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A salesman stands inside a retail store with a sign advertising a sale in New Delhi, India. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo

Bangladesh garment curbs trigger shortages for Indian retailers

Between January and June 2025, India imported $254.44 million worth of apparel from Bangladesh, 3.5% higher than the same period last year, according to International Trade Centre (ITC) and CITI...

Police personnel seen outside the FC lines in Bannu during an operation following an attack by suicide bombers on Tuesday morning. Photo: Bannu police

Suicide bombers attack Federal Constabulary lines in Bannu, Pakistan: official

Model of LNG tanker is seen in this illustration taken May 19, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo

India to raise LNG import capacity 27% to 66.7 million tons a year

The aircraft was on a rescue mission in monsoon-hit northern Pakistan crashed.Photo: X/geotechwar

Pakistan government helicopter crash kills five: police

Myanmar's military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends a press conference following talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, March 4, 2025. Photo: Pavel Bednyakov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

India backs Myanmar military's election plan

Russian President Vladimir Putin and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, October 5, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/ File Photo

Putin to visit India in December, Kremlin confirms

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Photo: Collected

Indian pushes 33 more alleged migrants into Bangladesh: Assam CM

Indian flag is seen in this illustration taken April 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/ File Photo

India submits bid to host 2030 Commonwealth Games

Labourers rest on handcarts in a wholesale market in the old quarters of Delhi, India, August 29, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra/File Photo

India's economy unexpectedly picks up steam, but Trump's tariff effect looms

A Rescue 1122 boat eveacuates people from the flooded area past partially submerged houses, following the monsoon rains and rising water level of the Sutlej River, in Chanda Singh Wala village near the Pakistan-India border in Kasur district of the Punjab province, Pakistan August 29, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

War then water: Pakistan’s border villagers face back-to-back evacuations

Photo: Collected

India’s International Booker winner at centre of political row over festival role

Tripura CM Manik Saha. Photo: Collected

Tripura CM seeks use of Bangladesh river to solve drinking water problem in Agartala

Soyed Noor (centre) and some of the other refugees spoke to the BBC via a video call from Myanmar. Photo: BBC

Rohingya refugees say India forced them into sea, now stranded in conflict-torn Myanmar