Indian foreign ministry yesterday refuted West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s claim that the Centre did not consult the state government on the renewal of the Ganga water-sharing treaty with Bangladesh.

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday said the ruling Communist Party was planning and implementing “major” reforms, ahead of a closely watched political conclave that is expected to put economic recovery high on the agenda.

Heavy rainfall and winds brought down a roof at the main airport in New Delhi yesterday, killing one person and disrupting flights from a domestic terminal, while flooded streets and traffic snarls threw daily life out of gear in India’s capital.

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Senior diplomat and India's former ambassador to China Vikram Misri was named as the country's new foreign secretary today, succeeding Vinay Mohan Kwatra

Indian foreign ministry today refuted West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s claim that the Centre did not consult the state government on the renewal of the Ganga water-sharing treaty with Bangladesh

North Korea successfully tested its multiple-warhead missile capability, state media said yesterday, as dozens more trash-laden balloons sent by Pyongyang landed in the South.

Police in the Maldives have arrested a state environment minister, officers said Thursday, with media in the Indian Ocean nation reporting she was accused of performing "black magic" on the president

The United States offered rare criticism of close partner India in a report published yesterday on religious freedom, while also voicing alarm over rising bigotry worldwide against both Jews and Muslims

India’s foreign minister said he voiced concern about the impact of continuing violence in Myanmar in a meeting with his counterpart from the Southeast Asian nation yesterday.

India’s new leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi said yesterday that his lawmakers would not be silenced, in his first speech since formally taking up a post vacant for a decade.

In the first trial of strength on the floor of newly-elected Lok Sabha, lower House of Indian parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance emerged triumphant when its candidate Om Birla was elected to the post of the House Speaker.

Anti-money laundering efforts in Singapore saw the authorities seize $6 billion linked to criminal and money laundering activities between January 2019 and June 2024

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today formally arrested Delhi chief minister and key opposition politician Arvind Kejriwal in connection with a case related to excise policy scam.

In a rare display of bonhomie, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his arch critic Rahul Gandhi shook hands in the newly elected Lok Sabha today following the Speaker's election, in which Om Birla, the nominee for the ruling BJP-led NDA, won by voice vote

A Chinese probe carrying samples from the far side of the Moon returned to Earth yesterday, capping a technically complex 53-day mission heralded as a world first.

India is all set to get its first leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, the lower House of parliament, in a decade as Congress tonight appointed Rahul Gandhi to that post

The West Bengal government was consulted on the renewal of the Ganges water-sharing treaty with Bangladesh, a senior official in India's jal shakti (formerly water resources) ministry said, rejecting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that her state of West Bengal was kept out of the process

South Korean investigators combed the charred wreckage of a lithium factory Tuesday to find the cause of a massive blaze that killed 23 in one of the country's worst factory disasters in years

Hundreds of multinational corporations on Tuesday urged Japan to triple its capacity to generate renewable power by 2035, as the heavily coal-dependent country updates its energy policy