As a row over the wearing of hijab by Muslim girls billows in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, with ripples being felt across South Asia, India's Supreme Court declared that it was "duty-bound to protect the constitutional rights of every individual, irrespective of the community or religious denomination she/he belonged to"

US President Joe Biden signed an executive order freeing up $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets in the US, splitting it between humanitarian aid for the distressed country and a fund for the September 11 attack’s victims in the US— a long delayed move that united Afghans across the political spectrum in protesting against what they see as plundering of the money that belongs to common Afghans

The Jaishankar-Blinken meeting took place as the White House unveiled its Indo-Pacific strategy, crafted by the National Security Council, that laid down “support India’s continued rise and regional leadership” as one of its objectives

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said the 4th Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting is an opportunity to review the progress made since a vision was laid out at the Quad Leaders' Summit in September last year

India's first homegrown mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is currently under final clinical trial stages, the government said

The United States has reportedly conveyed to senior Nepali political leaders that Washington will be forced to review its ties with Kathmandu if the latter fails to ratify the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) deal under which Nepal will get a $500 million grant to improve its road and transmission infrastructure

M Khairuzzaman, Bangladesh’s former high commissioner to Malaysia, has been arrested by Malaysian authorities, Malaysian Home Minister Hamza Zainudin confirmed

Sri Lankan authorities are planning to promote the picturesque Indian Ocean island country as an option for global couples looking for a destination wedding on a reasonable budget

India's newly-built over nine km long Atal Tunnel has officially been certified by the World Book of Records, as the 'World's Longest Highway Tunnel above 10,000 Feet', said the Ministry of Defence

Taking a defiant stand reflective of Moscow's stance on Ukraine and the current standoff with the West, newly appointed Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov said threats of US sanctions against India will not affect the military-technical cooperation between the two countries as it was the business of "no one else"

Indian military personnel, even if stationed in the Maldives, pose “no threat to civilians’ security”, the archipelago’s top police official said, as opposition parties intensify protests under the banner of the “India Out” campaign. The government this week plans to table a bill seeking to criminalize the campaign which, authorities say, is now threatening Indians working in the country’s service sector

Sri Lanka is in talks with India for the purchase of two Dornier aircraft, Foreign Minister G L Peiris said, as the two countries attempt to boost defense ties

In an event imbued with considerable geopolitical and geostrategic significance, foreign ministers of the Quad grouping are meeting face to face for the first time post-Covid in Melbourne, Australia on Friday to operationalize the arrangement on Indo-Pacific, vaccine delivery, critical and emerging technologies, and global security environment in the run-up to the Quad summit in April-May this year and, possibly, even consider expansion of the four-nation non-military grouping

About eight to nine people, who were among 76 listed as missing by the United States, have reappeared, a senior Bangladesh official said, amid reports that authorities were coercing families to give false testimonies about victims

Quite predictably,  Pakistani ministers, including Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, waded into India’s billowing hijab row in southern Karnataka state terming it a grave violation of human rights