BEIJING: In a historic first, China on Wednesday publicly unveiled some of its most advanced military technology, including hypersonic missiles, electronic warfare systems, and unmanned combat platforms, during a massive military parade in central Beijing.

BENGALURU: The Indian women's team left for Hangzhou, China on Saturday, as the squad gears up for the upcoming Women's Asia Cup 2025. The 20-member team is being led by captain Salima Tete, who is looking to win the tournament to secure India's spot for the FIH Women's Hockey World Cup 2026 next year.

TOKYO: Terming it as "crucial" for a multi-polar Asia and a multi-polar world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that stable, predictable and amicable ties between India and China can have a positive impact on regional, global peace and prosperity.

SHIMLA: India and China have agreed on reviving traditional border trade with the latter agreeing in principle to reopen the Shipki-La crossing in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district, the state government said on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: India’s goods exports to China surged 20 per cent year-on-year in the first four months of Financial Year (FY) 26, touching $5.76 billion (about Rs 50,112 crore), according to official data.

LUANDA: Angola has been gripped by widespread unrest, after local taxi drivers' protests over soaring fuel prices spiraled into a violent anti-China demonstration shaking the nation’s political and economic foundations, a report has cited. It stated that the turmoil was marked by looting, destruction, and a mass exodus of Chinese nationals.

NEW DELHI: National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Tuesday said that India-China relations have witnessed an "upward trend" and that the borders have remained peaceful since the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kazan last year.

NEW DELHI: In a sign of further thawing of economic ties, China has assured India to address its major trade concerns, especially around the import of rare earths and fertilisers.

NEW DELHI: A 59-member Indian contingent has arrived in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China to participate in the 3rd “Belt and Road” International Youth Boxing Gala – U17/U19/U23 International Training Camp & Tournament.

WASHINGTON: The United States formally designating the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and the Majeed Brigade as Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTO) and US President Donald Trump announcing US investment in oil exploration in Balochistan not only reinforces America's commitment to counter international terrorism but also limits China's ability to use security concerns as a justification for expanding its physical presence in the region under the cover of protecting the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a renowned international analyst reckoned on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: As the geopolitical situation witnesses a turbulent phase with ongoing wars between Russia and Ukraine, and Israel and Palestine, the tense situation in the Middle East and Europe, the situation in the South Asian region is witnessing an era which could have serious repercussions for the security of the region.

BEIJING: China on Friday said that it welcomes Prime Minister Narendra Modi's participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit that is scheduled to take place at Tianjin, later this month.

BEIJING: Rescuers have brought out nine people from debris, with two of them confirmed dead, after a rain-triggered landslide trapped 14 people in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, on Wednesday morning, local authorities said on Thursday.

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that "mercenaries" from China and Pakistan, along with a few other nations, are fighting alongside Russian forces in the ongoing conflict.

BEIJING: China, which has for long claimed of having a "noninterference" foreign policy and not providing direct military assistance to nations engaged in conflict, reportedly supplied batteries for surface-to-air missiles to Iran in exchange for oil during the recent conflict with Israel, a new report has cited. This comes after Beijing is already facing heat for its alleged involvement in Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine and backing Pakistan in its conflict with India in May following the heinous April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

NEW DELHI: Following the Supreme Court's sharp observations on Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi's remarks about the Indian Army and Chinese incursion, BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya launched a scathing attack on the Congress MP, calling him "China Guru" and accusing him of repeatedly making "irresponsible statements" that undermine India's national security.

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Saturday called for the resumption of dialogue between India and Pakistan, while strongly criticising the current foreign policy approach of the Indian government, saying it "lacks both principles and direction." He also said that India continues to maintain hostility towards Pakistan while being open to talks with China.

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Wednesday derided and mocked the Opposition for ‘alerting’ the government about the China-Pakistan fusion, particularly during the recent military face-off under Operation Sindoor, thereby posing a grave threat to India’s national security.

