Amidst rising border tension with China, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today embarked on a three-day visit to Russia during which he will hold talks with top Russian military brass.

India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) may ask state-owned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to not use Chinese telecom gear to upgrade its 4G network, in a move which comes amidst India-China military standoff in eastern Ladakh.

Scores of domestic flights in and out of Beijing are canceled as officials ramp up attempts to contain a coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese capital over the past week that sparked fears of renewed wider contagion.

An Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed during a “violent face-off” with the Chinese military in the Himalayan heights of eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley last night, the Indian armed force said today.

Malaysian authorities detain 269 Rohingya refugees and find a body on board a suspected smuggling boat they say was intentionally damaged so it couldn’t be turned back to sea.

India expresses concern at a United Nations report that said a large number of foreign terrorist fighters, including up to 6,500 Pakistani nationals, are operating in Afghanistan and says this vindicates New Delhi’s long-held position that Pakistan remains the epicentre of international terrorism.

China's parliament approves a decision to go forward with national security legislation for Hong Kong that democracy activists in the city and Western countries fear could jeopardise its special autonomy and freedoms.

India’s relations with two of its northern neighbours China and Nepal have of late come under considerable strain over territorial disputes.

Hong Kong activists call for a protest march against Beijing's plans to impose national security legislation in the city, prompting alarm that the new laws could erode its freedoms through "force and fear".

Four people are killed and another 24 injured when an earthquake shakes southwestern China, local authorities say.

UN Security Council European member states and Britain on Thursday denounced violence in Myanmar and expressed concern over the coronavirus pandemic in the country, in a document China refused to endorse, diplomatic sources say.

Chinese youngsters in the global virus epicentre of Wuhan file back to class, wearing masks and walking in single file past thermal scanners.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was not gravely ill, two South Korean government sources said on Tuesday, following reports he had undergone a cardiovascular procedure and was now in "grave danger".

Thailand has found the largest number of nests of rare leatherback sea turtles in two decades on beaches bereft of tourists because of the coronavirus pandemic, environmentalists say.

Sixty-three Bangladeshis reportedly have tested positive for Covid-19 in Malaysia.

The Chinese city where the coronavirus epidemic first broke out, Wuhan, ends a two-month lockdown, but a northern town started restricting the movement of its residents amid concerns of a second wave of infections in mainland China.

The World Health Organization emphasises on a stronger effort from society and governments in South-East Asia to prevent a long-haul struggle with the coronavirus pandemic and avert further loss of human life and other resources.

The top official in China’s coronavirus epicentre of Wuhan warned residents to stay vigilant and avoid going out, even as the latest data showed a decline in new cases in the mainland and no new infections in the central city.

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India will pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, as officials battle to contain the country’s biggest cluster of coronavirus infections in the capital, New Delhi.