Pakistan on Thursday denounced new US sanctions on the country's ballistic missile program as "discriminatory" that put the region's peace and security at risk, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Pakistan's foreign ministry warned in a (...)
Kenyan business student Nelson Amenya has been hailed as a hero by those campaigning for greater transparency in the deals his government makes with private firms.
Recent Kenyan history is littered with stories of huge contracts that have resulted (...)
At least 13 people have died and two others are in critical condition after a collision between a passenger ferry and a navy speedboat near to a popular tourist destination in Mumbai, India, according to a local official.
Devendra Fadnavis, chief (...)
An Indian woman who says she was trafficked to Pakistan more than two decades ago has finally returned home — 18 months after her grandson spotted her in a YouTube video. Hamida Banu said she had spent the last 22 years "as a living corpse", trapped (...)
Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73.
The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, at a hospital in San Francisco, his family said in a statement.
Hussain was a (...)
Last year, India nudged past China to become the world's most populous country, according to UN estimates.
With nearly 1.45 billion people now, you'd think the country would be quiet about having more children. But guess what? The chatter has (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia claimed first place at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth (WAICY), outperforming 129 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Greece, Canada, and Singapore.
The (...)
Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion after beating Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday.
The 18-year-old Gukesh and defending champion Ding entered the last (...)
India's top court is hearing a number of petitions challenging a decades-old law that preserves the character and identity of religious places as they existed at the time of the country's independence in 1947.
The law, introduced in 1991, prohibits (...)
A 92-year-old Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki called for the abolition of all nuclear weapons, as he accepted this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday.
"Imagine this: there are 4,000 nuclear warheads that could (...)
"The forest is our supermarket," says Anice Justin. "We get almost everything from the forests on these islands. It is what we survive on."
Justin, an anthropologist, has grown up in the Andaman and Nicobar islands straddling India's east coast. A (...)
A Muslim couple in India have been hounded out of their newly-purchased home by their Hindu neighbors who said they would not allow them to live there because of their religion.
Hindu residents of the posh TDI City – an upscale residential bloc in (...)
Antibiotics are hailed as medical saviors.
But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt and outwit the very drugs designed to defeat them and cure the infections they cause.
These antibiotic-resistant (...)
The northeastern Indian state of Assam has banned the consumption of beef in public places including restaurants and events.
This is an expansion to an earlier rule that restricted the sale of beef near certain religious places like temples, Chief (...)
A war of words between Bangladesh and neighbor India is threatening to spiral out of control following protests and counter-protests over the alleged ill-treatment of Hindu minorities in the country.
Diplomatic relations between the neighbors and (...)
Police in India say they have reached out for information to Elon Musk's Starlink after they allegedly found drug smugglers using its satellite internet device to navigate Indian waters and reach the country's shore.
Starlink claims to provide (...)
Forty years ago, an Indian city became the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
On the night of 2 December, 1984, a poisonous gas leaked from Union Carbide India's pesticide plant in Bhopal, enveloping the central Indian city in a (...)
More than two years after the Supreme Court granted bail and ordered "immediate release" of Mohammed Zubair from prison, the leading Indian fact-checker and journalist is once again back in court.
On Tuesday, the Allahabad high court briefly heard (...)
India's airlines and airports received 999 hoax bomb threats this year as of 14 November, the country's deputy civil aviation minister told its parliament.
This was nearly 10 times more than the threats received in 2023, Murlidhar Mohol said.
More (...)
Israel will appeal against the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.
Judges last week issued warrants for the two men along with Hamas military commander (...)
A proposal to amend a decades-old law that governs properties worth millions of dollars donated as endowments by Indian Muslims over centuries has triggered protests in the country.
The endowment properties, or waqf, which include mosques, (...)
The arrest of a Hindu monk in Bangladesh has triggered a fresh war of words with neighbor India over the condition of minorities in the country.
Chinmoy Krishna Das, a spokesperson of a Bangladesh-based Hindu organization, was arrested on sedition (...)
Two days after deadly violence in Sambhal left four people dead and many others injured, the city in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh remains gripped by tension.
The violence broke out on Sunday during a court-ordered survey of the (...)
اختتمت النسخة الثانية من معرض ربط الشركات التجارية العالمية بالمملكة العربية السعودية، الذي انعقد بالتزامن مع معرض 4P الخليج ومعرض الآلات والأدوات والمعرض الدولي للبناء والتصميم الداخلي،أعمالها بنجاح عظيم، مرسخة سمعة المعرض كمنصة رائدة في تعزيز فرص (...)
In October, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) sent a chartered flight carrying Indian nationals back home, marking a growing trend in deportations to India.
This was no ordinary flight – it was one of muliple large-scale "removal flights" (...)
