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Post Doklam, China offers to resume military drills with India By Pranab Dhal Samanta, ET Bureau | Updated: Apr 20, 2018, 12.33 PM IST China has reached out to India with an offer to resume military exchanges that it had put on an unexplained hold just before last year’s Dokalam standoff...

Adult Indians are transacting more through their bank accounts and restricting the use of cash, a behavioural shift that could help improve the government’s tax revenues. Four-fifths of Indian adults have opened bank accounts by 2017, compared with just 53% in 2014, when the incumbent...

8 15:41 IST One of the girls had refused a marriage proposal which was the reason behind the attack, the police said, adding that the uncle and his friend are still absconding while the third accused has been arrested. Three girls, including a sister duo, in Pakistan’s Punjab province suffered...

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reports rising forced disappearances, rape and attacks on religious minorities. Pakistani human rights activists rally against missing people in Islamabad [B K Bangash/AP] An independent watchdog has expressed concern over Pakistan's commitment to...

Sources said that Exercise Gagan Shakti was not about learning tactical lessons but focused on checking logistics stamina to build up and sustain the high serviceability levels. IAF Chief, Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa, IAF has achieved unprecedented serviceability levels of 80 per cent for...

One day, China will turn Pakistan into its own “semi-colony,” as it did recently with Sri Lanka. China has been nice to Pakistan, on the surface that is. It has been building the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which will connect Western China with the Indian Ocean, provided of course...

China's BRI initiative hits roadblock in 7 countries: report China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which aims to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes of Silk Road, has hit a roadblock in seven countries, according to a...

PREGNANT singer was shot dead on stage after reportedly refusing to stand up and dance with a fan at a wedding party in Pakistan. Samina Samoon, 24, was allegedly gunned-down by Tarique Ahmed Jatoi while she was performing at the gathering. CENTRAL EUROPEAN NEWS 4 Men throw money at Samina...

? A child was raped in Jammu , no news media is covering it ob tv. What happend to the national level media outrage spamming on rapes? Where is rahul Gandhi's crocodile tears now? I've been on the youtube lurking for a hour to see if any main stream media covered it , literally none Cleric...

Worshipers reading from the Bible at a underground church in Tianjin, China. The Bible is printed in China but legally available only at certain bookstores.CreditGreg Baker/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Ian Johnson April 5, 2018 BEIJING — The Chinese government has banned online...

Chinese sperm bank apparently has a plan in place to make sure its future citizens are good Communists, Newsweek reports. The Third Hospital of Peking University is requiring donors to be loyal supporters of the Communist Party, according to a statement released Wednesday on its WeChat web...

KP Oli arrives in India: Nepal PM to meet Narendra Modi with trade deficit, connectivity likely to be on agenda World FP Staff on Friday on a three-day state visit, was received by Union minister Rajnath Singh. He is slated to hold talks with the top Indian leadership to strengthen the...

Religions should be guided to support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and be subordinate to the interests of the nation, a new government document said on Tuesday, in line with the trend to “sinicise” religions and shake off foreign influence as propagated by President Xi Jinping...

BEIJING — China is facing a growing threat from trained jihadists re-entering the country, security and diplomatic analysts warned, after it was revealed that the number of such people intercepted by the authorities in 2017 was 16 times as high as the year before. The size of the increase was...

China Refuses to Admit It Has a Rape Problem. I Would Know. The Communist Party wants to blame Hollywood and "loose women," instead of acknowledging its own epidemic levels of sexual assault. In the fall of 2004, when I was 19, I studied abroad in the beautiful coastal Chinese city of...

Authorities in a Tibetan area of China’s western Sichuan province have sentenced a Kirti monastery monk to five years in prison on charges related to a self-immolation protest against Chinese rule, according to sources in the region. Lobsang Sangye, 36, was handed the jail term on March 28 “in...

Print edition | China Mar 28th 2018 WHEN the authorities manage to lure or drag home a fugitive accused of corruption, they crow. But they are quieter about their equally successful campaign to repatriate Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group from Xinjiang, in China’s far west. Many Uighurs...

China’s failing satellite is just one example of a massive space debris problem By Rick Noack Email the authorMarch 29 at 11:36 AM 1:18 Chinese satellite will soon come crashing down into Earth The Tiangong-1 satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere uncontrolled around April 1...

In this Thursday, March 22, 2018 photo, Pakistani militant leader Fazlur Rehman Khalil, left, arrives at his compound in Islamabad, Pakistan. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Khalil, whose group Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, now known as Ansar-ul Ummah, is on the US designated...

To Catch Up With India, Pakistan Needs Modi's Magic Panos Mourdoukoutas , CONTRIBUTOR / AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) Pakistan’s leaders need to borrow Narendra Modi’s magic to lift their country up. India and Pakistan have made...