Success in agitational politics does not always guarantee gains in elections. Nothing drives home this better than how the leaders of farmers’ groups failed miserably in the recent assembly elections in India’s Punjab and Uttar Pradesh states.

The Congress’s disastrous showing in the assembly elections to five states has added to a series of poor results, raising serious questions about the road ahead for India’s oldest party.

Millions of people across China endured lockdowns yesterday as virus cases doubled to nearly 3,400 and anxiety mounted over the resilience of the country’s ‘zero-Covid’ approach in the face of the worst outbreak in two years.

The Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making forum of India’s main opposition yesterday met in New Delhi to discuss the debacles it suffered in recent assembly elections in five states amidst calls by leaders and workers for return of Rahul Gandhi as party chief.

Indian police today arrested four Bangladeshi nationals, who are alleged members of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

“Jhadu (broom) is a key part of my daily life. I can’t think of living away from it. Whatever the position of my son, I will continue to work as a sweeper in our school.”

The Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making forum of India’s main opposition, today met in New Delhi to discuss the debacles it suffered in recent assembly elections in five states amidst calls by leaders and workers for return of Rahul Gandhi as party chief.

China will not build any military base on foreign land, including Bangladesh, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming said today.

Pakistan on Saturday demanded a joint probe into a missile India said it accidentally fired into its territory, rejecting New Delhi's decision to hold an internal inquiry into the incident and calling on the international community to play a role.

The Congress has denied the rumours that the Gandhis -- Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra -- are going to offer their resignation at its top meeting tomorrow, reports India’s news portal NDTV.

India’s counter-terror body National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested six persons who were allegedly part of a gang involved in illegal trafficking of Rohingyas from Bangladesh into Indian territory.

At least seven people were killed after a fire broke out in a cluster of shanties in Delhi's Gokulpuri area in the wee hours of today, police and fire brigade officials said.

Top officials of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party and an army of its supporters bombarded voters with disinformation as key states went to the polls, specialists say.

India’s military accidentally fired a missile into neighbouring Pakistan, New Delhi’s defence ministry said yesterday, calling it “deeply regrettable”.

India today said it has ordered a high-level inquiry into an “accidental firing” of a missile which landed in Pakistani territory.

Overcoming strong anti-incumbency sentiments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP yesterday stormed back into power for a second successive tenure in the most populous and politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

Conservative South Korean opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol rode to victory in a tight presidential election on a wave of discontent over economic policy, scandals and gender wars,

Breaking a 37-year-old jinx, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party -- led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- was today poised to storm back to power for a second successive tenure in the most populous and politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

In what appeared to be a direct threat to the opposition that submitted a no-confidence resolution against Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in the country’s National Assembly a day earlier, the PM yesterday thundered that he had been waiting for this day, claiming confidently that the “definite failure” of the move and regaining of parliament’s confidence will help him “grab the thieves by their necks” and go after them once this “battle of nerves” is over.

Taiwan’s military strategists have been studying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the country’s resistance, for the island’s own battle strategy in the event its giant neighbour China ever makes good on its threat to take them by force.