Asia

China hits back at US over tariff threats

China on Wednesday responded strongly to the US suggestion that it will significantly raise tariffs if China continues to purchase Russian oil, saying "coercion and pressuring will not achieve anything."

2025-07-30T15:51:27.931657+00:00 IST

MoS Margherita concludes visit to Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa

Union Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita concluded his official visit to Eswatini and Lesotho from July 18-22, and to South Africa from July 23-25.

2025-07-30T15:39:34.683480+00:00 IST

Australia, India, Japan, US declare economic war

Foreign ministers from the Quad nations, Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, convened in Washington earlier this month and unveiled a robust strategy designed to counteract China's coercive influence in the Indo-Pacific, as reported by The Japan Times on July 2.

2025-07-30T13:58:37.965721+00:00 IST

Netherlands: BNM holds protest outside Pak embassy

The demonstration was aimed at exposing Pakistan's ongoing policy of state repression in Balochistan, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.

2025-07-30T13:30:26.821590+00:00 IST

DGBR Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan visits Bhutan to review BRO project

Lieutenant General Raghu Srinivasan, Director General of Border Roads (DGBR), is on an official visit to Bhutan from 28 July to August 2 to review the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) India Project DANTAK.

2025-07-30T13:20:42.701298+00:00 IST

China’s crimes against humanity fuel global markets

Over the past decade, China has escalated a brutal campaign of systematic repression against the Uyghur people, an indigenous Turkic Muslim group native to the region known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or East Turkestan.

2025-07-30T12:18:26.992110+00:00 IST

Ancient whale skeletons unearthed by Russian scientists

These insights will help scientists better understand the palaeoecology of Eurasia's northernmost areas and how past climate events influenced marine life.

2025-07-30T11:47:01.116998+00:00 IST

Bangladesh-US third round of tariff talks begins in Washington

The third round of talks on the Bangladesh-US tariff issue officially began on Tuesday at 2:00 pm US local time, Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Press Wing said in a statement on Wednesday.

2025-07-30T11:09:54.153313+00:00 IST

UKPNP slams Pakistan’s rhetoric on PoJK

The discussion included UKPNP spokesperson Sardar Nasir Aziz Khan and party founder Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, both of whom expressed significant doubt regarding Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar's recent comments at an Atlantic Council event in Washington DC.

2025-07-30T09:40:23.115854+00:00 IST

Taiwan considers chip ban after South Africa capitulates

The South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation announced the changes in the Government Gazette last Monday, stating that the "Taipei Liaison Office" in Pretoria had been renamed the "Taiwan Commercial Office in Johannesburg," while the Cape Town office was similarly renamed.

2025-07-30T09:31:35.855689+00:00 IST

Ural Gold Mining documentary selected for Antares Film Festival

The 2025 production, created by author Ksenia Komissarova and directed by Andrey Porshnyak, with cinematography by Dmitry Golovko, was shot in Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast, one of the country's most resource-rich mining regions.

2025-07-30T09:29:02.964733+00:00 IST

Tibetan singer detained by China after song praising Dalai Lama

According to a statement from the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the India-based Tibetan government-in-exile, the singer, popularly known by his stage name Asang, was taken into custody in early July in Sichuan province's Ngawa region.

2025-07-30T08:33:57.295917+00:00 IST

7 dead, 20 injured in Pak army firing on Pashtun protesters

The protesters had assembled in Tirah Valley to demonstrate against the death of a child killed by mortar fire from Pakistani forces. In retaliation, the soldiers began to shoot indiscriminately at the unarmed Pashtun demonstrators.

2025-07-30T08:15:15.439164+00:00 IST

UNSC Monitoring Team notes TRF's role in Pahalgam terror attack

The Pakistan-based TRF is the group behind the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. This is also the first time that TRF has been mentioned in any UN document.

2025-07-30T07:35:21.766371+00:00 IST

Tibet rocked by second earthquake in a day

As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km, making it susceptible to aftershocks.

2025-07-30T06:42:41.860436+00:00 IST

Japan records waves upto 50cm post 8.8 quake

The warning disrupted railway and air services along the coast and led the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to halt the release of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, as per Kyodo News.

2025-07-30T06:00:00.089039+00:00 IST

Taiwan records surge in Chinese incursions around it's territory

As per the MND, 10 out of 11 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's southwestern ADIZ (Air Defence Identification Zone).

2025-07-30T05:24:41.478868+00:00 IST

Rain in Tibet triggers flood in Nepal, warning issued

The district of Rasuwa, adjoining the Tibetan side which was hit by a flash flood on July 8 had claimed lives of 7 with over a dozen still missing, after Lhende River swept infrastructure near Nepal-China border.

2025-07-30T03:47:40.341338+00:00 IST

Earthquake of magnitude 4.3 strikes Tibet

As per the statement, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km, making it susceptible to aftershocks.

2025-07-30T03:29:27.670790+00:00 IST

Magnitude 8.8 quake struck off  coast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.8 on Wednesday morning rattled across Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, triggering widespread tsunami warnings across the Pacific.

2025-07-30T03:21:00.982226+00:00 IST

India, UK to forge deeper ties under Vision 2035: UK Envoy

Deputy British High Commissioner to India, Christina Scott, stated that the UK-India relationship is poised for significant expansion under the India-UK Vision 2035 roadmap, introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his UK counterpart, Keir Starmer, during PM Modi's visit to the UK last week.

2025-07-30T01:00:15.219000+00:00 IST