China has released its position paper on the Russia-Ukraine war, in which it calls for a ceasefire and talks between the two parties. Conflict and war “benefit no one”, China said on Friday in the 12-point paper.

Nepal’s ruling coalition was in turmoil yesterday after the prime minister said he planned to support a presidential candidate from an opposition party, a decision that prompted the deputy prime minister and three other ministers to resign.

The EU and India revived negotiations to forge a free trade agreement last year with the aim of completing talks by the end of 2023

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka yesterday announced its first major foreign investment since it declared bankruptcy, approving a $442 million wind power project by India’s scandal-hit Adani group.

Dozens of people remained missing yesterday following a collapse at a coal mine in northern China that killed six, state media reported.

India wants the geopolitical tension to be referred to as a "crisis" or a "challenge" while the US and other western nations want to describe it as nothing short of "war"

The Indian government has approved the renaming of BJP-Shiv Sena-ruled Maharashtra state’s Aurangabad city as `Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar’ and Osmanabad city as `Dharashiv’.

India’s Supreme Court today rejected a plea seeking to gag the media from reporting on the Adani-Hindenburg issue.

US President Joe Biden yesterday said that Washington is nominating former Mastercard Chief Executive Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank, after its current chief David Malpass announced plans to step down early.

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka yesterday announced its first major foreign investment since it declared bankruptcy, approving a $442 million

The project comes after Sri Lanka awarded Adani a $700 million strategic port terminal project in Colombo in 2021

At least two people were killed and more than 50 are missing, Chinese state media reported, after an apparent collapse at a coal mine in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region yesterday.

China said yesterday its top diplomat, Wang Yi, met Russia’s security chief and both sides agreed that peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region should be resolutely upheld, and opposed the introduction of a Cold War “mentality”.

Pakistan will this week receive a new $700 million loan from China to help shore up its foreign exchange reserves, the country’s finance minister said yesterday, in another step to help the South Asian nation recover from an economic crisis.

The belt-tightening comes as Islamabad - which is facing a balance of payment crisis - thrashes out a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to secure funds worth $1 billion

India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar yesterday said the timing of the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not accidental.

The secretary of Russia’s powerful Security Council told China’s top diplomat Wang Yi yesterday that Beijing was a top priority for Russian foreign policy and that the two countries must stick together against the West, Russian state news agencies reported.

Taiwan will boost military exchanges with the United States to curb “authoritarian expansionism”, President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday after meeting with visiting US lawmakers.

Bankrupt Sri Lanka is set to postpone local elections due next month, according to a top official, prompting opposition protests yesterday that forced parliament

A key regional party of India yesterday demanded the Election Commission “should be dissolved” and said election commissioners should be elected by the people, two days after losing the name and symbol of the Shiv Sena, the party founded by his father Bal Thackeray.