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An employee disinfects and cleans the classroom of a kindergarten in China. (AFP)

Security guard injures Kindergarten students in knife attack in China

Local government in the Guangxi region's Cangwu county said 37 students and two adults suffered injuries of varying...

4 Jun 2020 1:01 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP)

No need for 'third party' intervention at Sino-China border: China

Chinese foreign ministry asserts that China's position on the border issue with India is -"consistent and clear-"

3 Jun 2020 4:14 PM IST

Indian soldiers keep watch at India-China border. (AFP)

US rebukes China for border 'aggression' with India

Pompeo says China's moving of troops to the LAC echoed similarly heavy-handed behaviour over the coronavirus, South...

3 Jun 2020 8:50 AM IST

Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan defends lifting lockdown, urges nation to live with the virus

Imran Khan defends lifting lockdown, urges Pak to -"live with the...

Pakistan has rolled back almost all shutdown measures, primarily to avert an economic meltdown

2 Jun 2020 9:19 AM IST

Abid Hussain and Muhammad Tahir, two officials of the Pakistan high commission who have been apprehended by Indian law enforcement authorities for carrying out espionage activities in the country. (PTI)

Pakistan embassy officials leave India after spying charges

The two had been detained for -"indulging in espionage activities-" by the Indian government, and were given 24 hours to...

1 Jun 2020 3:26 PM IST

Nepalese students shout slogans during a protest against the Indian government inaugurating a new road through a disputed territory between India and Nepal, in Kathmandu, Nepal.(AP)

Nepal tables new bill to alter its map amidst border row with India

Nepal recently released the revised map of the country laying claim over the strategically key areas of Lipulekh,...

31 May 2020 3:42 PM IST

Representational Image. (PTI)

Twin earthquakes strike Nepal

The first tremble measuring 4.8 was felt in Dhading, 75 km west of capital Kathmandu, then another measuring 3.2 at the...

31 May 2020 2:31 PM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping. (AFP)

China also rejects Trump's offer to mediate border standoff

Chinese Foreign Ministry asserts the two countries did not want the -"intervention-" from a third party to resolve the...

29 May 2020 2:47 PM IST

Security personnel stand beside the wreckage of a plane at the site after a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft crashed in a residential area in Karachi. (AFP)

Cockpit voice recorder recovered from debris of crashed Pakistani...

The Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 crashed last Friday into a crowded residential district of the port city...

28 May 2020 3:47 PM IST

Representational Image. (PTI)

Five coronavirus patients die in Bangladesh hospital fire

Lax regulations and poor enforcement have often been blamed for large fires in Bangladesh that have killed many in...

28 May 2020 12:26 PM IST

A shopping mall official (unseen) uses a thermal scanner to check the temperature of shoppers before they enter at the Centaurus Mall after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Islamabad. (AFP)

Pakistan uses militant-tracking tech to hunt virus

Intelligence services are using geo-fencing and phone-monitoring systems that ordinarily are employed to hunt high-value...

28 May 2020 11:43 AM IST

Mr. Thondaman, who was Minister for Community Empowerment and Estate Infrastructure Development, and was the grandson of the prominent trade unionist, Saumyamoorthi Thondaman

Tamil Nadu CM mourns the death of Sri Lankan minister Thondaman

Expressing deep pain and grief at the passing away of Mr. Thondaiman, the Chief Minister sent a condolence message to...

27 May 2020 5:37 PM IST