The visit of India’s foreign minister to Pakistan earlier this week was a “good beginning” that could lead to a thaw in relations between the two rivals, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was quoted as saying by Indian media yesterday.

North Korea has decided to send a “large-scale” troop deployment to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine, with 1,500 special forces already in Russia’s Far East and undergoing training, Seoul’s spy agency said yesterday.

The threat was communicated to the city’s traffic control room via its WhatsApp helpline on Thursday afternoon. Officials reported that the sender issued a direct threat to the actor and insisted on the substantial monetary demand. An investigation is currently underway to trace the source of the message.

China test-fired two missiles during a day of military drills around Taiwan, a Taiwanese security official said, adding they were directed inland and not at the self-ruled island.

In a landmark ruling today, the Supreme Court of India upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the 1955 Citizenship Act, which grants Indian citizenship to certain illegal immigrants in Assam, primarily from Bangladesh

The teenager was summoned for questioning after police tracked him down as the operator of the X account used to send threats

North Korea's recent launch of waste balloons towards South Korea goes beyond a mere act of provocation, representing a multipurpose strategy aimed at political and psychological effects

The 99-year-old was on the witness stand on Oct 14, and was due to appear in court again on Oct 16 and 17

India yesterday signed a deal with the US State Department to buy 31 armed MQ-9B SkyGuardian and SeaGuardian High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) drones, the South Asian nation’s defence ministry said.

India today expelled six senior Canadian diplomats after announcing its decision to withdraw its High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other "targeted" diplomats and officials in Canada

India said yesterday it was withdrawing its envoy to Canada because Ottawa was investigating him and other diplomats as “persons of interest”, after the killing last year of a Sikh separatist leader.

China ended a day of military drills around Taiwan yesterday in which it deployed fighter jets and warships in what Beijing said was a “stern warning” to “separatist” forces on the self-ruled island.

Pakistan’s capital was under strict security lockdown as Chinese Premier Li Qiang landed in the city yesterday ahead of a heads-of-government gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation this week.

'We have no faith in the current Canadian government's commitment to ensure their security. Therefore, the government of India has decided to withdraw the High Commissioner and other targeted diplomats and officials,' says the Indian Ministry of External Affairs

Mumbai airport received a message on X (formerly Twitter) regarding a bomb threat in the flight bound to New York. T

The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA), an apex body of Resident Doctors' Associations (RDAs), called for a nationwide shutdown of elective services in hospitals from today, in solidarity with the medics' ongoing protest in West Bengal state against the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata

A senior politician in India’s financial capital Mumbai was shot dead on Saturday, weeks ahead of key state elections, with police probing the role of a notorious crime gang.

Unidentified gunmen attacked a cluster of small private coal mines in southwestern Pakistan early yesterday, shooting some miners as they slept and lining up others before opening fire, killing 21 in the restive region, police said.

The half-brother of Ratan Tata was appointed yesterday as the head of the powerful and influential philanthropic arm of India’s Tata group, giving him indirect control of the $165 billion conglomerate.

Ratan Tata, India's most respected industrialist and philanthropist who passed in Mumbai yesterday, was cremated this evening with full state honours amidst a rising outpour of rich tributes from all walks of life