BEIJING: At least 38 people were killed as torrential rain wreaked havoc across China, forcing evacuations and disrupting traffic.

HARBIN: Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province activated a red alert for rainstorms on Friday.

CHANGZHOU: Double Olympic medallist Indian shuttler PV Sindhu entered the round of 16 of China Open after beating sixth seed Tomoka Miyazaki of Japan 21-15, 8-21, 21-17 on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU: At least eight people died and 19 have gone missing in the flash floods that struck Nepal's Rasuwa district, according to Nepal Police.

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar will be on a three day visit to China starting July 13, sources in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) revealed on Friday.

BEIJING: China's Ministry of Water Resources on Thursday activated a Level-IV emergency response to flooding in the northwest Qinghai Province amid a new round of heavy rainfall.

GUIYANG: Six people have died due to severe flooding in Rongjiang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, according to local flood control authorities.

CHINA: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) members to unequivocally condemn the evil and dastardly Pahalgam terror attack in India's Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and said that any act of terrorism is "criminal and unjustifiable."

NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in a renewed diplomatic push against Pakistan-backed cross-border terrorism, is set to call on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to intensify efforts to curb terrorism during a two-day conclave in China's Qingdao, beginning Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: In yet another sign of growing Bangladesh-China-Pakistan cooperation, a first trilateral meeting was held in Kunming in China's southern Yunnan province on June 19 where all three countries vowed their commitment to a "shared" future.

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan stood firmly alongside China and Russia against the United States at the Security Council despite Pakistan's military chief Asim Munir's hyped lunch with US President Donald Trump and the flurry of speculation about Islamabad and Washington getting closer.

NEW DELHI: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Congress party, alleging that its foreign policy was "family-oriented" and had long-term negative consequences for India and its neighbours.

PHAGWARA: Charuvrat Bains, a student from Kapurthala, has achieved a remarkable feat by earning the honour of representing India at the 18th International Earth Science Olympiad 2025 to be held in China.

NEW DELHI: India and China have agreed to expedite steps to resume direct air services between the two countries and also hold talks to resolve trade issues.

MUMBAI: The domestic benchmark indices extended their winning streak to the fifth consecutive session on Tuesday, opening with some moderate gains. However they trimmed early wins to trade a tad lower.

NEW DELHI: Hitting out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has called for an investigation into the alleged historical ties between the Nehru-Gandhi family and China. He based his demand on “revelation” from declassified documents related to the 1961 Belgrade Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

NEW DELHI: The government plans to conduct more stringent reviews of some major investment proposals from Chinese companies to invest in India, which could delay the go-ahead for these ventures, according to an NDTV Profit report.

NEW DELHI: Asia's oil demand outlook for 2022 is starting to look dimmer than what it was a couple of months back, as China's strict lockdowns aimed at battling the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic overshadow the positive oil demand signs emerging from the rest of Asia, said S&P Global Commodity Insights.

CANBERRA: Australias Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has accused China of attempting to interfere in an election set for next month, saying a recent security deal with a nearby Pacific nation suggested nefarious motives.

NEW DELHI: India's smartphone shipments declined 1 per cent (on-year) to reach over 38 million units in the March quarter this year amid ongoing component shortages and demand decline, a new report showed on Thursday.

LONDON: Shares in the US and Asia have fallen on fears about the impact of lockdowns in China on global economic growth, BBC reported.

COLOMBO: "A friend in need is a friend indeed" is the saying as it goes. The dictum is in full play as India has offered Sri Lanka an additional $500 million to help it to import fuel while it is in an advance stage of discussion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout package.

BEIJING: "The blood of the Chinese people should not be shed in vain and those behind this incident will pay the price," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

TOKYO: Chinese smartphone brand Honor, which was spun off from its parent company Huawei in 2020 to evade US sanctions, is currently using at least 40 per cent of its parts from American companies like Qualcomm and Micron, media reports said on Monday.

