India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today dropped a passage from its class 10 board exam question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.

Taiwan's Defense Ministry said in its latest threat assessment Monday that a full Chinese invasion of Taiwan with troops landed and ports and airports seized would be very difficult to achieve.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was hacked yesterday with a message declaring his country had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens.

Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971 is a “classic example” of India’s morals, democratic traditions and just treatment, and Bangladesh has -- in the last half a century -- moved forward on the path of development, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said today.

India’s Punjab state government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the federal government’s decision that extended the Border Security Force's jurisdiction to undertake search, seizure and arrest within a 50km stretch from the international border in Assam, West Bengal and Punjab, as compared to the earlier 15km.

A Pakistani policeman was shot dead and another officer was hurt while guarding a polio vaccination team yesterday, police said, in an attack claimed by the local Taliban a day after they called off a ceasefire with the government.

Indian police have recovered a stolen watch customised for star footballer Diego Maradona and arrested a suspect behind the alleged theft in Dubai, officials claimed Saturday.

A citizen of Myanmar on Friday pleaded guilty in a plot to attack or kill the country’s pro-democracy UN ambassador, who has refused junta orders to quit, US officials said.

Two people were killed and four wounded in separate bomb explosions Friday in Kabul, the Taliban government said, as the Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility.

The South Korean city of Busan has green-lit plans for an ambitious new ocean settlement, with work on the first neighborhood set to begin next year.

Agra, the city of Taj Mahal, was today the venue of an emotional trek down the memory lane for five retired officers of the Indian army who took part in the famous Tangail air drop by the army’s 2nd parachute battalion which cut off the retreat of Pakistani troops from the north towards Dhaka during the Liberation War on this day, half a century ago.

India has detected 25 cases of the emergent Omicron variant of the coronavirus and all have shown mild symptoms, the health ministry said yesterday, adding that there was no immediate plan to authorise vaccine boosters.

The Chinese embassy in London said an unofficial tribunal of lawyers which accused Beijing of genocide against the Uyghurs was nothing more than a political tool of China’s enemies which were spreading lies.

Taliban militants in Pakistan declared an end to a month-long ceasefire arranged with the aid of the Afghan Taliban, accusing the government of breaching terms including a prisoner release agreement and the formation of negotiating committees.

Amidst an outpour of grief, India today bade farewell to its first chief of defence staff and the country’s senior-most military officer Gen Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika who died along with 11 others in a helicopter crash two days ago.

Consumer inflation in China picked up to its highest level in over a year in November, official data showed Thursday, bolstered by an uptick in pork prices as seasonal demand spiked.

The bodies of India’s defence chief and 12 others who died in a helicopter crash laid draped in the Indian flag at a defence cantonment yesterday, before being flown to New Delhi, where the general will be laid to rest with full military honours.

An activist lawyer detained for more than three years without trial was freed on bail in Mumbai yesterday, in the latest case to highlight the Indian

Jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was among three democracy campaigners convicted yesterday for taking part in a banned

Indian farmers called off a year-long protest yesterday after the government conceded a clutch of demands, including assurances to consider guaranteed prices for all produce, instead of just rice and wheat, union leaders said.