The situation between India and China in the western Himalayan region of Ladakh is fragile and dangerous, with military forces deployed very close to each other in some parts, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said yesterday.

More than 800,000 young North Koreans have volunteered to join the army to fight “US imperialists”, state media said Saturday, days after Pyongyang test-fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile.

Eleven students, who graduated from Japan Automechanic School in Dhaka, are set to leave for Japan to start their career as automechanics.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was set to appear in court today as police were entering his home and after he expressed fear of arrest in a standoff with the government that has led to intense clashes with his supporters..Facing a spate of legal challenges, including one that pr

The situation between India and China in the western Himalayan region of Ladakh is fragile and dangerous, with military forces deployed very close to each other in some parts, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said today..At least 24 soldiers were killed when the two sides clashed in th

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An arrest warrant for former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was suspended yesterday, his lawyers said, clearing the way for him to end a holdout at his residence that led to bloody clashes between supporters and police earlier this week.

A West Bengal state minister yesterday said two additional canals will be dug to divert water from the Teesta and irrigate farms in the northern parts of the state.

Three key opposition parties in India have agreed to keep both the Congress and the BJP at an arm’s length, indicating they will follow a policy of treating the two parties equally.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida yesterday pledged to boost child allowances and paid parental leave as he warned the country faced its “last chance” to tackle a declining population.

At least 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, according to a doctor's post-mortem report, in what opponents of military rule say was a massacre of civilians conducted by the army.

Pakistan’s Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended today non-bailable arrest warrants issued for PTI chairman Imran Khan till March 18, providing him with a chance to appear before the trial court, which is hearing the Toshakhana reference against the former premier of the country..IHC Chief

India's West Bengal government has indicated it will go ahead with the work of digging two canals to channel water from the Teesta river for irrigation in northern parts of the state.

The number of South Koreans who tied the knot last year hit a record low, figures showed yesterday, compounding looming demographic woes in a country with the world’s lowest birth rate.

A new dengue treatment that could become the first to prevent and treat the virus has proven effective in initial trials in monkeys, according to new research.

India yesterday approved purchases of missiles, helicopters, artillery guns and electronic warfare systems worth $8.5 billion as it sought to add more teeth to its military.

China urged the United States to stop “unreasonably suppressing” TikTok yesterday, after Washington gave the popular video-sharing app an ultimatum to part

A Pakistan court declined yesterday to cancel an arrest warrant for former prime minister Imran Khan, one of his lawyers said, as hundreds of his supporters held a vigil at his home and vowed to stop police from detaining him.

A retired Taiwan navy officer and a former member of the country’s parliament were charged yesterday over an alleged bid to build a spy network for China.

Two police officers were shot dead in the line of duty early yesterday in Edmonton in Canada’s western Alberta province, officials said.