald Trump government

Delhi, a sprawling megacity home to more than 30 million people, has been governed for most of the past decade by charismatic Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party

China yesterday said it would impose tariffs on imports of US energy, vehicles and equipment, firing a return salvo in an escalating trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.

Gunmen killed four members of the Pakistani security forces and their driver in an attack in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police told AFP yesterday.

Indian commandos shot dead at least eight Maoist rebels in the dense jungles of central India yesterday, as security forces ramp up efforts to crush the long-running conflict.

VSHORADS is a manually-portable air defence missile system designed and developed indigenously which has the capability to meet the needs of army, navy and air force, it said in a statement

The latest Indian budget enhanced the assistance by 28.5 percent to the Maldives to Rs 600 crore from Rs 400 crore in the previous budget

This fiscal's budget stands at $79 billion

Taiwan has banned workers in the public sector and at key infrastructure facilities from using DeepSeek, saying it was a Chinese product and could endanger national security

Sri Lanka’s consumer prices fell by 4.0 percent in January, the highest deflation rate since July 1960, official data showed yesterday, as the South Asian nation emerges from its worst economic meltdown.

Myanmar’s ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported yesterday, a day ahead of the four-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the country into chaos after a decade of tentative democracy.

Indian soldiers killed two fighters in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) along the heavily militarised frontier with Pakistan as they attempted to cross into the Indian-administered part of the disputed territory, the army said yesterday.

Cross-border trade between Bangladesh and Myanmar through Teknaf Land Port is in disarray as the Arakan Army, a Myanmar-based rebel group, disrupts ship movement along the Naf river estuary.

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India yesterday, police sources and a Reuters witness said, as tens of millions gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on the most auspicious day of a six-week Hindu festival.

Japan saw a record number of suicides among school pupils in 2024, health ministry data showed yesterday.