Taliban authorities have closed the main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, an Afghan official said yesterday, and residents in the area reported the sound of gunfire near the normally bustling border transit point.

Uddhav alleged there was a pre-planned conspiracy to steal Shiv Sena's name and symbol

The launches come just two days after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the sea off Japan's west coast, prompting the United States to hold joint air exercises with South Korea and separately with Japan on Sunday

Rescuers yesterday struggled to reach the slopes of an active volcano in the central Philippines where a small plane is believed to have crashed, officials said, with the fate of those on board still unconfirmed.

North Korea said yesterday it had test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile as a warning to Washington and Seoul, saying the successful “surprise” drill demonstrated Pyongyang’s capacity to launch a “fatal nuclear counterattack”.

The former prime minister and former Pejuang chairman said that he resigned due to a loss of support from Bersatu, which he founded and led at that time

The launch was designed to verify the weapon's reliability and combat readiness of North Korea's nuclear force

The plane was carrying two passengers, a pilot and a crew member

Pakistan’s Taliban yesterday warned of more attacks against law enforcement officers, a day after four people were killed when a suicide squad stormed a police compound in Karachi.

Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar yesterday hit out at “scaremongering” critics who claim the country’s democracy is being corroded, singling out billionaire George Soros -- a popular target for right-wing ire.

A North Korean missile that is believed to have landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone was intercontinental ballistic missile-class, the government in Tokyo said yesterday.

A group of officials from Shanghai arrived in Taiwan yesterday for the first visit to the island by Chinese politicians since 2020.

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi yesterday blasted the United States’s reaction to what Washington has called a Chinese spy balloon as “hysterical and absurd”, in uncharacteristically strong remarks against the top Western power.

The United Nations plans to slash food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, blaming a funding shortfall for cuts that agencies warn would deepen food insecurity and malnutrition in the world’s largest refugee settlement.

Militants yesterday stormed the office of the Karachi police chief in southern Pakistan, which was cleared after hours-long operation that left at least three gunmen dead.

As India’s income tax department concluded its three-day “survey” at BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Thursday night, the international broadcaster said it would continue to report “without fear or favour”.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday declined to accept the names proposed by the Indian government in a sealed cover to be included in a proposed experts’ committee for strengthening regulatory measures for stock exchanges in the light of the crash in prices of the Adani Group.

Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement

India's Central Board of Direct Taxes said its income tax teams during the survey have "unearthed crucial evidence by way of statement of employees, digital proof and documents"

Indian government submitted a note in a sealed cover to the country's supreme court suggesting names of members who can be part of the proposed experts' committee for strengthening regulatory measures for stock exchanges in the light of the crash in prices of the Adani group.