“... I hope this small step will wake up others. We want it to start as soon as possible. Many people from Bengal have been tapped.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday announced the setting up a committee comprising retired judges Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya to probe the Pegasus spyware controversy.

Rescuers waded through waist-deep mud in western India yesterday to reach injured residents and start a massive clean-up after heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and floods that killed 159 people.

Myanmar’s junta yesterday cancelled the results of 2020 polls won by Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, announcing they were not “free and fair” almost six months after deposing the Nobel laureate in a coup.

Rancour marked the start of yesterday’s talks between Beijing and the highest-level US envoy to visit under President Joe Biden’s administration, as Beijing urged Washington to stop “demonising” China while the US made a “forceful” case against China’s human rights violations.

Six police officers from Assam were killed in the fresh violence that broke out yesterday at the disputed Assam-Mizoram border, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said.

At least six personnel of Assam Police were killed in firing by miscreants from neighbouring Mizoram today as the border dispute between the two adjacent north eastern Indian states took an unprecedented violent turn.

India is proud of its pluralistic traditions and happy to discuss the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit beginning on Tuesday, foreign ministry sources said after Washington said he planned to raise New Delhi's human rights record.

India has no plan to print new banknotes to tide over the economic fallout triggered by Covid-19, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the parliament today.

Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi rode a tractor to the parliament today -- protesting the three contentious farm laws.

Al Qaeda is present in at least 15 Afghan provinces, primarily in the eastern, southern and southeastern regions, says a United Nations report prepared for the Security Council.

Malaysia’s Parliament reopened Monday for the first time this year after a seven-month suspension due to a coronavirus emergency that has failed to curb a worsening pandemic.

Asking for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Pegasus controversy, India’s senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said that the government should either go for the investigation or appoint a sitting judge of the Supreme Court to take the issue further.

Nine people were killed by a landslide in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradeshin yesterday as boulders fell and hit the vehicle they were travelling in, news agency ANI reported.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has suggested that the Afghan security forces’ first job was to make sure they could slow the Taliban’s momentum before attempting to retake territory, as Afghan forces plan to consolidate forces around strategically important parts of the country. 

Indonesia is preparing more intensive care units after logging several days of record-high Covid-19 deaths last week, while President Joko Widodo yesterday announced an extension of restrictions by a week to August 2 to try to curb infections.

Chinese tech giant Tencent must relinquish its exclusive music label rights, the market regulator said Saturday, after finding that the firm had violated antitrust laws.

Typhoon In-Fa uprooted trees and drenched communities in knee-deep water in parts of eastern China, but there were no reports of major damage as it made landfall yesterday. 

China’s growing presence in Myanmar, the Rohingya refugees, illegal immigration, and drug trafficking have serious security concerns for north east India, according to India’s Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday that the Afghan security forces' first job was to make sure they could slow the Taliban's momentum before attempting to retake territory, as Afghan forces plan to consolidate forces around strategically important parts of the country.