Culture in many ways is the essence of soft power,’’ Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said as India and France signed what he called ’’a project of great national importance’’ - a museum, the world’s largest, which will be located on Raisi

A nine-year-old child and four adults have been killed after a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.

Malaysia’s Cabinet has agreed to a proposal to launch a new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared mysteriously 10 years ago, the Transport Minister said today.

India and China have reached a consensus over resuming the Indian pilgrim’s pilgrimage Kailash Mansarovar Yatra after years of border standoff. Both sides have also emphasised on the measures to promote and maintain peace with special mention to c

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kuwait on December 21-22, the first Indian Prime Minister to do so in 43 years.

An Indian Navy speedboat that was undergoing engine trials lost control and collided with a passenger ferry off the Mumbai coast today. The navy in a statement said 13 people including a naval officer and two people from the original equipment manufa

China is ready to work with India to implement the important common understandings between the leaders of the two countries and work to bring bilateral relations back on track as soon as possible, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Militants shot a police officer guarding polio vaccinators on Monday, police said, the day after health workers launched a nationwide campaign against the resurgent disease.

Delhi’s pollution has once again soared to hazardous levels, with a top expert warning that India’s toxic air will have a bigger impact on public health than the Covid-19 pandemic.

Taiwan has received 38 advanced Abrams battle tanks from the United States, the defence ministry said Monday, as the island boosts its military capabilities against a potential Chinese attack.

A high-ranking general in the Russian armed forces has been killed in an explosion in Moscow.

The presence of poliovirus has been detected in eight districts, a day after four more cases of the crippling diseases were confirmed.

A student opened fire at a private Christian school in the US state of Wisconsin, injuring six people and killing a teacher and teenaged student.

A Uyghur militant group that helped to topple Bashar-al Assad has vowed to take the fight to China.

Close to 1,000 people may have been killed after Cyclone Chido hit Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, according to the island’s top official.

China’s defence ministry on Friday broke its silence about days of military activities around Taiwan, saying it was entitled to stage exercises and the military would ’’not be absent’’ if required to fight separatist forces.

World-renowned tabla maestro Zakir Hussain passed away on Monday at a hospital in San Francisco, his family confirmed. He was 73 years old.

The yuan was under pressure against the dollar on Thursday, giving up some initial gains as markets digested a Reuters report that China is considering allowing a weaker yuan to weather the tariff risks.

ABC News has agreed to pay $15m (£12m) to US President-elect Donald Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit after its star anchor falsely said he had been found ’’liable for rape’’.

Beggars from Pakistan, who gained attention after causing disturbances during pilgrimages in Saudi Arabia, are back in the news for their extravagant lifestyles and the rise of begging as a profitable business. A beggar from Gujranwala recently went

The United States unveiled trade restrictions Tuesday on eight companies, including two Chinese firms and several from Russia, alleging human rights violations.

United States President Joe Biden has commuted nearly 1,500 prison sentences and pardoned 39 people in what the White House has described as the largest act of clemency in a single day in the country’s modern history.

After utilising India’s strengths in IT and software for its global operations, Rockwell Automation is betting on turning India into an important manufacturing hub, a senior company official has said.

China has deployed the largest number of naval ships to regional waters around Taiwan since the mid-1990s, the Defense Ministry in Taipei said Tuesday, amid growing speculation that Beijing has launched another round of war games.

As internet woes continue to hamper digital activities, Pakistan has landed in the bottom 12% globally for both mobile and broadband internet speeds, as reported by Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index.

Former South Korean Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun, who is accused of playing a lead role in the failed imposition of martial law on Dec 3, has attempted suicide inside a detention centre, a justice ministry official told Parliament.

The dilemma Xi Jinping faces in using the Chinese-sponsored ‘Panchen Lama’ to legitimize his choice for the next Dalai Lama has grown multifaceted and increasingly complicated due to the lack of credibility of the ‘Panchen Zuma.’

Air India on Monday confirmed that it placed an order to purchase 100 more Airbus aircraft, comprising 10 widebody A350 and 90 narrowbody A320 Family aircraft, including A321neo.

Chairman John Moolenaar and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have raised significant concerns about Webull Financial LLC’s ownership structure and operational ties to China.

About 87,000 people were being evacuated in a central Philippine region Tuesday a day after a volcano briefly erupted with a towering ash plume and superhot streams of gas and debris hurtling down its western slopes.