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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, Shehbaz Sharif. (AFP)

Shehbaz Sharif sworn-in as new Prime Minister of Pakistan

Shehbaz will now form a new government that can remain in place until elections are due in August 2023

12 April 2022 3:54 AM IST

Pakistans opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif, center, speaks while other opposition parties leader watch during a press conference after the Supreme Court decision, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April 7, 2022. (AP/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan Assembly reinstated for no-trust vote

Pak CJ says deputy speaker-'s ruling prima facie violates Article 95

8 April 2022 12:30 AM IST

Sri Lankans participate in a protest demanding president Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign, before the beginning of curfew in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP/Eranga Jayawardena)

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka blocks social media to contain anti-govt protests

Anonymous activists had called for mass protests on Sunday on social media before the order went into effect

3 April 2022 11:36 AM IST

A delivery man wearing personal protective equipment prepares to deliver food bought online for residents who were restricted due to a recent Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, in Ningbo in Chinas eastern Zhejiang province on April 2, 2022. (AFP)

COVID-19 cases rise in Shanghai with millions under lockdown

While small by the standards of some countries, the daily case numbers are some of the largest since the virus was first...

3 April 2022 11:10 AM IST

Residents line up for coronavirus screening during the COVID-19 lockdown in Changchun in northeastern Chinas Jilin province. (Photo: AP)

Major Chinese cities impose COVID-19 restriction as cases spike

The latest spike is being described as the severest COVID-19 outbreaks in two years

14 March 2022 8:28 AM IST

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (AFP file image)

China says friendship with Russia is -'rock solid-'

Cooperation between the two countries brings benefits and well-being to the two peoples, said Chinese Foreign Minister...

7 March 2022 1:58 PM IST

Chinas military budget -- the second largest in the world after the US, though still less than a third of Washingtons -- is set to increase by 6.8 percent in 2021, the finance ministry announced in March. (Representational image: AFP)

China says military spending to grow 7.1 percent in 2022

Some 1.45 trillion yuan ($230 billion) has been set aside for national defence, according to a government budget report

5 March 2022 11:32 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks in a meeting of ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea on Feb. 26, 2022. (Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea says it tested cameras for spy satellite

A spy satellite is among an array of sophisticated weapons systems that Kim Jong Un vowed to develop under military...

28 Feb 2022 9:58 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks in a meeting of ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang. (Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea blames US for Ukraine crisis

North Korea, in a muted response issued in the form of a commentary, said the US was to blame for the unfolding disaster

27 Feb 2022 11:44 AM IST

China is attempting to impose its agenda in Southeast Asia by establishing its Confucius Institutes (CIs). (Photo: ANI)

China using -'cultural appropriation-' to expand soft borders: Report

Cultural appropriation happens when someone from one culture adopts another culture-'s style

25 Feb 2022 12:33 PM IST

New Delhi sought appropriate action by Hyundai and said there would be no compromise on the matter as it involved the territorial integrity of India. (Image credit: Twitter)

South Korea regrets Hyundai Pak-'s offensive post as India erupts

India on Tuesday said it had summoned the South Korean ambassador and conveyed to him New Delhiâ€™s displeasure on the...

9 Feb 2022 9:36 AM IST

A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in Glasgow. (PTI Photo)

-'Gehri dosti-' says PM Bennett as Israel and India mark 30 years of...

Though India had recognised Israel on Sep 17, 1950, full-fledged diplomatic relations between the countries were...

30 Jan 2022 11:55 AM IST