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Such cruises, known as freedom of navigation operations, routinely draw protests from Beijing. (Representational Image)

Britain to assert free passage, sail warship through South China sea :...

The anti-submarine frigate HMS Sutherland will sail through the area on its return from a visit to Australia beginning...

13 Feb 2018 2:42 PM IST

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders and supporters protest in Dhaka on Monday. (Photo: AFP)

Thousands protest conviction of Zia for graft in Bangladesh

Thousands of BNP activists in cities across Bangladesh joined hands in a march calling for Zia's immediate release from...

13 Feb 2018 6:48 AM IST

Duterte who came into power after vouching to kill all of the countrys drug users and peddlers has been doing just that. (Photo: File)

Shoot them in their vagina: What Prez Duteres wants to do to female...

This is not the first time that Duterte has come under the limelight for being openly misogynistic and tried to brush it...

12 Feb 2018 7:24 PM IST

Victoria state police said they had arrested the driver of a car after it collided with a number of pedestrians in downtown Melbourne. (Photo: File)

1 woman killed, 12 injured after knife attack in Beijing shopping mall

Beijing police said in a short statement they had detained a man over the early afternoon attack at the Joy City Mall in...

11 Feb 2018 3:27 PM IST

TV channels broadcast footage of rescuers cutting open the roof of the bus, operated by the Kowloon Motor Bus Co., and bodies of passengers laid out on the ground, covered in white sheets. (Photo: AP)

Hong Kong: Speeding double-decker crashes, kills 19, injures over 60

Local media reports said the bus tipped over and quoted passengers as saying it was full and traveling very fast.

11 Feb 2018 10:39 AM IST

We would like to note that although they have been asked to leave the Maldives, no other legal steps shall be taken against them, the police said. (Photo: ANI)

2 arrested scribes including Indian national ordered to leave Maldives

Journalists arrested by Maldivian police for violating immigration rules have been ordered to leave the nation facing...

10 Feb 2018 4:12 PM IST

North Korea has sent a delegation of 22 athletes to compete in five disciplines, with their womens ice hockey players to compete in a unified Korean team. (Photo: ANI)

2018 Winter Olympics: Korean athletes under unified flag at opening...

The two-hour long opening ceremony of the first Winter Olympics in South Korea was held under the slogan, "Passion,...

10 Feb 2018 7:58 AM IST

Kulbhushan Jadhav

India hasn't replied to queries on Jadhav: Pakistan

Jadhav, 47, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court in April on charges of espionage and terrorism.

10 Feb 2018 3:19 AM IST

Kim Yo-jong, top right, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, sits alongside Kim Yong-nam, president of the Presidium of North Korean Parliament, and behind U.S. Vice President Mike Pence as she watches the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

Kim sister begins historic South Korea visit

For security reasons, few details of Ms Kim's three-day itinerary have been made public.

10 Feb 2018 3:17 AM IST

The action against the two journalists came as a privately-owned television station in the Maldives went off the air, citing threats during the countrys current state of emergency. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Amid political crisis, 1 Indian among 2 journos detained in Maldives

The journalists have been detained in the Maldives for working in the country in violation of its immigration rules.

9 Feb 2018 8:18 PM IST

China views the Maldives as key to its Maritime Silk Road project in the Indian Ocean as it has already acquired Hambantota port in Sri Lanka and Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. (Photo: AP)

Doesn't want Maldives to become another flash point', in talks with...

The Doklam stand-off and China's opposition to declaring Masood Azhar, a global terrorist at UN had been major irritants...

9 Feb 2018 3:53 PM IST

Mashkoor Ahmad Lari is the owner of Kathmandus five-star Everest Hotel, which remained closed after its building developed major cracks in 2015 earthquakes. (Screengrab | theeveresthotel.com)

Wanted by Interpol, top Indian hotelier in Nepal held for drug...

The police was searching the hotelier after narcotic drugs were found in a parcel dispatched by him from Kathmandu to...

9 Feb 2018 8:59 AM IST