DAVOS —Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said on Tuesday that he believed the oil market was in good shape and expected the demand to increase by 1.3 million barrels per day in 2025.
He made the statement to Reuters on the sidelines of the World Economic (...)
A senior Taliban figure has called on the group's leader to scrap education bans on women and girls in the country.
In a rare public rebuke of government policy, Sher Abbas Stanikzai said there are no excuses for the bans, according to the (...)
Police in the Indian city of Mumbai have arrested a man in connection with a knife attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan last week.
Khan, one of India's biggest stars, was stabbed by an intruder at his home, in an attack that shocked the country. (...)
Nepal has been celebrated globally for tripling its tiger population in a decade — but Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli thinks the country may have been too successful.
"In such a small country, we have more than 350 tigers... We can't have so many (...)
Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations.
These self-proclaimed codebreakers — ranging from engineers and IT workers to retirees and (...)
Indian space agency Isro has for the first time successfully conducted space docking by joining together two small craft in space.
The technology is essential for the country's future ambition to build an Indian space station and put a person on the (...)
A US-based short-seller that had published reports accusing top financial entities in India and abroad of financial wrongdoings and fraud is set to shut down.
Nate Anderson, the founder of Hindenburg Research, announced on Wednesday that he was (...)
India's latest diplomatic outreach to Afghanistan's Taliban government signals a marked shift in how it sees the geopolitical reality in the region.
This comes more than three years after India suffered a major strategic and diplomatic blow when (...)
Two lunar landers built by private companies in the US and Japan have left Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket as part of a rideshare to the Moon.
The Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:09 local time (06:09 GMT) on Wednesday, (...)
One of India's wealthiest temples has apologized after six people were killed and dozens more injured in a crush as they queued for tickets to a festival that attracts millions each year.
The incident took place on Wednesday night after thousands (...)
Ashish Chauhan dreams of pursuing an MBA at an American university next year — a goal he describes as being "stamped in his brain".
The 29-year-old finance professional from India (whose name has been changed on request) hopes to eventually work in (...)
A survivor of a coal mine disaster in India has shared a harrowing account of the moments after the tunnel was suddenly engulfed by water.
Ravi Rai was working in the mine in the northeastern state of Assam on Monday morning when water entered the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia amended the Traffic Law under which driving a vehicle on the roads with an expired vehicle registration (istimara) will be a traffic violation. The Cabinet session, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman in (...)
Rescuers in India are racing against time to bring out miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in the northeastern state of Assam.
Three of the nine men inside were feared dead, Reuters reported, after the state government said rescue teams had (...)
The body of an Indian journalist who had reported on alleged corruption in the country has been found in a septic tank in Chhattisgarh state. Mukesh Chandrakar, 32, went missing on New Year's Day and his family registered a complaint with the (...)
A 70-year-old farmer leader in India has been on hunger strike for more than 40 days in a bid to push the federal government to accept the demands of protesting farmers.
Doctors say that Jagjit Singh Dallewal's health has deteriorated and that he is (...)
A thick blanket of fog has engulfed Delhi and adjoining areas in northern India, leading to travel delays and chaos.
More than 100 flights were delayed at the Delhi airport on Friday morning, according to PTI news agency. Dozens of trains have also (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's trade balance recorded a 30 percent monthly growth, achieving a surplus of SR 20.769 billion in October 2024, according to the Kingdom's recently released global trade bulletin. This marks an increase of over SR 4 billion (...)
Authorities in India have removed hundreds of tons of toxic waste from a chemical factory that witnessed one of the world's deadliest gas leaks 40 years ago.
Thousands of people died in the central city of Bhopal in December 1984 after breathing a (...)
Thousands of people rallied at a "March for Unity" in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Tuesday to mark the student-led uprising five months ago, Reuters reported. The unrest that led to the ouster of longstanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left (...)
India launched its first space docking mission on Monday, on an Indian-made rocket, in an attempt to become the fourth country to achieve the advanced technological feat, Reuters reported.
The mission, called Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), (...)
A Jeju Air passenger plane burst into flames on Sunday after skidding off the runway at Muan Airport in South Korea, crashing into a concrete wall.
The accident, caused by an apparent failure of the front landing gear to deploy, claimed 177 lives (...)
China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, stoking concerns about displacement of communities in Tibet and environmental impacts downstream in India and Bangladesh.
The dam, which will be located in the (...)
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92.
Singh was one of India's longest-serving prime ministers and was considered the architect of key liberalizing economic reforms, as premier from 2004-2014 and before that as (...)
Fear and uncertainty are spreading across many US college campuses ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's January 20 inauguration, with some schools advising international students to return early from winter break amid promises of another travel (...)
