MUMBAI, Aug 6 - A court in India convicted former top magazine editor Tarun Tejpal of raping a colleague 12 years ago and sentenced him to ten years in prison, in a high-profile case that had fuelled debates about the safety of women in Indian workplaces.
NEW DELHI, Aug 6 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Instagram recently with selfie-style videos shot after hours in a bid to win over young voters following Gen-Z protests that highlighted growing frustration over a lack of job and education opportunities.
BEIJING, Aug 6 - Chinese authorities have marked the deaths of two Coast Guard personnel on a \"frontline\" mission in the South China Sea in August last year, the first apparent acknowledgement of fatalities in the high-profile collision between Chinese vessels.
HuidaGene Therapeutics attributed the 2025 death to acute respiratory distress syndrome as part of a severe immune reaction.
Airport operations have returned to normal, with all flights and passenger services running as scheduled.
Online backlash reflects a growing demand for authentic experiences among travellers rather than destinations designed for virality, experts say.
The government began authorising legal employment for longstanding refugees in 2025.
ANDONG, South Korea, Aug 6 - Hwang Hyun-guk, a 69-year-old farmer in South Korea, often gets engrossed in tending his pepper crop. These days, however, as the country grapples with its worst heatwave in years, drones flying overhead urge him to take breaks, cool down and work
KINSHASA, Aug 6 - Congo has banned exports of copper concentrate and cobalt concentrate in a major escalation of its drive to force domestic processing and retain more value from its vast mineral resources, according to a new government order reviewed by Reuters on Thursday.
Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Djamari Chaniago’s call for calm came on the heels of a study by Monash University Indonesia on a possible disinformation campaign where videos of past demonstrations in the country had been recirculated online.
Japan’s government said Pyongyang had fired what could be a ballistic missile.
SEOUL, Aug 6 - North Korea fired an unidentified projectile on Thursday toward the sea to the east of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea's military said.
Australia would purchase up to 450 of Lockheed Martin’s AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missiles.
Aug 6 - The head of the Apostolic Church in Armenia, widely regarded as the world's first Christian nation, and six other senior clerics will go on trial on Friday in the latest escalation of a bitter struggle with the government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
The carrier will overhaul its in-flight meal service later in 2026.
Experts say the El-Nino weather pattern has contributed to weaker-than-normal monsoon rainfall, affecting paddy sowing and raising concerns over production.
Tarun Tejpal was accused of raping a journalist in the lift of a five-star hotel during an event in November 2013.
SEOUL, Aug 6 - North Korea has deployed troops, weapons and now, according to a Ukrainian intelligence official, a missile unit to support Russia's war against Ukraine, marking Pyongyang's most significant involvement in a war since the 1950s.
Mayu Yoshida, 32, said her actions were due to stress building up in her daily life.
Dhaka warned the event undermines efforts to reset bilateral ties between the neighbours.
Andhra Pradesh state has denied allegations that the project was fast-tracked without weighing risks.
VISAKHAPATNAM, India Aug 6 - Work to build Google's planned Indian data centre hub is in full swing, with a hillside above the site stripped to red earth and terraced into steps, but mounting opposition from environmentalists is creating hurdles for the U.S. tech giant's $15
Heavy rains driven by a tropical depression raked the country’s north and forced school closures.
The measures also reveal a divide between large employers and smaller businesses.
The venture highlights a broader trend across Korea’s gaming arena.
360 terawatt-hours of clean power in China went untapped from Jan to June, enough to power Mexico for a year.
Tejpal, who has denied the accusations, can appeal against the verdict in India's Supreme Court.
Democratic Action Party delegates will decide on Aug 16 whether its ministers should resign from Malaysia’s unity government. The outcome could result in a snap general election, party members and observers say.
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has been leading an effort to normalise relations with Myanmar, both bilaterally and through the 11-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
An analysis found that the product contained poppy seeds and tested positive for morphine and codeine.
NEW DELHI, Aug 6 - Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, the key maritime chokepoints in the Gulf, reduced significantly on Wednesday from the previous day, shipping data showed.
President Lee Jae Myung Lee ordered ministries and local governments to mobilise all available personnel and resources until the heatwave eases.
HANOI, Aug 6 - Vietnam's top leader, To Lam, will visit Australia and New Zealand next week as part of efforts to bolster partnerships and enhance cooperation in science and technology, the government said in a statement.
The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, wider tensions in the Red Sea and the oil price spikes these circumstances occassion have made one thing abundantly clear: Gulf countries and global markets are dependent on vulnerable maritime routes. But while national leaders and diplomats
Umit, a female Amur tiger, has been released as part of a programme to restore the animal's population, which was wiped out in central Asia a century ago.
South Korea’s heatwave is expected to peak over Seoul on Aug 6, with the capital forecast to hit 39 deg C.
Shakib Al Hasan had joined the virtual event organised by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia.
DHAKA, Aug 6 - Windows were smashed and petrol bombs hurled at former Bangladesh cricket captain Shakib Al Hasan's residence after he joined ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s first public media interaction since her 2024 removal from power, in which she vowed to return in
Valar Atomics, a three-year-old microreactor developer that has a forged a close relationship with the Trump administration, has raised $1 billion in its Series B funding round as investors increasingly bet that the White House’s overhaul of nuclear regulations will clear the
The drills were intended to review the command structure, inter-agency coordination and emergency response mechanisms.
Mark Parton faced a complaint this week alleging that he sent the message to a sex worker.
The military leader has been barred from western countries and accused of crimes against humanity.
RedotPay rejected the allegations, saying the company would “respond through the appropriate legal process”.
Footage of the bootleg smartphone game, called “Fortress Defense,” leaked on Chinese social media.
Songs generated entirely by AI through simple text prompts remain ineligible.