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This handout from the Myanmar Fire Services Department taken and released on July 2, 2020 shows rescuers attempting to locate survivors after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin state. (AFP)

113 dead in Myanmar-'s jade mine landslide

Dozens of low-paid migrant workers die each year while working in the country-'s highly lucrative but poorly regulated...

2 July 2020 1:08 PM IST

A man driving a vehicle in an ethnic Uighur neighbourhood in Aksu in the region of Xinjiang. (AFP)

Calls for UN probe on Chinaâ€™s forced birth control on muslim women

A recent AP investigation had found Chinese government taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and...

1 July 2020 10:25 AM IST

A paramilitary soldier (L) stands guard next to a board showing KSE-100 Index information at the Pakistan Stock Exchange a day after a gunmen attack in Karachi on June 30, 2020. (AFP)

Imran Khan accuses India of Karachi stock exchange attack

Khan offered no evidence for his allegation, but he said there had been intelligence reports warning of attacks in...

1 July 2020 10:05 AM IST

Representational image (AFP)

India has responsibility to uphold our businesses: China

India on Monday banned 59, mostly Chinese, mobile apps in its strongest move yet targeting China

30 Jun 2020 1:48 PM IST

Police collect evidence next to the bodies of alleged gunmen outside the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in Karachi on June 29, 2020.(AFP)

Gunmen attack Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi

Monday-'s attack comes more than a week after a grenade was thrown at people waiting outside a government welfare office...

29 Jun 2020 12:52 PM IST

Representational Image. (AFP)

COVID-19 vaccine candidate approved for military use in China

Ad5-nCoV is one of the eight vaccine candidates being developed by Chinese companies and researchers approved to be...

29 Jun 2020 12:21 PM IST

In this image from video, Zumret Dawut, a Uighur from Chinas far western Xinjiang region, holds documents she brought with her, at her new home in Woodbridge, Va., on Monday, June 15, 2020. Dawut says in China, she was forcibly sterilized for having a third child after being released from a Xinjiang detention camp. (AP)

China forces birth control on Uighurs to curb Muslim population

Parents of three or more are ripped away from their families and sent to detention camps unless they can pay huge fines,...

29 Jun 2020 10:18 AM IST

A general view shows Leh, the joint capital of the union territory of Ladakh. (AFP)

China sent mountain climbers and martial arts fighters to LAC before...

China-'s military newspaper reports militia divisions including former members of Mt Everest Olympic torch relay team...

28 Jun 2020 11:26 AM IST

Shrine of Guru Nanak Dev in Kartarpur, Pakistan. (PTI)

Pakistan ready to reopen Kartarpur corridor from Monday

India had temporarily suspended the pilgrimage and registration for the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan in view of...

27 Jun 2020 1:37 PM IST

A Sri Lankan Telugu man Masannage Raja bathes his monkey Raju in Kalawewa, Sri Lanka. (AP)

Sri Lanka Telugu community fears decline of traditional ways

The pause in livelihoods due to COVID-19 has only accelerated the decline of their traditional arts, say community...

27 Jun 2020 10:54 AM IST

Activists of Gujarats Karni Sena organisation shout slogans while holding a poster with the image of Chinese President Xi Jinping during an anti-China demonstration in Ahmedabad on June 24, 2020. (AFP)

Pakistan says they are worried about being dragged into India-China...

The three nuclear-armed neighbours all have historic disputes over high-altitude border demarcation in the Himalayas

26 Jun 2020 3:44 PM IST

Pakistans Prime Minister Imran Khan (L) speaks during the National Assembly session in Islamabad. (Handout photograph released by the Pakistans Press Information Department)

Imran Khan under fire for referrering to bin Laden as martyr

â€˜I will never forget how we were embarrassed when Americans came into Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, martyred...

26 Jun 2020 10:08 AM IST