HONGKONG: Investors are ditching China at an unprecedented scale as a cocktail of political and business risks, and rising interest rates elsewhere, make the world's second biggest economy a less attractive place to keep their money, the media reported.

NEW DELHI: The domestic market for tempered glass screen protectors for smartphones -- dominated by China -- is expected to reach 550 million units with a value of Rs 25,000 crore ($3.4 billion) by 2025, generating at least 75,000 jobs in the country, a new report showed on Wednesday.

BENGALURU: The Indian software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry is likely to reach $100 billion in revenue by 2026, superseding China as the second largest SaaS nation in the world, a new report said on Tuesday.

London: China's consumer spending fell and unemployment rose last month as Covid lockdowns confined millions of people to their homes, official figures show, BBC reported.

BEIJING: China is cracking down on gaming and in a new order, the country's National Radio and Television Administration has said that online platforms will be "strictly prohibited" from live-streaming games that have not been authorised by the government.

SHANGHAI: China's economic hub Shanghai has reported 3,590 confirmed locally transmitted Covid cases and 19,923 local asymptomatic carriers, the municipal health commission said on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, on Friday held discussions on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the situation in South China Sea.

BEIJING: Chinese state media has said that the Sharif family of Pakistan has been promoting bilateral ties for a long time, and cooperation between the two nation could be even better than under former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

DHARAMSALA: A Turkish-American professional basketball player and an outspoken human rights activist, Enes Kanter Freedom, received the 2022 Geneva summit Courage Award in recognition of his "heroic efforts to sound the alarm on China's brutal human rights abuses".

BEIJING: A 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Xingwen County of Yibin city, southwest China's Sichuan province at 7:50 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).

NEW DELHI: Army Chief General M.M. Naravane, Vice Chief Lieutenant General Manoj Pande and other top military commanders reached the headquarters of the Central Command in Lucknow on Wednesday to review deployments of troops in the Western and Northern borders.

NEW DELHI:As China takes a strong stance on its Zero-Covid policy, implementing lockdowns in major manufacturing hubs across the country, supply disruptions in the PC market will occur and India is again expected to get the short end of the stick, according to a new report.

NEW DELHI: China does not want unipolar Asia and respects India's traditional role in the region, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told National Security Advisor Ajit Doval during their meeting in Delhi, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

COLOMBO: Days after India announced a $1 billion line of credit to financially strapped Sri Lanka, China on Monday said that Beijing is studying Colombo's request for a $2.5 billion financial assistance.

BEIJING: A passenger plane carrying 133 people on board crashed in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday, said the regional emergency management department.

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will warn his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that he will face "costs" if Beijing rescues fellow authoritarian ally Russia from intense western sanctions aimed at punishing Moscows invasion of Ukraine, the Guardian reported.

BEIJING: The owner of KFC and Pizza Hut said sales plunged by 20 per cent in the first two weeks of March as a surge of new Covid cases spread across China, BBC reported.

NEW DELHI: Chinas Foreign Ministry has called on the US to disclose information on Pentagons alleged biological laboratories in Ukraine "as soon as possible".

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI:Success stories of J&K women folk have inspired fairer sex across the globe to follow their footsteps and chase their dreams. The females in Jammu and Kashmir are proving their mettle in every field and are leading from the front. They don't want to look back as they are out to conquer the world.

NEW DELHI: A Western intelligence report indicated that Chinese officials in early February requested senior Russian officials to wait until after the Beijing Olympics had finished before beginning an invasion of Ukraine, CNN reported citing US officials as saying.

NEW DELHI:China could invade Taiwan after seeing the West's response to Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, a leading historian has warned, Daily Mail reported.

LONDON: In a prickly interaction with a moderator, S Jaishankar, Indian External Affairs Minister, remarked in a panel discussion at the annual Munich Security Conference that ties with China are going through a very difficult phase.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought the National Medical Council's (NMC) response on a plea filed by a group of Indian medical students studying in a Chinese university seeking judicial intervention to help them to pursue their practice in India as they are stuck due to non-availability of visas from Chinese authorities.

