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An IAF helicopter flies in the sky, in Leh, Ladakh. (PTI)

Troops taking effective measures to disengage and ease tensions: China

China's People's Liberation Army was seen removing tents and structures at patrolling point 14, the sources in New Delhi...

6 July 2020 4:17 PM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping. (AFP)

China detains professor who criticised Xi over coronavirus

Xu Zhangrun, a rare outspoken critic of the government in China's heavily censored academia, was taken from his home in...

6 July 2020 2:16 PM IST

This photo taken on July 5, 2020 shows staff members wearing protective clothing spraying disinfectant in the compounds of a school ahead of the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), known as Gaokao, in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province. (AFP)

China issues warning after suspected bubonic plague case, forbids...

The bubonic plague, known as the 'Black Death' in Middle Ages, is a highly infectious and fatal disease spread mostly by...

6 July 2020 11:44 AM IST

US Customs and Border Protection detained a shipment of weaves believed to be made in a Chinese detention camp. The shipment is suspected to be human hair. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)

Hair weaves suspected to be from Chinese detention camps seized

Recent reports say China has its ethnic minorities locked up in camps where they are subjected to ideological...

5 July 2020 12:58 PM IST

In this file photo taken on June 6, 2019 a US military Chinook helicopter lands on a field outside the governors palace during a visit by the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller, and Asadullah Khalid, acting minister of defense of Afghanistan, in Maidan Shar, capital of Wardak province. US President Donald Trump denied on June 28, 2020 being briefed on intelligence that reportedly showed Russia had offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan. (Photo | AFP)

'US-Taliban deal won't ensure that Afghanistan soil won't be used to...

Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, defense officials and Afghan experts say the Taliban is not living up to the...

4 July 2020 10:19 PM IST

In this May 11, 2013, photo, U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz approaches Busan port, south of Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

US sends carriers to disputed South China Sea during Chinese drills

China and US have accused each other of stoking tension in the strategic waterway while relations are strained over...

4 July 2020 12:42 PM IST

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi (AFP)

Pakistani foreign minister tests positive for COVID-19, had contact...

The minister had come in contact with PM Imran Khan in parliament, and also US representative Khalilzad to discuss on...

4 July 2020 10:07 AM IST

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a press conference organised by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, on July 3, 2020 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva.(AFP)

WHO says it was alerted about virus by its own office in China, not...

The UN health body has been accused by US President Trump of being complacent towards China, which it denies

4 July 2020 9:01 AM IST

Shubham Mani Tripathi. (via Facebook)

UNESCO Director-General condemns killing of journalist in Uttar...

Shubham Mani Tripathi was shot dead by two assailants while riding his motorbike back home in Unnao district of Uttar...

2 July 2020 3:56 PM IST

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 1:14 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 China'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 10:46 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)

Pakistani PM accuse 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 10:10 AM IST