Bollywood composer Vishal Dadlani today took to Twitter to record his apology to and solidarity with Indian Muslims over the row surrounding former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's comments on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

The Indian government on June 14, 2022, announced its biggest reform to the recruitment system for its armed forces that is aimed at giving the nearly 1.2 million strong force a more youthful and tech-savvy profile.

Indian emergency workers rescued a 10-year-old boy with hearing and speech impairments late Tuesday from a narrow well where he was trapped for over four days, the state government said.

The diplomatic crisis India is facing following comments on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by suspended leaders of BJP – Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal – is far from over, according to veteran columnist and journalist Subir Bhaumik.

Protests have been erupting in many Indian cities to condemn the demolition of homes and businesses belonging to Muslims, in what critics call a growing pattern of “bulldozer justice” aimed at punishing activists from the minority group.

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka is asking civil servants to take an extra day off each week to grow crops in their backyards in a bid to forestall a looming food shortage.

Indian emergency workers were scrambling yesterday to rescue a 10-year-old boy with hearing and speech impairments who has been trapped down a narrow well for four days.

The top Chinese and US security advisers have held lengthy talks, with both sides describing them as “candid” following days of acrimonious exchanges over Taiwan and other flashpoint issues.

The Taiwan Strait is an international waterway and Taiwan's government supports U.S. warships transiting it, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, rebuffing claims from China to exercise sovereignty over the strategic passage.

With fresh general elections less than two years away, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced an ambitious employment-generation plan as he instructed that one million people be recruited by his government in mission mode in the next and half years.

Heavily pregnant Sonari toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on Earth.

India today urged the international community to enhance support, financially and otherwise, for Bangladesh to cope with the humanitarian burden of hosting a million Rohingya refugees in its territory.

Leaders of prominent Islamic groups and mosques in India yesterday appealed to fellow Muslims to suspend plans for protests against derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) made by two members of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party.

Kolkata Police today summoned suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for questioning in connection with her controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Police in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland said 30 army soldiers were charged for killing tribal labourers mistaken for militants during an anti-insurgency operation last year.

Police in India’s Kashmir arrested a youth for posting a video threatening to behead a former spokesperson of India’s ruling party who had made derogatory remarks about Islam’s religious leader Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), officials said yesterday.

The leader of India’s main opposition party, Sonia Gandhi, has been admitted to hospital in New Delhi with health issues related to Covid-19, her Congress party said.

Fiji’s defence minister yesterday said that climate change posed the biggest security threat in the Asia-Pacific region, a shift in tone at a defence summit that has been dominated by the war in Ukraine and disputes between China and the United States.

China will “fight to the very end” to stop Taiwanese independence, the country’s defence minister vowed yesterday, stoking already soaring tensions with the United States over the island.

A bomb blast on a minibus killed at least four people and injured several others in the Afghan capital on Saturday, police said.