Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said that India is always in favour of world peace and considered war as the last option but made it clear that peace is not possible without strength.

Xi Jinping secured a historic third term as China’s leader yesterday and filled his inner circle with close allies, achieving after a decade in power complete dominance over the ruling Communist Party.

India’s space agency says its rocket has successfully put 36 internet satellites into orbit for UK-based satellite company OneWeb after months of delay due to the war in Ukraine.

The Chinese Communist Party yesterday unveiled its new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee headed by leader Xi Jinping. Here are the men who will rule Beijing for the next five years under Xi’s leadership, in order of seniority.

When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, some observers predicted he would be the most liberal Communist Party leader in China’s history, based on his low-key profile, family backstory and perhaps a degree of misguided hope.

Xi Jinping on Sunday secured a third term as leader of China's ruling Communist Party and unveiled a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, which he heads, that will determine the path of the country's development in the next five years.

India entered the lucrative and burgeoning world of commercial launch of satellites with the country’s space research organisation, successfully placing 36 satellites of the UK-based communication firm OneWeb in the designated orbit.

Xi Jinping secured a historic third term as China's leader on Sunday and promoted some of his closest Communist Party allies, cementing his position as the nation's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.

Chinese President Xi Jinping was all set for a historic third term in power as the Communist Party’s Congress ended yesterday, but the dramatic removal of his predecessor from the event stole the headlines.

Myanmar was added on Friday to a global financial blacklist while Russia was sidelined by the international money-laundering watchdog FATF.

Australia and Japan agreed to share sensitive intelligence and deepen defence cooperation yesterday, signing a security pact to counter China’s military rise.

Former Chinese president Hu Jintao was unexpectedly led out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress in a dramatic moment that disrupted the highly choreographed event.

China’s Communist Party wrapped up its twice-a-decade congress on Saturday, approving amendments cementing Xi Jinping’s iron grip on the party and revealing a new Central Committee missing two key officials lacking close ties to the leader.

PTI chief Imran Khan filed a plea in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) today (October 22, 2022), challenging the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to disqualify him over what the electoral watchdog cited as his failure to properly account for monetary proceeds from the sale of Toshakhana gifts while he was the prime minister.

At least 14 people have been killed and 40 injured when a bus rammed into a trolley-truck in central Indian state Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district last night (October 21, 2022).

Myanmar was added on Friday to a global financial blacklist while Russia was sidelined by the international money-laundering watchdog FATF.

Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday voted to curtail the powers of the president, a partial concession to the protest movement that forced the island nation’s former head-of-state into exile.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was disqualified yesterday from running for political office for five years, after the election commission ruled he misled officials about gifts he received from foreign leaders while in power.

Pakistan has been removed from an international grey list that warrants increased surveillance for terrorism financing, the head of the international money laundering watchdog which makes the list said yesterday.

Pakistan has been removed from an international grey list that warrants increased surveillance for terrorism financing, the head of the international money laundering watchdog which makes the list said on Friday.