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Amir Khan Muttaqi. File photo: Collected

Afghan Taliban foreign minister to visit India for first time

Amir Khan Muttaqi will become the first senior Taliban leader to visit India since they returned to power in 2021 following the withdrawal of the US military.

Hand-woven Tangail Sarees. Photo: Collected

India’s sari trade sees mixed impact from tensions with Bangladesh

File photo of Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Photo: Collected

Shehbaz Sharif says issues resolved ‘amicably’ as deal signed to end unrest in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

Supporters of the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), an alliance of Kashmir civil rights groups, chant slogans as they gather to attend the funeral of men who were killed during a protest following a shutter-down strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Naseer ud Din

Explainer: What happened in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after days of anti-government protests?

Indian Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi at a press briefing. File Photo: Collected

Stop supporting terrorism or risk erasure from map: Indian army chief warns Pakistan

Singer Zubeen Garg on stage. Photo: Hindustan Times

Zubeen Garg's death: Why Assam Police arrested bandmate Shakharjyoti Goswami, singer Amritprabha Mahanta

The skyline of the central business district is seen in the morning in Beijing, China August 21, 2019/Reuters

What is China's K visa and can it compete with US H-1B?

Supporters of the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), an alliance of Kashmir civil rights groups, attend the funeral of men who were killed during a protest following a shutter-down strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS

8 killed in protests in Pakistan's Kashmir

Rohingya refugees queue for water in a camp near Cox’s Bazar. File Photo: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Rohingya urge UN to stop the killings in Myanmar

Rohingya refugees purchase vegetables from a kitchen market at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 27, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine state faces a hunger catastrophe, aid groups say

An illegible prescription by an Indian doctor in Madhya Pradesh state last year went viral. Photo: Chilukuri Paramathama

Indian court orders doctors to write legible prescriptions, citing patient safety

A paramilitary soldier stands amid the debris after a bomb blast near the Frontier Corps headquarters in Quetta, Pakistan September 30, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

Suicide blast targeting Pakistan paramilitary kills 10, officials say

Representational image. Photo: Collected

India to build first cross-border railway with Bhutan