An Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft has crashed and caught fire while landing at an airbase in Assam's Jorhat, killing all five personnel on board, NDTV says. The aircraft went down inside the Jorhat Air Force Station premises around 10am local time during a routine sortie, the Indi
Funeral for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin in Tehran on July 4 and conclude with his burial in the northeastern city of Mashhad on July 9, state media reported on Saturday. Khamenei was killed in Israeli and US strikes on Iran in February. His death marked the end of more than
India has appointed Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth as the next chief of the army staff, with the veteran officer set to assume command on Jun 30 following the retirement of General Upendra Dwivedi. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence cited by Hindustan Times, President Droupadi Murmu approve
Thailand's Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, the eldest child of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, has died at 47, the royal palace said on Friday, after multiple health problems and nearly four years in a coma. The princess was hospitalised in December 2022 after a sudden loss of consciou
A Bangladeshi woman has succumbed to the burn injuries she suffered during in a devastating fire at a hotel in the Indian capital on Jun 3, bringing the death toll to 23. The woman died at a local hospital on Wednesday, reports NDTV, citing police. However, a statement by Deputy Commissioner of P
A Thai court handed out death sentences on Thursday to two ethnic Uyghur men from the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang for a 2015 bombing in the centre of Bangkok that killed 20 people, according to a court statement. The explosion occurred at the Erawan Shrine in the centre of Bangkok, an
An explosion killed seven people early on Thursday in China's southwestern region of Guangxi, local authorities said in a notice, adding that they were investigating its cause, but ruling out a risk from gas pipelines, reports Reuters. Seventeen injured were taken to the hospital, but none were in
An explosion killed seven people early on Thursday in China's southwestern region of Guangxi, local authorities said in a notice, adding that they were investigating its cause, but ruling out a risk from gas pipelines. Seventeen injured were taken to hospital, but none in critical condition, they
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has launched the Land Port Management System (LPMS), a centralised digital platform to modernise operations across the country’s land ports by integrating cargo, passenger and vehicle processing on a single interface, reports bdnews24.com, citing Hindustan Times
At least 13 people were killed, including 11 children, after Pakistan's military launched air strikes in three Afghan provinces, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Wednesday, in a renewal of a conflict that has killed hundreds this year. At least 14 others - all of them childre
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit France and Slovakia from June 13 to 18, the Indian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
More than 5,500 Myanmar refugees living in camps along Thailand's border have found jobs since Bangkok eased employment curbs last year, an approach that offers a regional example, a senior UN refugee official told Reuters. The step came in response to a sharp decline in global humanitarian fundin
Amid continued border standoffs, the West Bengal government claims to have deported nearly 4,800 “illegal immigrants” to Bangladesh, and is holding another 836 in custody pending repatriation. The Indian state’s Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari told a meeting of his Bharatiya Jana