NEW DELHI:India on Wednesday strongly objected to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is proposed in the illegally occupied parts of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian government also rejected the reference of Kashmir in the joint statement released by Pakistan and China.

HYDERABAD: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has used the 'Statue of Equality' as ammunition for his latest salvo against the Prime Minister and his 'New India' and 'Atma Nirbhar' slogans. The Prime Minister had on Saturday dedicated to the nation the 216 foot tall statue of Swami Ramanujacharya at Hyderabad.

NEW DELHI:A leading US Senator has criticised China for selecting a soldier engaged in Galwan Valley clashes with Indian troops to promote the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.

BEIJING: A researcher has found that the mandatory Beijing 2022 Olympics app for iOS and Android is reportedly collecting and sending audio to Chinese servers.

NEW DELHI: One of the most galling atrocities committed against Uighur women in the camps is the Chinese Communist Partys (CCP) forced sterilisation campaign.In multiple reports, The Washington Times has said that women receive shots leading to their infertility underscores the CCP's ultimate aim: to eradicate the Uighur race.

GENEVA: Following a 70-year effort, the World Health Organization on Tuesday certified that China is malaria free, a notable feat for a country that reported 30 million cases of the disease annually in the 1940s.

BEIJING:China's national observatory has renewed a yellow alert for rainstorms across vast stretches of the country.
Until Wednesday afternoon, heavy rains and rainstorms are very likely in southeast parts of the Sichuan Basin and provincial-level regions, including Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi, the National Meteorological Centre said.

NEW DELHI:Monday was a big day for China and also the Communist Party of China (CPC). The country operationalised the Baihetan Hydropower Station in Southwest China, the largest hydropower project in the world.

NEW DELHI: Pakistan and China are collaborating to conduct an information war campaign globally -- with China providing finances and guidance -- through launching an international news media platform, intelligence agencies stated.

NEW DELHI: Amidst border standoff with China, the Indian Army holds a commanders' conference led by General Manoj Mukund Naravane from Thursday to review the operational situation at the border with China and Pakistan. Indian Army Commanders' Conference is an apex level biannual event, which formulates important policy decisions through collegiate deliberations.

BEIJING: China on Thursday successfully launched the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12, which is expected to send three astronauts to its space station core module Tianhe for a three-month mission.

BEIJING: At least 13 miners who were trapped in an iron mine in China's Shanxi province due to flooding have dies, local authorities said on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said that the Code of Conduct negotiations will lead to positive outcomes in the South China Sea as tension escalated in the waters, causing concern all the nations in the region and beyond.

NEW DELHI: China is conducting the final trials of Xian H-20 strategic stealth bombers at its Hotan airbase, opposite eastern Ladakh, as the US pulls out its troops from Afghanistan and the border standoff with India continues.
Top government sources said that H-20 bombers are aimed at ending the edge India acquired through the acquisition of Rafale jets.

BEIJING; A gas explosion in China's Hubei province on Sunday has killed 12 people and injured more than 100 people others, including 39 in serious condition, local authorities said.

DHAKA:Bangladesh has signed a pact with China to buy the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque.The Health Minister said this during a programme at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases here.

WASHINGTON: European businesses have seen higher margin in China than globally and are increasing investment in the country following its quick recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic last year, according to a report.

NEW DELHI: China has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with plateau operations capabilities and plans to deploy it at Line of Actual Control with India in Kailash mountain range, sources said.

NEW DELHI: India's much-hyped 'vaccine diplomacy' has fallen apart after the country failed to send the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to many of the beneficiary countries which had received the first dose.

KARACHI: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the cordial relations between the country and China are growing deeper and stronger day by day.
Speaking virtually at the inauguration ceremony of the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Unit-2 (K-2) on Friday, Khan said that May 21 marked the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and apart from the ever-strengthening bilateral ties, the people-to-people contacts have also become deep-rooted with the passage of time, reports Xinhua news agency.

WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump has been sued by a Chinese-American civil rights group for calling Covid-19 the "China virus".
The complaint, filed in a federal court in New York on Thursday by the Chinese Americans Civil Rights Coalition (CACRC), alleged that Trump's use of that phrase and other similar racist slurs is baseless, since the origin of the coronavirus is not yet determined, and that the former President's conduct harmed the community, reorts Xinhua news agency.

BEIJING:At least three persons were killed and 27 others injured after a series of earthquakes jolted southwest China's Yunnan Province, officials said on Saturday.
The quake was felt in all 12 counties and cities of the prefecture, with Yangbi Yi Autonomous County being the worst hit, Yang Guozong, Party chief of the prefecture said, Xinhua news agency reported.

ISLAMABAD: As the agricultural sector of Pakistan is the backbone of the national economy, the country's officials and experts believe that the enhanced cooperation under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) can greatly help Islamabad modernise the sector, ensure food security and improve local people's livelihood.

SHANGHAI: China and Pakistan will hold a series of activities later this year to mark the 70th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties, officials said at a seminar here.

KATHMANDU:Nepal received a second shipment of China-donated oxygen cylinders as the Himalayan country is continuing to face an acute shortage of medical oxygen supply for a growing number of Covid-19 patients.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland has reported four new locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases in Liaoning province, the National Health Commission said on Sunday.Besides the four locally-transmitted cases, there 14 new imported infections registered in the mainland, Xinhua news agency quoted the Commission as saying.

BEIJING: China has approved one more inactivated Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, according to an announcement by the developer of the jab.
Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co., Ltd., the developer, said on Friday that the vaccine it developed has started related work for Phase III clinical trial, reports Xinhua news agency.

BEIJING: The lander carrying China's first Mars rover has touched down on the Red Planet, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) confirmed on Saturday.

CAIRO: Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed has said Egypt will start locally producing China's Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine in June.
During a press conference in Cairo, the minister on Sunday said that the first 2 million doses will be produced in June at the plants of the Egyptian Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (VACSERA), Xinhua news agency reported.

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Pakistani Prime Minister on Health Faisal Sultan said on Monday that the local production of China's single-dose CanSino Covid-19 vaccine is about to commence in the country to facilitate its vaccination drive.

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that as Chinas role in the world grows, the differences between Beijing and Wellington are becoming "harder to reconcile".

WASHINGTON: An increasingly confident China is acting "more aggressively abroad", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a televised interview."What we've witnessed over the last several years is China acting more repressively at home and more aggressively abroad. That is a fact," dpa news agency quoted Blinken as saying in a CBS News interview broadcasted on Sunday.

YANGON: A batch of Covid-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government has arrived at the Yangon International Airport, according to a release from the Chinese embassy.

NANJING: Eleven people were killed and dozens injured after strong gales struck east China's Jiangsu Province, the provincial authorities said on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: China on Friday assured India that it would do everything to support the latter's fight against the second wave of Covid pandemic which has taken a heavy toll on the country.

SARAJEVO:A batch of China-donated Covid-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm has been delivered to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), said the Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH.

DAMASCUS:Syria on Saturday received a batch of Covid-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government to help combat the pandemic.
Syrian Health Minister Hasan al-Ghabash and Deputy Foreign Minister Bashar al-Jaafari, as well as Chinese Ambassador to Syria Feng Biao, attended the reception ceremony at the international airport in the Syrian capital Damascus, the Xinhua news agency reported.

NEW DELHI: A glacier burst near India-China border in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Friday night, authorities said adding that there has been no loss of life or damage reported yet.

BEIJING:China is expected to produce more than 3 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses this year, an official said on Tuesday.
The country's current production capacity is around 5 billion vaccine doses annually, said Zheng Zhongwei, head of the working group for vaccine development under the State Council joint prevention and control mechanism against Covid-19, Xinhua news agency reported.