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June 2, 2025 10:10 AM

South Korea’s political crisis from martial law to snap election

South Koreans will go to the polls in a snap election on Tuesday, voting for a president to replace Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted from office in April after his brief martial law attempt sent shockwaves through the country. Here are key events from ...

June 1, 2025 12:24 PM

Search continues for Indonesia quarry collapse victims, death toll at 17

Indonesian authorities will continue searching on Sunday for eight people trapped in a rock collapse at a quarry in West Java, where the death toll has reached 17 with six injured, the search and rescue agency Basarnas said. The toll, as reported by...

May 30, 2025 10:50 AM

Nepal’s royalists demand restoration of monarchy dumped 17 years ago

Thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former king rallied in the capital Kathmandu on Thursday, calling for the restoration of the constitutional monarchy that was abolished 17 years ago, amid rising unhappiness with successive elected governments. F...

May 28, 2025 12:24 PM

Operation Sindoor outreach: Sanjay Jha-led Indian delegation reaches Indonesia

The Janata Dal (United) MP Sanjay Jha-led delegation arrived in Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta, on Wednesday after successfully wrapping up the Singapore visit, conveying India's unequivocal stance against terrorism. "The All-Party Parliamentary ...

May 26, 2025 4:43 PM

Operation Sindoor outreach: Indian delegation briefs South Korea’s leaders, think tanks

An all-party Indian parliamentary delegation led by Janata Dal (United) MP Sanjay Jha on Monday met with Yun Ho-jung, Chairperson of the Korea-India Parliamentary Friendship Group, and several South Korean lawmakers and think tanks. The delegation b...

April 22, 2025 9:15 AM

India and Saudi Arabia hold meeting of High-Level Task Force on Investments, ahead of PM Modi’s visit

India-Saudi Arabia High Level Task Force on Investments held its meeting in Riyadh on Monday, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Jeddah from April 22 to April 23. According to the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia, the meeting was co-chair...

April 16, 2025 9:16 AM

Earthquake of magnitude 5.9 strikes Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan

In the early hours of Wednesday, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The tremor occurred at 04.43 a.m. IST (local time), with the epicentre located at latitude...

April 9, 2025 11:18 PM

CPEC Projects Stagnate: Lost Momentum and Lingering Questions

The daring hijack of the Jaffar Express in March 2025 by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has once again brought the region’s resentments into sharp focus. The assault, which claimed at least 90 Pakistani soldiers’ lives and saw around 450 p...

April 9, 2025 9:00 AM

Stocks slide in Asia as recession fears pummel sentiment, oil hits four-year lows

Stocks in Asia extended a slide on Wall Street on Wednesday as President Donald Trump looked set to press ahead with whopping 104% tariffs on Chinese goods, pummelling oil prices to four-year lows as global recession fears gripped financial markets. ...

April 8, 2025 9:17 AM

China criticises Trump tariff ‘blackmail’ as market turmoil settles

China said it would not bow to "blackmail" from the United States as a global trade war touched off by U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs showed little sign of abating on Tuesday even as battered stock markets steadied. The rebuke came a...

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