India has become the world’s most populous country, overtaking China. The latest data from the United Nations has revealed that India’s population is now 142.86 crore, compared to China’s 142.57 crore. With this development India has for the first time ranked at the

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the country has finished building its first military spy satellite and gave the green light for its launch, state media said. The report of its completion comes on Wednesday, about a week after Pyongyang launched what it said was a new

The murder of a gangster-turned-politician has put the spotlight on killings of those in custody in India. Rights activists have raised questions over their deaths, and claim it has emboldened a climate of lawlessness. Live on television on Saturday night, former Indian politician Atiq

An investigation was under way Wednesday after a fire ripped through a hospital in China’s capital Beijing, killing 21 people, state media reported. Emergency response teams first received word just before 1 pm (0500 GMT) Tuesday that a fire had broken out at the Beijing

The United Nations is ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to pull out of Afghanistan in May if it can’t persuade the Taliban to let local women work for the organization, the head of the UN Development Program said. UN officials are negotiating with the Afghan

Iran has officially invited Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz to visit the country, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday, after the two regional rivals agreed to end years of hostility following a China-brokered agreement in March. After years of bad

South Korea, the United States and Japan staged joint naval missile defense exercises on Monday to improve responses to North Korean threats, as Pyongyang accused Washington of ramping up "nuclear blackmail" with military drills. The three nations agreed at talks in

Two men have been arrested for allegedly operating a Chinese "secret police station," US prosecutors said on Monday. The center was allegedly located in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood. The two New York residents face charges of conspiring to act as an agent of

Fighting between the army and paramilitaries in Sudan has killed around 200 people and wounded 1,800, left hospitals damaged and medical supplies and food in short supply on Monday after three days of urban warfare. The European Union ambassador to Sudan was attacked in his home in

One more patient undergoing treatment after suffering from sunstroke at an award function in Navi Mumbai has died, taking the toll in the incident to 12, officials said on Monday. Earlier on Sunday, at least 11 people died due to sunstroke as the 'Maharashtra Bhushan' award

At least four people have been killed and 28 wounded in a shooting at a “Sweet 16” birthday party in the United States, according to police and media reports. The gun attack in the small town of Dadeville in the southern US state of Alabama took place late on Saturday

Myanmar’s military has announced plans to release 3,113 prisoners, including 98 foreigners, to mark the country’s traditional New Year. The statement by the military on Monday did not specify whether those imprisoned for opposing its power grab in February 2021 would be

Unidentified assailants have killed 40 people and wounded 33 others in an attack on the army and volunteer defence forces in northern Burkina Faso, the government said in a statement. A detachment of six soldiers and 34 civilian volunteers “was the target of an attack by

Summary Explosions and gunfire have been reported this morning in Sudan's capital Khartoum, with fighting in the country in its third day. Almost 100 civilians have died during the violence, according to the Sudanese doctors' union. The fighting follows a rift between the

A former Indian politician convicted of kidnapping has been shot dead live on TV along with his brother. Atiq Ahmed, who was under police escort, was talking to reporters when a gun was pulled close to his head in Prayagraj, also known as Allahabad. After the shots were fired on

At least 12 inmates were killed in clashes that broke out in a prison in the Ecuadoran port of Guayaquil, the prosecutor's office said Saturday, the latest deadly violence to rock the city's penitentiary system. The dozen inmate deaths occurred after a bloody confrontation

Gunmen stormed a water park in central Mexico on Saturday and killed six adults and a child, unleashing panic among those present, local authorities said. Police "arrived at the scene where they found... three dead women, three men and a seven-year-old minor, in addition to one

Iran issued a stern warning to people who are encouraging women to remove their hijabs  on Saturday. Deputy Attorney General Ali Jamadi warned that "the crime of promoting unveiling will be dealt with by the criminal court, whose decisions are final and unappealable,"

Fighting in the Sudanese capital has raged after a day of deadly battles between paramilitaries and the regular army, leaving at least 56 people dead and nearly 600 wounded, according to a doctors' union. The union released its latest casualty toll early on Sunday. A total of 56

Gunfire and explosions have been heard in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after days of tension between a notorious paramilitary force and the country's army. The dispute centres around a proposed transition to civilian rule. Reuters is reporting that gunfire has been heard