A Bangladeshi national was found dead inside the room of a hotel in central Kolkata on Thursday, a media report said today quoting police.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said he will not resign, rejecting opposition calls for him to step down ahead of a no-confidence move against him in his toughest challenge since coming to power in 2018.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in New Delhi tonight on a previously unannounced visit, the first to India by a senior leader from Beijing since the armies of the two countries were involved in a clash in eastern Ladakh in May, 2020.

India today reacted sharply to references made to it in statements and resolutions adopted in the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Council, in Pakistan.

India’s Supreme Court today declined a request for an early hearing on the petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court’s ruling that upheld a ban on wearing of hijabs inside educational institutions.

India on Wednesday termed Chinese foreign minister’s reference to Jammu and Kashmir during the meeting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation “uncalled” for.

Oil prices rose on Wednesday amid volatile trading on increasing concerns of global supply tightness from sanctions imposed on Russia, the world’s second-largest oil exporter, and on signs that exports from Kazakhstan may be disrupted.

The OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad today unanimously adopted a resolution on the “Situation of the Rohingya Muslim Community in Myanmar” to keep the momentum in exerting continuous pressure on Myanmar authorities.

Chinese searchers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) plane that crashed this week in forest-clad mountains with 132 people onboard, the aviation regulator said.

As many as 1,630 Bangladeshi nationals are among the 3,467 foreign undertrial prisoners lodged in different Indian jails, the Rajya Sabha was told today.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers decided against opening schools to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a previous promise and opting to appease their hardline base at the expense of further alienating the international community.

India has decided to revoke all Covid-19 restrictions from March 31, after long two years.

The reopening of secondary schools for girls across Afghanistan on Wednesday prompted joy and apprehension among the tens of thousands of students deprived of an education since the Taliban's return to power.

The search for clues into why a plane made an inexplicable dive and crashed into a mountain in southern China was suspended Wednesday as rain slicked the debris field and filled the red-dirt gash formed by the plane’s fiery impact.

At least 11 workers were burnt to death in their sleep as a fire broke out at a warehouse in southern Indian city of Hyderabad in the wee hours of today, police said.

In a suspected case of an intra-party feud, miscreants set on fire about a dozen houses at a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district leaving at least seven people dead, police and fire brigade officials said yesterday.

Rescuers combed heavily forested mountain slopes in southern China yesterday, using shovels and torches in their hunt for victims and flight recorders from a China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS jet that crashed with 132 people on board. 

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan trumpeted his Islamic credentials yesterday at a meeting of foreign ministers from Muslim nations, even as he battles the most serious domestic challenge to his rule since coming to power.

Myanmar's junta on Tuesday said it "categorically rejects" a United States declaration that its armed forces committed genocide against the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority during a military crackdown five years ago.

At least ten people have been “burnt alive” in their houses which were set on fire in a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.