India and China have coexisted as neighbours for millennia, together representing more than a third of humanity and roughly a quarter of the global economy. Yet as both nations have grown more powerful, they appear to have grown more distant from each other, with China in particular showing little curiosity about its southwestern neighbour. Kanti […]
Bangladesh has said a “propitious environment” must be created before Prime Minister Tarique Rahman makes his proposed bilateral visit to India, while once again urging New Delhi to extradite former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Bangladesh Foreign Ministry spokesperson AKM Shahidul Karim said on Sunday that officials from Dhaka and New Delhi had been in contact
A second major earthquake struck Indonesia on Saturday, hours after a powerful 7.7-magnitude quake hit the country’s Flores region, killing at least 38 people and injuring 13 others. The 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia on Saturday afternoon, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS), hours after the earlier 7.7-magnitude tremor devastated the Flores region. The
India and Nepal have agreed to complete the mapping of land occupied across their shared border within three years, giving fresh push to a long-running technical issue that has affected communities on both sides. According to The Kathmandu Post, the decision was taken at the 13th meeting of the Survey Officials’ Committee (SOC), which concluded
As India and Pakistan celebrate Independence Day one day apart, the scars of the devastating partition of the two countries remain apparent. Every year, Indians and Pakistanis who lived through the era, or whose ancestors did, recall how suddenly and abruptly the lines between the two nations were drawn. For this, they have one person
Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove escaped unharmed on Friday after his convoy came under attack in the Khad Kocha area of Mastung district, though six people, including three police personnel, were injured in the assault. Langove was travelling from Kalat to Quetta when gunmen targeted his convoy in the Khad Kocha area. According to
Firefighters across Europe were battling multiple wildfires on Friday as record-breaking heat and severe drought turned large parts of the continent into tinderboxes, forcing thousands of people to evacuate and putting homes, forests and critical infrastructure at risk. Officials have linked the extreme temperatures to human-caused climate change, a challenge that’s proving especially difficult for
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has spoken publicly for the first time about Operation Sindoor, India’s military response to the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians. His comments come as part of an upcoming Discovery docuseries, Declassified: Operation Sindoor, which chronicles the 88-hour operation through first-hand accounts from senior military and national
The village of Piddington has voted to leave the United Kingdom in protest against the government’s decision to house migrants in a former military base nearby. The village, home to just 350 people in Oxfordshire, England, held a referendum and voted to leave the UK in a symbolic protest with no legal effect. The referendum
The Trump administration has launched a global task force aimed at cracking down on so-called “birth tourism,” targeting people accused of misusing US visas to travel to the country specifically to give birth. The State Department announced the Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force on August 12, saying it would work alongside the Department of Homeland
