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In a decision that will adversely impact hundreds of thousands of Indian students in the US, the federal immigration authority has announced that foreign students pursuing degrees in America will have...

Alarmed at China’s stranglehold over supplies of masks, gowns, test kits and other front-line weapons for battling the coronavirus, countries around the world have set up their own factories to ...

The Dalai Lama made a bid for music chart stardom on on Monday, his 85th birthday, with the release of an album of mantras and teachings. Inner World kicks off with the track One Of My Favourite Pray...

Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer whose haunting scores to Spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly helped define a cinematic era, has died, his lawyer said ...

A meeting of Nepal’s ruling Communist Party to decide the political future of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli was postponed until Wednesday, a day after the Chinese ambassador met a senior leader...

A Chinese company on Monday signed a $1.5 billion agreement with Pakistan to set up a hydropower project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. ...

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi held a telephonic conversation on Sunday during which they agreed on disengagement of troops along the Line of Actual Control ...

Books by prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy figures have become unavailable in the Chinese-ruled ciy’s public libraries as they are being reviewed to see whether they violate a new national secur...

China has opened a new territorial dispute, this time with Bhutan by staking claim to tracts in eastern Bhutan that include the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary adjoining Arunachal Pradesh. Bhutan had prot...

The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists...