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
Politics in West Bengal has taken a dramatic turn as the faction led by Uluberia Purba MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, calling itself the "real Trinamool", announced the suspension of party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and removed Mamata Banerjee from the post of party chairperson. The dev
At least eight people were killed in a fire at a coaching centre in Lucknow city in northern India on Monday, a local police officer said. Local media said the death toll was higher and put it at 14, adding that they were mostly students.
China has begun work on the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, situated on the lower reaches of Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo River, about 50km from the Indian border, reports Indian broadcaster NDTV. In response, India is also pushing forward with an initiative of its own – a 11,000MW
A territory-wide shutdown in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has brought daily life to a standstill after the region's deadliest unrest in years left at least 24 people dead in nearly two weeks of protests. The confrontation between local authorities and supporters of the recently banned Joint Awami
Chaiyaporn Arunrasamee hunched over his fishing nets, overlooking the waters of the Andaman Sea, where Thailand's government is proposing an ambitious "Land Bridge" that will ferry goods between ports on opposite sides of the peninsula. "Personally, I don't want it to happen at all," Chaiyaporn sa
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
